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The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01

end that neither of these measures had
been passed, the tension was suddenly
relaxed, and the feeling of relief was
well nigh universal, and was not
bounded by party lines.
What the Fifty-first congress has done
can be stated in few words:
1t has passed the most reckless and
indefensible pension bill ever put on
the statute book, together with private
pension bills by hundreds, and has
thereby put in train a probable deficit
in the treasury during the coming year.
Such deficit can be met only by is
suing bonds or imposing new taxes.
1t has passed the most reckless and
indefensible tariff bill ever known in
our history, and has embodied in it a
new principle more vicious and unre-
publican than the tariff itself, that of
bounties for the production of partic-
ular article of commerce.
1t has increased the purchase of sill
yer bullion from $4,000, 900 to 1850, 900
per month, and by SO doing has ex-
posed US to the danger of a change in
the common standard of value from
silver to gold. 1t is plain now that
there was no need of this legislation,
even in a political point of view. If
the same tirmness in resisting the de-
mands of the silver-mine owners had
been shown last June that was shown
in February the country would have
been spared this danger and this drain
on its resources.
1t has brought into the union before
their time six new states with twelve
senators, in order to keep the repub-
lican party in power after it had lost
the numerical majority in the country.
1t has passed a postal subsidy bill of
which it may fairly be said that no
such bill was necessary in order to get
the foreign mails carried. 1t is relief
to know that much worse bill was
defeated.
1t has introduced the new principle
in legislative procedure that if quo
rum of the house does not respond to
the roll-call, the speaker may count one
by eyesight, and transact business on
the presumption that his eyesight is
good. This practice, it is safe to pre-
dict, will expire with the congress in
which it originated.
The only good things to be set down
to the credit of this congress are the
passage of copyright bill, badly Grip
pied indeed but better than nothing,
and bill for the relief of the supreme
court. Credit must be allowed for a
vast deal of mischief not done, and par
ticularly for the defeat of the force bill.
This was a case where one bad measure
killed another. The free-coinage bill
killed the force bill, and the force bill
helped to kill the free coinage bill.
The greater part of the mischief ac-
complished by the Fifty-frst congress,
and which will give it a bad name in
history, was due to Speaker Reed, who
''put through the Mckinley bill and
the other measures which wrecked his
party as though he were the pitcher
in game of baseball.-N. Y. Post
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
WSc Own River Bottoms.

Judge Yorng, of the Fourth judicial
Circuit of Florida, has decided that the
State can not demand royalty of one
dollar per ton on phosphate taken from
the beds III the rivers of Florida. The
Ocala Union commenting on the decis-
ion assumes that it may be warranted
by precedent, but it declares that the
people ultimately will repeal laws that
deny them their just rights. 1t thus
continues:
1t is the people after all that control.
They endure much, but when they break
through the conservative restraints"
kings tremble on their thrones. and
judges perform their duty. The process
through which it is done are slow, but
the rights of the masses are being ex-
tended and the few restricted. The
same processes that gave all the lands of
England to so few of her population are
at work in this country, and if not
checked will produce the same results,
and they are not likely to be checked
by Judge Young's decision.
These phosphates have been forming
in the soil and river bottoms in all the
ages of the past, and in the formation of
which we do not suppose that Mr.. AL
bertus Vogt, Mr.. George w. Scott and a
few others were alone in the thoughts
of the Divine mind, but we are orthodox
or unorthodoX enough to believe that
the Divine worker intended these form
ations and deposits for the common en-
joyment Of all mankind.
Owing to the legislative action and
judicial determinations, this has not
been the case, and the only thing left
whereby the people, in their collective
capacity, could derive the least benefit
from these gifts of a wise and benef-
cent Creator, was in the riparian rights
left to the State, whereby the State, for
the benefit of all the people thereof,
could levy a tax of one dollar ton on
all phosphates taken from the bottom
of navigable streams, and even this the
decision of Judge Young denies them.
And the Times-Union says that all the
people will hail with delight this timely
decision. The exaction OF this small
tariff, the Times-Un says, would
have crippled and perhaps stified this
industry and would have proven a great
detriment to the State. How much do
these men, who have gobbled up all the
river bottoms of the State, want I'd
make anyway? Do they want all the
earth and the fulness thereof?
| The cost of gathering the phosphate
from the river bottoms is merely nom.
inal, and delivered atany shipping point
is worth from $12 to SIS per ton, and in
the interest of this class of men. the
Times Union whines that the payment
of the pitiable sum of dollar a ton
into the treasury of the State would
ruin them all and kill the industry. This
is sheer nonsense and can not deceive
blind man. The people make and un
make the laws and they should see
that all the people derive some of the
benefits of these immense deposits
which can only be regarded as divine
1 gift.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
Taxing Unseen Coal.

