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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30

ties after they are passed. Let those
who would follow make their own way.
With increase of traffic comes use of
wheeled vehicles, and roads are widened
and smoothed as much as may be neces-
sary to allow passage when the condi-
tons Of weather are favorable. This is
the evolution of the common wagon road.
AS population increased and traffic
grew roads improved in some countries
until, where wise forethought was COM
bined with great governing power, the
public highways centuries ago reached a.
nearness to perfection never since sur
passed, perhaps never equaled, by any
people who had none of the aid given to
modern mechanics by steam or explo-
sives, and it is not clear that any nation
which has such helps has ever surpassed
the roadmaking of those ancients.
Growth of civil and of military power
brought need of broad highways over
which couriers could travel rapidly,
armies move quickly and the plumber of
conquered countries be transported cas-
lily to increase the power of the conquer
ors and add to the wealth, comfort and
home nests whence rapacious birds of
prey swooped upon their victims.
Such were the great roads of Memphis,
and of Babylon, and of the Roman en-
pire. Such was the evolution of the
wonderful highway system of that dauat-
less and wise nation of Americans who
four centuries and more ago had roads
which have never since been equaled in
extent or in workmanship by any others
In the western world and have never
been surpassed by any of modern days.
Yet our need of such perfect high
ways is incomparably greater than
theirs could have been. The aggregate
of the distances we have to move the
products of our farms, forests and fac
tories over wagon roads is vastly greater
than theirs was, and our climate and
soil make our need Of well drained, hard
and smooth roads greater than theirs
could have been.
The empire of the Incas had 10, 1000, 900
inhabitants. In the United States are
more than 60, 100000 people justly proud
of their work in subduing the wilderness,
of the progress they have made in art
and in science and even of the govern
ment they have, and they haul millions
of tons of bulky things to and from their
farms each year over roads that are
worse than those of any other great civ
ilized nation. They have more products
to move and farther to move them over
common roads than has any other ma
ton, and they pay in money, labor and
time an enormous toll-a premium on
gross incompetency in the management
Of great public interest, trust In
which every member of this great fam
lily has life interest and direct concern.
And yet the Americans are rich and
enterprising people. They have been
quick to learn in other matters from the
experiences of other nations. Why,
then, should they not have at least as
good roads as those other nations have.
D. E. VERAs,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
A FINISHING BLOW.

Elsewhere in this issue of The Dem
ocrat is given the news that the gov
eminent of India has suspended silver
coinage.
The announcement of the fact that
the Indian council had passed an act
for the immediate closing OF the In
dian minis to the free coinage OF sill
yer created a sensation in financial
circles throughout this country, and
called out much comment upon its
effect in shaping our future financial
legislation. In discussing the matter
the Milwaukee Journal of June 27
says:
Apparently the most destructive
bomb that could have been projected
into the free silver camp is that which
has been fired by the India council by
and with the consent and approval Of
the British government in closing the
minis of India TO the white metal. 1t
must have its effect throughout the
civilized world and particularly in the
United States where we have been
buying on government account since
the passage of the Sherman act 1900
900, ounces of silver month, though
the price in the markets Of the world
has been declining all the time. The
Indian blow against the silver will
still further depress the price, as it
contracts the field in which silver can
be coined into money.
"What is to be the result in this
country? That is the question that
our financiers will have to consider.
In few weeks congress will assem-
bic in special session to consider what
legislation is necessary in financial
way, and this action in India is very
opportune, as it will give the states
men and the bankers, the tinanciers
and politicians, an opportunity to con-
slider the matter carefully from the
new stand point. We must now all
cease to be partisans, either Of politics
and silver, and act as patriots IN the
discussion and solution of this new
question"
The public good demands careful
and considerate action. The action
of the India council puts new aspect
on the situation, and will greatly
effect all plans for Its solution. We
must keep in step with the civilized
world in the matter of what shall be
be money, and in what relation the
two metals heretofore used for that
purpose shall stand. 1t looks now as
though silver has received a finishing
blow in SO far as it has had pretension
to be in the same class as gold as a
money metal. If the decision shall be
that it has been outclassed, then we
must abide the decision and place it
on its proper level. The destinies of
the great American republic are at
stake, and the issue must be manfully
and patriotically met"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
Good Roads Gospel.

There is no gainsaying the proposition
that bad roads are deadener to bust
ness, to development, to material prog
ress, and the southern states that are
now considering in what way to encour-
age immigration in that direction could
do nothing better than enter into con-
certed movement for the construction of
a highway system on permanent and
substantial lines. There is no invest
ment that will pay more largely in ad-
vancing property values, building up
trade and inviting capital and settle
ment. The better the roads the more
people will there be to travel over them.
Washington Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
NO GROUND FOR COMPLAINT.

