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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

Metsker says it is none of his bust
ness if Daniel wants to burn his toes
by trying to start a daily paper in
Plymouth. " The queer little man s
assumption of indifference does not
cOmpOrt well with his conduct and
threats. He has threatened to reduce
his price to six cents per week and to
cut the rates for legal advertising
most ridiculouSly the day Dams daily
appears: he has admitted that the new
paper will work loss to him and
claims he has roped in two foreign
corporations to bear that loss; he has
declared that ne will endeavor to in
jure the interests of the democrat
party and he has conducted himself
like whipped and scared pup ever
since Dams fateful announcement ap-
peared. Metsker has made it very
much his business and he has only
lust begun.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
The Studebaker Obsequies.

The time for the funeral OF Glenn
Studebaker was set for Saturday
afternoon at l O'Clock at Tippecanoe
Place. The services were private
and there was no music. The Of
floating ministers were Rev. DIR. j.
G. Campbell, present pastor of st.
Paul's Methodist church, and Rev.
DR.. E. A. Schell, of Chicago. Rev. w.
E. McLennen, of Evanston, and Rev
S. w. GOSs, of Charlottesville. all for
mer pastors of Mr.. StudebalSer,
also took part in the solemn ceremon-
les.
The Studebaker employees were in
vited to view the remains from s to
10 O'Clock Saturday morning; the gen.
eral public from 10 to II O'Clock.
The family requested that no flowers
be sent.
The honorary pallbearers consisted
of twenty-four leading and represent
alive men of South Bend and the
active pallbearers were six nephews of
the deceased. A very large number
of persons from out of town were pres
ent, including the governor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
PROFESSIONAL AMENITIES.

The Indiana Weekly, periodical
published at indianapolis of date of
23d inst, contains a double column
portrait of "Clay w. Metsker, of Plym-
outh, editor and publisher of the In
dependent daily" 1t is further
stated under his picture, undoubtedly
written by himself, as nobody else in
this section of the state was in posses
sion of the knowledge, that ''He is
one of the most active, popular and in
fluential democrats of Northern Ind
lana. His name is frequently men,
toned as a candidate for the demo-
cratic congressional nomination in the
Thirteenth DISTRICT
1t takes something like a quart of
gall, whole lot Of cheek and about
SO in money to get puff like that
Plymouth Democrat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
ABOUT THAT FACTORY.

The day-late Independent cheriSheS
in its well-filled armOry of GiSrepC-
table weapons one particular lie that
it is fond of using to excuse the scoops
we hand it almost daily. The lie is
that it was in possession Of the
facts under promise not to print and
that we violated confidence in pub
fishing those facts. 1t follows this
up with weak rebaSh of our state
ment in the particular case. Its
latest use of this lie was in reference
to the failure of the piano people to
take the Novelty plant and it tries to
make it appear that the Plymouth
Business Mems association has been
concealing from the public matters in
which the people are all interested.
Our information was given Us by a
person who was authorized to do sc
and it was impaired for the express
purpose of placing it before the peo
pie as a matter of right to the T.. The
Business Mems association is not deal
ing in secrets but is playing entirely
fair with the people in whose interest
it is organized and whose confidence
it must retain if it is to meet with
with any sort OF success IN
its earnest efforts to build up
the business of the city. A paper
that has no more sense than TO attack
the good faith of the merchants and
professional men whose patronage it
seeks will assuredly not be selected as
a safe medium of communication with
the people when facts are to be made
public.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05


The tremendous strides mace by the
United States during the past three
or four years are yet but dimly realized
by the American people and the on
ward march is unchecked. First came
acknowledged supremacy in war, then
In finance, and again In manufacturing.
Within short time we have seen evil
dences of the nations supremacy in
trade and now come the Germans,
whose educational system has been the
admiration of the world, and appoint
commissioners to investigate our pub
lie schools with view to adopting the
methods in vogue in this country and
that were original with our peda-
gogues. Surely the world do move.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

A new note mas come into the
Thanksgiving rejoicings in this first
year of the twentieth century and it
was une dominant tone of the day
throughout the land. As expressed
by the Chicago Evening News, which
is certainly not a republican journal,
it is as follows:
But the citizen who takes sober
thought of the situation tomorrow
may well doubt whether any of the
achievements of material ambition is
so important to himself or to his
country as is the present manifest
promise that principle and honesty
and fair dealing are to be more than
ever the determining factors in Ameri-
can craftsmanship. The national adj
ministration passed from the hands of
Mckinley just after he had outlined
a policy based on "a peculiarly high
conception Of government. The mani
fold duties he laid down have passed
without disturbance to a successor
who holds the same high views and
has the courage and resolution to
follow them. Surely in the promise
of future greatness thus held out be-
fore them the American people have
reason to feel the glow of thanks
giving.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
Decision On a Novel Point.