The Supreme Court of Illinois has
just sustained the right Of James u.
Baker, collector of St Clair County, to
collect from the Consolidated Coal Com
pany, OF ST. Louis. tax on an assess
ment made by Assessor Stookey, of st.
Clair township, on coal owned by the
company, under the surface of that
township. The present case involves
the tr:fling sum of fifty dollars, but the
effect of the decision is of great inn
portance to Illinois, and, says dis.
patch from st. Louis, sit will bring in.
to the treasury thousands of dollars
each year in taxes from the vast coal
fields that have never been taxed, and
relieve the farmer from paying such
heavy taxes on the surface, where there
are coal fields beneath, and will estab
lish precedent for assessing coal
lands all over the State of Illinois" !"
just SO, and if our Illinois friends i'm.
prove their opportunity, the change in
taxation, that will follow will teach the
farmers who have ignorantly clamored
against the taxation of land values
that the farmers not only do not own
all the land, but that the land they dc
own is the least valuable and will be
but lightly taxed under system that
makes land values the sole basis of tax.
alton.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
! NEW LINCOLN ANECDoTE.
Old Abe Left the Whetstons on tho Gate
DOat

Old Abe Left the Whetstone ON tho Gate
Post.
Abraham Lincoln was perhaps tho
best man in the country in his day to
remember men and to place them with
out hesitation in the environment where
he last saw them. He was first Of all a
politician, and the politician who for
gets is lost When he was comparar
lively young man and candidate for
the Illinois legislature he took dinner
with Sangamon county farmer, and
after the meal the two stood at the
barnyard gate talking and whiting.
Lincoln's knife needed sharpening, and
the Yankee in him prompted him to
sharpen it. He walked to a tool-box
the farmer had nailed just inside the
wagon-shed, took from it a milestone
and came back to the great gate.
where he stood again and be.
gan sharpening his knife. One
post of the gate was very high
and a rod from the top supported the
extended weight OF the gate. A man
came along the road in a wagon, going
in the direction Lincoln wanted to
travel, and he bade his host good-by
and clambered in the venicle-intent,
no doubt, on getting another vote.
Years afterwards, when he was presi.
dent, soldier came to call upon him
at the White House, and at the first
sight the gaunt chief executive said:
"Yes, remember you. You used to
| In.
ner with you one time when l was run.
ming for the legislature. Recollect we
stood together out at the barnyard
| gate, and sharpened my knife?"
"Ya-as," drawled the farmer soldier,
land wherever did you put that whet-
stone? l have looked the whole place
over dozen times, but never could
find it after the day you used it. We
lowed, mebby, you had took it along
with YOU"
| No. said Lincoln, looking serious
as if the matter were as important as
the recent defeat OF Pemberton, mo,
put it on topo that gate post-the high
one"
''Welly' exclaimed the visitor, mob
by you did. Couldn't nobody else have
put it there, and mono Of US ever though'
to look there for It"
He went on homo and when he 60
there one of the first things he did wa
to climb up on the gate and look for tn
milestone. It was there, right wher
it had lain for fifteen years. The hon
est fellow, adoring his chief, wrote
letter before his furlough expired, tel
ing the president the milestone wa
found and would never be lost again.
Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01

Cure" let every physician continue to
strive to his utmost to relieve suffering,
and, if possible, to exterminate con-
tagious disease, but let us ever bear ir
mind that every cure, to be really and
grandly successful, will ultimately have
to be supplemented by the George
cure. Waiter Mendelson.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
SITTING DOWN ON HIM.
The Unfortunate Man Who Seeks
to Do the World a Favor.

H f r e s one
s ort Of m an
whom the world
never gives half
a S h o w, an d
h e is, at tn e
same time, the
very man who
S C e ks, in the
goodness of his
heart, to do the
world a favor.
I have frequent
ly met him, and
though l may
h av e offered
h j m no direct
encouragement
l have always
heen his friend
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
The New Treasurer.