NJ GROUND FOR COMPLAlNT.
That affairs in the Wisconsin build
ing at the Worlds fair are well man.
aged, is a fact which we believe is
conceded by all well posted, right
thinking people. The management
has, however, been, adversely CRITICS.
ed by those who seem to know little
or nothing of the real condition of
affairs. Replying to such criticisms,
The Milwaukee Telegraph says:
GAS will be seen by the list of
names printed. each day hundreds of
Wisconsin people register at the Wis
consin home on the Worlds fair
grounds. Many of these hundreds
eat their lunches there. Even though
they did not eat their lunches there
it is reasonable to suppose that
a thousnd people, for that many have
visited the Wisconsin building in one
day, on several occasions. it would be
reasonable to suppose that some dirt
and dust would accumulate in spite of
active efforts on the part of the small
force Of attendants retained to look
after the place. These facts should be
kept in mind when little whippersnap-
pers snarl about there being dust and
litter at the Wisconsin building.
Take any home in Milwaukee, or any
business place, and let a thousand
people visit it and the chances are that
it weuld be little ruffled? Then let
half of these people eat their lunches
in house or place of business and it
would look still more as though there
had been some one there. the ex-
IRENE dudes might feel little timidty
in sitting down in such place, but
man or woman of sense would scorn
to criticise the management of the
home for such cause, and the people
and papers who are criticising the
state commissioners should blush
when they think, and they certainly
think if they have any machinery for
that purpose, how inexcusable their
criticisms have been and must con-
tinue to be.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song
A purer medicine does not exist and
it is guaranteed to do all that is claim
ed. Electric Bitters will cure all dis
eases of the liver and kidneys, will re-
move pimples. Boils, Salt iRheum and
other affections caused by impure
blood. Will drive Malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure
all Malaria fevers. For cure of Head
ache, Consumption and indigestion,
Try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfac-
ton guaranteed. or money refundedt
Price Scots. and $1.00 per bottle
w. 81. Prideaux's Drug Store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
HIGHWAYS OF THE WORLD.
Oar Own Poor Roads Are without Par
allel In the History of Civilization

O~ Own Poor Roads Are without Par
aIlel In the History of Civilization.
Painless wildernesses are myths. Every
habitable part of the world has its roads
Across the frozen plains of the far north,
among the peaks of rugged mountains,
over broad and grassy prairies, through
rich valleys and in the depths of tropic
forests man has for centuries had his
established roads.
Many Of these are marked by signs SO
faint that the eye.of civilized man can
scarce discover them. With increasing
use they become moremarked until they
are 80 wide and smooth that the blind
could follow them.
Where men have beasts of burden
their passing hoofs widen and smooth
the trails, and bride paths are made.
That the packs may'pass freely branches
of trees are Topped off here and there,
trees lying across the trail are cut away,
easier grades are dug in some ascents,
and rocks are occasionally removed
when the burde1ed animals can neither
get over nor around the obstruction.
Few care to remove or to lessen difficult
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30

within twenty million dollars year
the amount that will be collected
under the protective tariff scheme.
Whether there will be q corruption
fund in the way Of surplus or the
government borrowing money to sus-
tain itself, depends on the amount of
foreign goods our people purchase.
Notice right here that the high tax
party. straining every nerve to prevent
the importation of goods, is Gripping
the government by cutting off its
means to meet expenses. There is
no use trying to dodge this by cod
ding the people with catch phrases,
"pauper labor" developing our re-
sources" etc. The more fully pro-
lection" obtains the more certain the
need of resort to direct tax or tax
upon incomes to cover the expenses of
the general government. To divert
the attention from the logic of its
policy protectionists charge the Demo
Gratis whose aim is to extend trade,
with favoring direct tax or tax upon
incomes. 1t was the ass you remem-
Der, that dressed itsely in the lions
skin to brighten the little animals.
Not greatly to our credit is it that
this is the only country whose ability
to meet it's expenses depends upon the
fiuctuating resources of foreign trade.
ALI other countries raise money for
their government expenses fairly and
squarely by taxing the people honestly
to get it. 1t is saying what is in every
reasonable mans mind to say that we
should have system of finance by
which the tax taken from the people
can be adjusted to the expenses. If
more is needed this year we should be
able to increase the tax for the year,
just as city or county or state would
do under like circumstances, and when
the emergency is passed, decrease the
rate of taxation again.
1t is vain to hope for this 50 long as
our law makers regard the public as an
ignorant over grown child to be petted
today and bullied tomorrow. AS it
now is. the politicians before an cleo
ton call together the manufacturers;
take their subscriptions to the cam
paign fund; turn the financial and
commercial interests over to them,
and coolly inform the Taxpayer that
the protected interests" and not the
government, have vested right" to
fix the rate of taxation and veto any
attempt to reduce the tax; that a pro-
tective tax when once established
" shall be touched only by its friends"
In the good time coming statesmen
will be in the majority on the Ways
and Means committee of the Ameri-
can Congress, and they will say to the
people, elf you want $5OO,0O0,0O0
government, tax yourselves for il"
Up this moment the politicians
haven't had the nerve to say that to
the people.
Believe me, the American people will
honor with no sparing hand the men
who have the courage and sagacity to
undertake and carry out thorough re-
form of our financial system, SO that
the public revenue may be independ-
ent of the amount of goods our people
buy of foreigners, for they do not,
and never did, want their government
to be bankrupt one year and be gorged
with surplus the next year.
F. M. DYER.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
Legislators Slow to Act.