: The case of the State Of Indiana on
the relation of j. w. Maxey, truant
officer, VS. Joseph Pippenger, resident
of North township, was tried before
Justice of the Peace Molter today.
The defendants son, Adelbert, is in
his fourteenth year and the father re-
fused to keep him in school. School
age, as defined in the statute, is from
the seventh to the fourteenth year,
both inclusive, and the contention of
the state, represented by Attorney l..
M. Lauer, was that this includes the
whole period from the beginning of
the seventh year to the end of the
fourteenth, in which view the court
concurred and rendered judgment
against Mr.. Pippenger. The case will
De appealed and may ultimately reach
the supreme court, as both parties are
determined and each is confident he
is right.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
The independent saws it has always

The Independent says it has always
served the democratic party faithfully
because it believes in democratic prin-
cipleS and has never asked for the
legal advertising as a reward for its
fidelity. Here are two unadulterated
lies. The Independent always posed
as an independent paper and made
emphatic claims of its freedom from
political influence up to the time its
present editor concluded to become a
candidate for estate representative. y
It's influence has on several occasions
been offered to the republicans for a
price and within sixty days suggeS-
tion has been made by its present
publisher to change the name of the
weekly Independent to the Republi-
can and run it as republican paper,
the daily edition to be neutral in
politics, the purpose being to hood
wink the subscribers to the old
Republican and in that way get a
better business than the wabbly indie
pendent now enjoys. So much for its
fidelity to political principles. AS to
the legal advertising, every county Of
ticer during the past six years. every
democratic lawyer and many clients
know that Metsker has asked and
begged for that class of business and
failing to get it he has tried cajolery
and even threats without success.
And the absurd creature has not the
wit to know that the rich revenues
from that source have dwindled away
and that is really what is the matter
with Daniel now. The Independent
is as Stingy with truth as it is with
news, neither of which graceS its
columns to any great extent so far as
they are printed in Plymouth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05


The brilliant entrance of the Ind
annapolis Sentinel into the ranks OF
picturesque journalism, with hand
made heads and complicated column
arrangements, is distinctly the feature
Of the year In Hoosier newspaper cir
cles. A delightful feature of It's first
issue in the new form is the pervasive
Indiana color and atmosphere given
by its selection of miscellaneous mat
ter. The indianapolis makeup art
lists have been conservative for so long
that the Sentinel's change brings a
considerable shock, but the effect is
pleasing nevertheless.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
Dire Warning to Obtain From Islander

A gentleman over at Pierceton,
having just cause for wrath, cards the
papers of that town as follows:
This notice is to the public that
there has been few smart boys in
Pierceton continually calling me those
slanderous names which was published
in the year 1899 Sept. the 21st day.
The slandering names are ''Ring tail
s9uealer the cow tail pealer." Gentle
men as / do not intend to use such
language up on my fellow men neither
do care to have it used up on me.
This is from date. Harry Stillwell,
Ellie Atchison and Jane Rice's boy as
l do not know his first name those
boys l will briefly say if they can not
obtain from slandering me will be ar
rested to the full extent of the law.
If / have harmed any one or done
anything to cause such SANDER please
leave it to be known to me. Here is
my full name SO that there will be no
mistake.
REANEoUs STEELE.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

Reports from Washington indicate
a strong probability that the disclos-
ures of irregularity in the navy depart
ment made in the Schley inquiry and
the powerful suspicion of favoritism
and conspiracy that has been strength
ened by those disclosures will
be probed by a congressional
investigation. This is as it
should be and congress should
not stop without going through the
war department in the same manner.
The conditions in both those depart
ments are scandalOus if not corrupt
and bureaucracy prevails to a disreput-
able extent. This is not political
matter and partisan lines should be
swept aside in conducting the inquiry.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
NO GLIMMER OF SENSE IN THEIR
PROPONTION.