The appointment of Mr.. Foster Is
secretary of the treasury gives rise to a
lot of unpleasant gossip. Here is re-
publican expression of opinion: "Gov.
Foster is born politician He dearly
loves caucus and the rattle of cam
paign. He goes into the treasury at a
time when all the offices connected with
it are filed, so that he need make no
enemies on this account, and can occu-
py his busy mind in keeping things NOV
ing on the political chess board. If
there is to be any fresh political move
ment on the part of the president and
his friends, Calico Charlie will be in it
for all he is worth. That much may be
relied upon in advance. AS profess
sional politician, he is, indeed, Young
Map-Proud-of- His Gall. ~ Albany Ar
gus
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
POLITICAL OPINION

Whatever the sentiments of Mr.
Reed may be the rest of the country is
profoundly thankful that the next
house of representatives will be de-
Lucrative body. Albany Argus.
We have had fifty-one congresses,
but in only thirteen has the speaker
had to depend on strict party vote for
the honor of vote of thanks. Reed
makes the thirteenth.-Wheeling Reg
ister
"A billion of the peoples dollars
appropriated by spendthrift congress!
How much of this bread cast upon the
political waters will return to the g. o.
p.'s campaign fund in 1S92?-Chicago
Times.
The president is said to be max
ing an effort to strengthen himself in
Indiana. 1t is always an unfortunate
indication when politician or any
other man is driven to the necessity of
strengthening himself at home rather
than with. strangers. Detroit Free
Press
The theory of the reciprocity
clause in the Mckinley law seems to be
that the doctrine of protection is per-
fectly just when applied by the United
States against other countries, but un-
reasonable and very much to be re-
sented when applied by other coun-
tries to the United States.-N. Y.
World.
The principal blunders of the Re-
publicans consisted in the pressing of
the election measure and the passage
| of the Mckinley bill in the shape in
which it appears on our statute books.
For both these transgressions the party
was adequately punished at the polls
last November.-St. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat. (Rep.)
Among the things Senator Quay
neglected to deny was that he helped
to bribe .Voice" employe to steal
'The Voice" mailing-list. AS his com.
mittee only paid two hundred and fifty
dollars for it, and as he had several
much larger steals to deny, he doubt
less thought this was of minor impor.
tance. The Voice.
The republicans have certainly
done one thing well. They wiped out
the surplus with exceeding neatness
and dispatch. A few years ago there
was alarm over the amount of money
accumulating in the treasury. There is
no necessity for such fears now. 1t
will be many long day before there
will be another surplus. When they
/ got rid of it they also took care that we
should not see its like soon. 1t has
gone to come no more for years.-Lou.
isville Courier-J ournal.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
True to His Word.

She-You promised to love mo and
bestowed all your earthly goods upon
me when we were married, and You
spend all your time at the club and all
your money upon yourself.
He-But l have kept my promise re-
Ngiously, for ever since we. were mar
ried we have been one.--Chicago Times
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01


.s al and true rocks. Don't 60 away
fyng with you false idea of this
erea. e.,' and stupendous work of nature.
so,. 80 al Il wool and straight as a spotted
s speech seemed to hurt most of the
;n. SsDple Instead of waiting to inquire
ms0 No ms motive, they got mad, and fat
as;s. a rom Harrisburg beckoned him
as sue shook his fist under his nose and
sasped: ~ 'N >'
!, say, You internal lunkhead, / can
"a mock Your eyebrows off in about four
secondsr' . va - ''''' -0
b.r gu can? Is it possible! But what
ean done? l amt the feller what
vailed You a liar
parn your buttons, but what did
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01
PlTH AND POINT.