The agitation for the better roads has
not yet accomplished its purpose in edu-
eating public opinion up to the stage of
demanding improved highways in tones
that our legislature will not presume to
disregard. In the meantime some edu-
cational work can be done by individual
townships improving the highways with
in their boundaries, but road improve
ment on system needs a larger field
and freer scope. This cannot be OBJ
tanned until we secure the necessary leg
islation. Philadelphia Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
THE PEOPLE PAY THE COST.

If mans living expenses vary one
year with another does he continue to
to take from his income or active cap
ital the same amount for that purpose
or do his expenses mark the amount
of money he lays aside to that end?
For example, if $1,000 covered his ex-
penses last year, and $1,000 will an
swer for this year, does he take from his
income or business $1,000 this year?
You say no; most people are only too
glad to put the 5000 difference to
other and profitable use. No sensible
man commits himself knowingly to a
system of income the expense which
takes from his control the power to
vary it as his needs vary.
This being true of matters private,
how is it when applied to the expenses
OF the government9 When your county
board meets one of it important
duties is to find the amount needed
for the next years expenses and to
vote the tax to meet those expenses,
the county clerk having laid before the
board the facts for that purpose. The
sums required to meet the expenses of
State government are certified to the
County Clerk by the Secretary of State
and upon this data the tax is levied.
So of your city government, the expen-
ses are the measure of the tax the
people are called upon to pay. In
each case the tax is adjusted to the
expenses, and moreover, disaster
awaits the city council, county board,
or state administration that ventures
to place upon the people a tax greater
than will cover expenses.
How is in the matter of expenses of
the government at Washington which
requires millions of dollars yearly to
meet its expenditures where the city,
county, or state requires thousands
of dollars.
Does the governments need for
vary from year to year? Certainly it
does; in the nature of things it must.
Have we system such as the city, a
county, or state has by which the
money collected from the people is ad-
justed to the governments expenses?
Would that it were so, but in shame
be it said, that the men and the party
who have had uninterrupted control
for years of the nations finances,
meantime parading pompously as
as statesman, as being the party of
progressive Ideas" have been unable
or unwilling to give the country this.
This is the situation at the present
time: the largest part of the money
the government may use for its expen-
ses are derived from duties on i'm
ported goodsi nor can any one tell
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
The Season of the "Sizzard.r

From The Erie Herald.
The "sizzard," in contradistinction
the word BLIZZARD" is term now to
used in the northwest to describe
those days when the sun takes off his
mask and looks at us with both eyes
at once and the mercury runs up to
the top notch of the thermometer. 1t
is very appropriate and expressive
word to use. When the atmosphere
tains a superabundance of carolic,
when the bricks in the sidewalks seem
so many live Goals; in fact, when all
naturebegins 10 "sizz," then know for
a certainty that ''sizzard has arrived.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
The Farmer Can't See 1t.

