The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-20


Plymouth, Indiana, July 90, 1905.
The appointment .ef Elihu
Root to the first place in the
cabinet seems TO have put a
quietus on the presidential aspi-
rations OF some OF the lesser
lights in the republican party.
Having been made Doctor"
fourteen times, by as many col
leges, it is not surprising that
the President should have con-
fdence in his ability to ANY,
thing that needs curing.
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Secretary Wilson OF the De-
partment OF Agriculture, stung
by statements OF President Hub
bard of the New York Cotton
Exchange, gives spur to the pros
ecution OF those who make COM
merce OF government secrets.
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Judge Peter S. Grosscup of
Chicago, in an address before the
Ohio State Bar Association at
Put-in-Bay, yesterday, expressed
the belief that the corporation
problems would be solved only
when citizens generally own cor
porate wealth.
A Huntington county farmer
came very near dying last week
by breathing too much Paris
green. He was using the poison
mixed with ashes and flour to kill
bugs on his potato vines. The
wind filed the air with the fine
particles and enough was inhaled
to poison him. BY hard work
a physician managed - save his
life.
John w. Earle OF Wawaka will
be candidate for the republican
nomination for auditor in 1906.
He is already in the field and has
been seeing his old friends in
this part OF the county pretty Of
ten since his school work closed.
Prof. Earle is an excellent gentle
man and would make a good off
Ger If elected. He will make
strong candidate and if not head
ed of by the party managers, will
get the nomination.
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Departed glory is represented
in many a carload OF fat plugs,
horses OF different ages and sizes,
but all in the class that have
passed their days OF usefulness,
which are being shipped out of
northern Indiana every week.
They all go to Detroit and they
must all be fat. Whether they
are canned is rot known, though
the suggestion OF buyer that
they are wanted for glue is hard
ly borne out by his peculiar dis
elimination.
The theory OF Governor Hanly
seems TO be that the laws were
made to be enforced. 1t does
not follow that he would intro
duce all these measures or advo-
cate them if he were in the legis-
latrre, nor does it follow that he
approves all of them. 1t is alto
gether possible that he thinks
some of them ought not to be on
the books, but they are there, and
he has eworn to enforce them.
A saying is attributed to General
Grant that is naturally recalled
in connection with this thought
The best way TO secure the re-
peal of an obnoxious law is to
enforce it." But whether tie
governor approves these laws or
not is not the question. He has
taken an oath to enforce them to
the utmost Of his ability.
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It is said that in one town in
this state the other day the far
mers who wanted harvest hands
came upon fifty loafers who adj
mitted that they were out OF a
Job but refused to go into the
harvest field, although they were
offered S25 week and board.
It is said that the demand for Ia
Dor was never greater; perhaps
never SO great, but at the same
time there are fifty able-bodied
men in one town who are doubt
'ess lifting up their voices in the
chorus of malcontents who are
complaining about lack of op-
,ortunity in this land. There
never was and there never will
he what they call opportunity in
this land or any other land for
his class of people.
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"The big stick" phrase was
esed in the last campaign by
>lemagogues on both the tripod
nd the platform in an attempt
. scare the people into the be-
ief that President Roosevelt was