-Full-bloom-the convivially-colored
nose. Washington Post.
AS the world goes now, the man who
loses his grippe is not wholly lost.-N.O.
Picayune.
"A lie will go o long way, but the
sender usually has to pay the freight
n. Y. Herald.
AS o proof that he loves one woman,
man must swear that he hates ten
Atchison Globe.
Troublesome employees can be dis
charged, but it Is different with trouble
some debts.--Pittsburgh Chronicle.
1t is one of the easiest things in the
world to economically lay outthe money
you never will have.-Boston Tran
script.
Every heart lnoweth its own Bit
terness. Many a man who looks happy
is wearing shirt his wife made.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
DE Mascus-"Why did he call it
collection of fugitive verses?" st. Ago
dore-''Probably because they escaped
from the pen. ST.. Joseph News.
-Rhymers Relationship to the Muses.
-''Rhymer is wonderful poet. He
seems Il brother to the muses." "Yes.
He has wooed them all, and they have
apparently agreed to be sisters to him."
IN. Y. Sun.
Money Talks.-Nelly-"Don't you
think, Grace, dear, that Mr.. Snowpate
is man of very agreeable speech ?"
Grace-"Indeed / do, Nell. His income
is two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars year."
-Wickwire-"There never were 30
many chances as now to get good in
come out Of small fortune" Yabs-
ley--"What I'd like is to get a good
fortune out of small income. ."-lndi.
annapolis Journal.
IA Necessary Preliminary.-Lummix
crushing in)-"If you're going to play
football to-day it's time you started.
Hurry, now!" Skimgullet-"I'll be
ready in minute. I'm just signing my
last will and testament"
-Pedanticus-"I mean to so live that
when l die all the great cities Of the
earth will quarrel over the question OF
which was my birthplace" Witticus-
Eyes, each one will lay the blame on
some other. milwaukee Sentinel.
-Woman-bless her bright eyes--can
endure physical suffering with more for
titude than the strongest man, and she
can miss d train without filling the de-
pot with words that don't sound nice;
but she can't pass milliner's window
without stopping. Rams Horn.
The Lesser Evil.--Leezer (at tho
morgue) "Shykes, can't stand this.
Let's get out" Shykes -" Agreed"
Leezer (on the outside) Tough,
wasn't it?" Shykes (ighting cigarette)
lawful (puff), Leezer, hor--- where
are you going, Leezer?' Leezer-'T
am going back to the morgue. Chi
cago Times.
An Average Signer. = Caller =.
''Thank you, sir. I am very glad to
have your name on our petition--very
glad indeed, sir. Good da-" Bust
ness Man (who has just signed the pc
tition)-"But, hold on. What's your
hurry? Let me read that petition"
Caller-"This petition? Why, you have
just signed it," Business Maxwell,
you numbskull, that's why I want to
read it."-Good News.
i .
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-01

If you would save this Republic, if
you would save society, if you would
preserve free government to the end OF
time, unjust taxation must be de-
stroyed.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
From ERJOe.

Regular correspondence
We are glad to note that the fam
lily Of Mr.. E. J. Blount is improv-
ing.
Themill owned by Mack Wade
was badly damaged by the recent
freshet.
Messrs. j. P. Dillon and G.. r.
Vickers are visiting friends on
Sulphur Greek.
Esquire Hicks, Of Big Sandy,
was estimating the wealth of the
ninth district last week.
Miss Margaret Cheatham has
gone to Springville, Tenn, to in
structa class in instrumental music.
Miss Esther Mckenzie returned
home last week, after short visit
to her sister, Mrs: d. w. Stoekdale.
The Tennessee River is rising
rapidly, and, Judging from the ex-
cessive rainfall, it will doubtless
cover the bottoms.
The second session of the Farm
er's and Laborer's school will be-
gin Monday, February l6, 1891.
and will continue eight months
w. B. Vickers is the teacher. Glad
to see Lick Greek coming to the
front on the school question.
ENLoE, February Is, 1891
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
From FdirUieaC.

Regular correspondence
Several members Of M. M. Bea-
toms family have been sick for the
past week, but are now all improv-
ing.
Ed Roney was taken quite sick
with neuralgia of the stomach last
week, but at this writing is conva-
lescent.
The young folks made storm
party" atJohn Cooper's last Friday
night which was greatly enjoyed
by all the participants.
Us. Doty gave a candy break
ing one day last week, which was
pronounced quite a nice affair by
those who were present.
w. H. Brumager, of this, the
ninth, civil district, has COW that
dropped twin calves about a month
ago. While on this subject I viii
also mention that John Sawyer
who lives on the Blanton mill farm
in Henry County, has a COW thai
dropped a calf at seventeen months
old, and again at twenty-eigh-
months old dropped twins. AL
are alive and healthy looking.
FAIRyIEw, February II.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20; 1891
4 EOYD UANG ER.