Several republican papers, the Re-
view among them, are advocating
either reduction of the tariff or its
removal upon trust products as a
means of destroying these cOmbina-
tiOns. That same policy was advo-
Gated by the democratic party during
the last national campaign, and was
opposed, strenuously, vigorously, by
these same papers. Their change of
heart, however, is not remarkable, nor
is it important enough to discuss. a
speckled hen is usually good clucker.
Granting, for the sake of the argu-
ment, that trusts could be abolished
by revising the tariff, what good could
be accomplished by such a policy?
Take the glass industry as an exam
pie. There are perhaps hundred
thousand employees engaged in the
manufacture of glass products, who
would be thrown out of employment
if sufficient reduction were made to
break up the trust, because that COM
-bination is legally organized as a sim
gle corporation and its different fac
tories would have to be closed before
the corporation could 90 into liquida-
ton and have its property divided.
Suppose this same policy of smashing
trusts were pursued in the steel and
iron industry, in sugar refining and
other large trust corporations? The
result would be the enforced idleneSs
of million or more of working peo-
pie, a number sufficient to girdle the
country with tramps and beggars.
But that would not be the worst
feature of this trust abolishing Jolly
Fully one-half our trust products are
not protected by a high tariff. We
would then have million of house
less, homeless working people and
another million or so still in the en-
ploy of trusts like the Standard Oil
company, our transportation com.
panies, some of our mining enterprises,
gas trusts, electric trusts and similar
combinations. The products of cheap
foreign labor would also flood oul
markets, because there would be nc
tariff to exclude them and this now
prosperous country would become an
industrial cemetery with idle mills
and factories as tomb stones to mark
the graves of our commercial hopes
By all means revise the tariff to Kill
trusts. We have a lot of nincompoor
editors who deserves starvation.
If congress is sensible it will &c
about tariff revision in a careful man
ner. Few people know the cost of
production in this country as compared
with that of other countries. That
knowledge is essential and should be
Investigated by experts. 1t would be
madness to admit foreign products to
be sold here at less price than we
can produce them because their sale
would compel the idleness of Ameri-
can working people. The tariff needs
revision but not to break up trusts
nor to destroy our manufacturing in
terests. Let the revision be made by
experts and according to the demands
of industrial conditions. Also let
trusts be abolished u regulated as
may be necessary by laws enacted for
that express purpose. Flkhart Truth
(dem.)
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

What Metsker. with his Six-cent pa
per and his two-penny legal adverti-
sing, hopes to do to Dan is plenty;
what Dan will actually do to Metsker
when the war opens will aStonish that
arrogant and insolent little fellow.
And yet Dan need not do much but
give the calf rope and let it do its own
hanging.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

An editor ought not to array the
poor against the rich, the unfortu-
nate against the successful, nor class
against class. He ought not TO be a
pesslmist, but rather an optimist, not
an iconoclast but an architect, not a
preacher of discomfort but an evangel
of good cheer and hope.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
GLEN STUDEBAKER.

The death of Glen Studebaker re-
moves a man who from the humblest
beginnings attained position Of
worldwide honor and Importance
among the captains of industry. He
was the son of poor country black
smith and commenced his own career
as country schOolmaster at South
Bend halfa century ago. In 1851, be-
ing then twenty years of age, he took
employment as blacksmith in facto-
ry and received fifty cents day and
his board.
One year later his ambition led him
to embark in business for himself,
which he did in company with his
brother, Henry. They opened a
blacksmith shop, and between them
they had to start on complete set Of
tools and a little cash-leSs than a
hundred dollars in value all together.
Out of this grew the largest vehicle
manufacturing establishment in the
world. In those days all blacksmith
shops made wagons and theStudebaker
boys made good wagons. In ten years
every farmer within reach of South
Bend knew of the uniform excellence
and honesty of the output of the little
blacksmith and wagon shop at South
Bend and the industry was expanding
in proportion to the growth of the
community.
BY thrift, economy, enterprise and
hard business sense the StudebakerS
were able to enlarge their plant from
time to time. They took in other
brothers and confined their business
the building of wagons. When the
war broke out they had their affairs
so well in hand that they felt safe in
taking contract to furnish one humid
red army wagons to the government,
and that was regarded as an undertake
ing that might ruin them. By the
close of the war they had satisfactorily
filled many government orders and
had become one of the leading indus
trial concerns Of the state.
Glenn Studebaker was always at the
head of the institution. His genius
made it. When the firm incorporated
in 1868 he was made president and
that position he held continuously
until his death and always regarded as
the most honorable distinction of all
that were conferred upon him during
the past thirty years. He was presi-
dent in fact as we'll as in title and he
never ceased to labor for the institu-
ton that bore his name.
Mr.. Studebaker was broad man
a highminded one. He realized the
duties of Christian citizenship and
strove to perform them. He made
the highest moral and civic virtues
his own and exemplified them in all
the relations of life. The possession
of wealth and influence and the at
tainment of high position in the
world of business and politics never
detracted from the genial affability
that made him always approachable in
the true American spirit. South
Bend will miss the splendid personality
of Glenn Studebaker: Indiana will miss
hic counsels and his influence, and the
nation has lost one of the men that
contributed much to make it great.
His marvellous career from the anvil
to so great an eminence among men is
an illustration of the possibilities that
lie before every American youth,
however humble may be his origin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
Plymouth, Ind, November %, 1901.