The Importance of good roads is not
appreciated by farmers. They do not
seem to understand that one of the great
obstacles to their prosperity is the al
most impossible condition of the high.
ways. 1t is fact well worth noting
that wherever there are good roads the
farms have a thrifty appearance and
the farmers are prosperous.-Sav
News
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
A Friend

Wishes to speak through the Register of
the beneficial results he has received
from a regular use of Ayers Pills.
He says: 81 was feeling sick and tired
and my stomach seemed all out of order.
tried number of remedies, but none
seemed to give me relief until I was in
duced to try the old reliable Ayers
Pills. have taken only one box, but
feel like new man. 1 think they are
the most pleasant and easy to take of
anything ever used, being so finely
sugar-coated that even child will take
them. / urge upon all who are
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
The law in regard to the destruction

The law in regard to the destruction
of noxious weeds was amended by
the last legislature. The number of
weeds declared to be noxious has been
increased. and instead of a fine
imposed for not destroying them when
notified by the weed commissioner,
the expense of their destruction be-
comes a tax against the land.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
More Is the Shame.

The state of New York has never ex-
pended a single dollar for the permanent
improvement of her roads nor for the
collection or distribution of information
which might add to the knowledge of
her people in the construction and main
tenance of the common highways
Good Roads.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-30
In Need

of a laxative to try Ayers Pills.
Boothbay (Me.), Register.
Between the ages of five and fifteen,
I was troubled with a kind of salt
rheum, or eruption, chiefly confined to
the legs, and especially to the bend of
the knee above the calf. Here, running
sores formed which would scab over,
but would break Immediately on NOV
ing the leg. My mother tried every
thing she could think of, but all twas
without avail. Although a child, read
in the papers about the beneficial effects
of Ayers Pills, and persuaded my moth
er to let me try them. With no great
faith in the result, she procured
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-08-16
The Washington Forests.

"To the average easterner the forest.
of Michigan and Wisconsin seem to of.
fer an inexhaustible supply of timber
Yet these two states taken together
have barely one-quarter as much tim
ber as is standing in the forests ot
Washington, writes Hon. F. l. Vas.
sault, in "The Forests Last Strong.
hold" one of the attractions of Neas
Peterson. THAT great timber belt ex-
tending along the western slope of the
Alleghanies from the gulf to the lakes,
and covering twenty times the area ot
the timber belt of Washington, has to-
day less standing timber than is in
this far western state. The govern
ment reports place this timber at $780,
365 million feet. At the average rate
of their work the sawmills of Washing
ton will require fc~~ centuries to con-
vert the forests into lumber.
"And one would say that if any in
strument of human ingenuity could
accomplish this feat in less time it
would be the modern steam sawmill.
The thing that most impresses the
stranger who visits one of these insti-
tutions, after he has recovered from
the shock of seeing the immense waste
that is around him, is the marvellous
ingenuity with which human labor is
dispensed with and the wonderful per-
fection of labor-saving machinery"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-08-16
Directors meetinp,

The Board OF Directors of the Portage Co
| Agricultural Society will meet at the Commits
sionePs room. next Saturday. August 10th. A
full attendance is desired.
| LAFAYETTE SMITH, Sec.
Haste makes waste" alike of life and prop
erty. very often where oil is used to expedite the
kindling of fires. Those in the habit of so doing
ieopardize not only their own. but the lives and
property of others. The following from the
Pittsburgh Times should admonish such as are
in the habit of using this dangerous agency in
kindling fires. to abandon its further use:
FATAL PRACTICE.-Another Pittsburgh wo-
man has probably induced her own death and
considerable property loss by the familiar expe-
dient of using oil to kindle fire. Hundreds of
American women have persisted in the same way.
and every week or two the newspapers record
their miserable fate. Nevertheless with almost
unceasing regularity. the list of fatalities from
this cause increases. The object of using the oil
is. of course. to hasten the making of the fire,
but it too often turns out to be simply the means
of expediting the death of the person using it.
Example and admonition seem alike wasted on
the people who thus tempt their own fate. In
asmuch as their conduct usually involves dam.
age to the property of others. it is A question
whether it would not be well to invoke legisla-
tive interference. If penalty were provided
for all who attempt to kindle fires with the dead
ly oil. the terrible loss of life yearly resulting
therefrom might perhaps be lesSensd.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-08-16

Horace Barber died at his home, northwest
OF this city. II o'clock a. m. Thursday, August
10th, 1898. aged 81 years. He had been in fee.
BILE health for many months. and had been
steadily failing ever since an accident that befeI
him about year ago. He is survived by a
vile and five chldren-two sons and three
daughters-all of whom are married.
His funeral was held Sunday at clock D.
M, from the house, Rev. o. A. Richards oficia-
ting.
Mr.. Barber was an excellent citizen, man
OF integrity and useful living, who enjoyed the
respect, good will and confidence of his fellow
men. He was lifelong Democrat, and in po-
ltlcal action, as in all other relations of life,
was consistent and constant.