Some Of the leading newspapers
of the country are urging Congress
to not adjourn without removing
the possibility Of evil or dispute in
the Presidential election in 1892,
arising from a misunderstanding
of the new apportionment law.
The new apportionmentb bill says
chat latter the Sd Of March, 1898,
She House of Representatives shall
be composed Of $50 members" and
5he Constitution assigns to each
State a number of Presidential
electors equal to the whole num-
Der ofSenators andRepresentatives
50 which the State may be entitled
in the Congress-"
The Presidential electors will be
chosen in November, 1892, and dc
their work on the first Wednesday
Of December, 1892" The Congress
in existence at that time will be
the Fifty-second and composed Of
1872 members. Not until the Sd Of
March, 1898, will the States be en-
titled to the number of Represen.
tatives prescribed by the new ap
portionment,bill. The question i:
will they. be entitled to electors
according to the~old OF the new
apportionment. A simple declar
atory statute by the present Con.
gress would remove all doubt anG
probably avoid a dispute Of greater
danger to the tranquility Of the
country than that Of 1877, whe1
TILDEN was counted out.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
From ATeGdne.

Regular correspondence
HI. r. Pierce is quite sick at this
writing.
j. F. Pierce, Of Paris, is visiting
at home again.
W. P. Redick went to Big Sandy
last Thursday.
Alex. French, Of Bowling Green,
KY, returned home last week.
J. N. Pierce is erecting a new
dwelling on his farm near Tonnes
see River
J. f. Melton and Amos Spence
Of Way, came over on business the
18th instant.
Mrs. Tabby Evans and Miss Mol
lie Cheatham, of Enloe, were visit
ors at II. R. Pierce's this week.
Rev. D. A. Ross delivered a very
interesting sermon at Sulphur
Creek last Saturday, after which
he held quarterly conference, and
gave what he called a " fifty-cent'
talk.
AREADNE, February IL.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
From Big Sandy.

Regular correspondence
Horace Rushing, Of Areadhe, was
in town this week.
Mrs. III. M. Robins is visiting rel
atives at GAINESVILLE.
A. N. Lindsey, Of Faxon, was in
Big Sandy this week.
j. f. Pierce, of Paris, was down
last Sunday to see some one.
The post-ofice has been moved
to the 7. W. Floyd house, near the
Alliance store.
Mrs. I. E. Barnes is visiting her
father-in-law, John A. Barnes, on
Ramble Greek.
W. D. Whsatley left last night
for Memphis, where he has been
engaged as travelling agent for the
Democrat Publishing Company.
His work is from Memphis toLou-
isville.
George S. Wheatley, section fore
man at Danville, with B. w. Hus-
sey, and Henry Fitzsimmons, all
section foremen, were here remov-
ing the many cross-ties that had &C
cumulated in our town, this week.
Professor Mitchell, has quit his
school here and is teaching the
writing school unfinished by w. d.
Wheatley. He contemplates leav-
ing here and seeking a school else
where, as his school here would not
| Justify him to continue.
BIG SANDY, February II.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20
TRUSTEES SALE.

BY authority of a trust deed executed to
me on the 18th day of December, 1890, by
M. G, Ford, E. w. Sales, J. G. Ford, E.
u. Summers, M. V. Loveland, f. M.
Wright, NJ. E. Summers, S. G. Ford, NJ.
V. Sales, and A. V. aargrow, and duly
registered in the registers Office of Ben
ton County, Tenn, in book DID, on pages
01-2-3; will on
Monday, March rs, 1885,,
at the east door of the court house, in the
town of Camden, Tenn, offer for sale to
the highest bidder for cash in hand, the
following described tract ofland lying in
the third civil district of Benton County,
Tenn, range s, section 8, containing 1907
acres, being the tract purchased by John
T. Ford at sale Of the A Bum land, and
bounded on the north by the lands Of
Witt French, on the east by lands of the
Jesse Johnson heirs, on the south by
lands of j. G. Ford, and west by the lands
OF w. D. Summers. This sale will be
made to satisfy note for $l08.27, given.
on the 18th day of December, 1890, and
due one day after date, by said M. G.
Ford and others to B. f. Hatley and r.
L. Mitchell, as administrators of the es-
4, tate of A. H. Mitchell, deceased. Sale
within lawful hours.
This the 18th day of February, 1890.
G. B. GREER,
IA Trustee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-02-20

Notwithstanding the short crops
and low prices for peanuts the peo-
pie have come forward and paid
their taxes promptly, as the exhibit
shows that but little more have
been put out than at previous years.
Mr.. Barnes has been very dill
gent in the discharge Of his duties,
and it is generally conceded that
we have never had a more faithful
and industrious public servant.