S. f. Harris has again become the
owner of the NewS-MirrOr, ]. G. Shuler
retiring. Brother Harris is warmly
welcomed to his old place in the jour-
nalistic ranks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

What is a farm? The census de-
partment holds -thatIa farm" is all
the land under one management used
for raising crops and pasturing live
stock, with thes. wood lots, swamps,
meadows, etc., connected Herewith
the house IN whichsthe farmer resides,
and all other buildings used by him in
connection with his farming opera
tions. The term ''farm products, -
as used-in the census means all crops
raised, of whatSOeverCkind, and all
animals produced, whether sold or
slaughter on the farm, together
with the products thereof: it includes
ereaiS, live stock, fruits, vegetables.
poultry, eggs, milk, butter, cheese,
honey, or anything that is raised, OF
made from what is raised, on the
farm and that has salable or disable
value. By deducting from the total
value of all the farm products the
value of such products as are fed OF
consumed on the farm producing them
the 'sgross farm income" is obtained;
and by deducting from the gross in.
come the expenditures for taxes, in
terest, insurance, feed, repairs and
maintenance, clothing, purchased
food, and family necessities the met
farm income is found The value OF
the land, buildings, permanent i'm
provements, machinery, implements
vehicles, animals for work and breed
ing, and household and stable furnit-
ure constitutes the investment. ,
The percentage which the met in
GOMEZ is Of the ssinvestment" is the
rate of profit to the farmer over the
cost of living and oper ating the farm
How many farmers know definitely
where they are att?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

The famous Hope diamond that ar
rived from London Thursday is a
cushion-shaped stone little larger
than an ordinary hickory nut and
weighs 441 carats. 1t is perfect
sapphire blue without a-fiaw and has
all the brilliancy of the finest white
stone. The importer who brought it
to this country refused s35O,OOO for it
before the ship landed, the offer being
made by jeweler who chartered a
tug To meet the vessel for that pur-
pose. The gem received its name
from Henry I. lHope,'a banker, who
owned 1T at the time of his death re-
Gently and the nineteen English heirs
to whom it descended sold it to the
present American owner through
chancery court process. 1t is the
largest blue diamond ever. discovered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

Poor things, unheard of, unused,
they died upon the field of dishonor.
We refer to substitutes for genuine
Rocky Mountain Tea, made by Madi-
son Medicine Co. 35c, ]. w. Hess.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05

If you like Mrs. Austin s famous
Pancake flour, won It you be good. Tell
your friends how delicious it
is. 45t24 9t4
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-23
Richmond Wins at Polo.

At Muncie, Saturday night, the
Henley polo team defeated the Mum
cies by score of to in the pres
ence of one thousand people, in hard
fought game. In the game the goals
were won as follows: Van Allen 4,
Patterson 2, Mansfield l, Patterson
and Van Allen l. Muncie: Smith / !,
Beeson l, Wolfe and Johnson 2
Muncie plavs Anderson at Ander-
sor on the 25th, and Anderson and
Munc;e play at Muncie on the Goth.
Richmond plays Anderson here on
the 9th.
In yesterdays Enquirer the Mum
Gle team claim to be the western
champions, which is grand mistake
and an injustice which will not make
them friends. The Richmond team
has both the penants and all of the
gold medals. The only claim Mum
Gle can possibly have is their hopes
fer this season, and they need not
count them as realities for they
won't { make good.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-23
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

EwBANK-The remains of Edward
E. Ewbank were taken to New Mad
ison yesterday morning.
BABYLoN-Frank L Babylon, aged
% years, died last night at the home
of his grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs
Critchlow, 2S2 Fort Wayne avenue.
After short ser vices at the home at 9
a N. tomorrow morning the remains
will be taken to Piqua on the 10
O'Clock train. Friends may call at
the hor s, any time after 6 clock
this evening.
NoBLE-The funeral of Mrs W. T.
Noble will take place at the residence
Tuesday afternoon. Funeral pri-
vate
RosA-Louisa Rosa. aged fifty
nine years, wife of John Henry Rosa,
died Sunday evening at her home,
326 south sixth street, leaving a hus-
band and three daughters. The fu-
neral will take place Thursday after
noon at l o clock from the house and
l 80 O lock from St. Paul's Lutheran
church. Friends may call Tuesday
from to p. ID. and any time
Wednesday Interment at Luther
ania
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-23
Caught a Suspect.

George Boswell, a stranger, was
before the mayor this morning on
suspicion, but as nothing could be
proven he was set free. During the
past week many little articles have
been stolen out of the stores, enough
of them to make the police think
there was a gang of shopiifters work
ing the town. Saturday evening
Two men were in Rost 4 Marshall S.
ard by their suspicious actions
"a usee. watch to be kept on them.
Finally one Of them was captured by
a clerk with pair of gloves in his
pocket for which he had not paid
He gave up the gloves and the pair
we're allowed to leave the store
When Officer Winters heard of it he
went after them, but only succeeded
in capturing Boswell. The other fell
low got away.
William Robinson, colored, was
= led heavily for assault and battery
on his wife. 1t was sort of family
row. The woman had bad cut on
her head.