The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-29

preston that the man in Chicago
who was capable Judge has proved
TO be very incapable mayor There
are good many phases OF the reas-
ons given for this, but the principal
one seems 70 be that he imagined a
number OF big things as easy to do
as th;nkin' about it. In other words
he has been dreaming when he
thought he was thinking.
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The Elkhart Review very pertinent
ly asks: What has become Of the
savant who was using so much news
paper space and doing so much talk
ing a few years ago explaining that
the cutting down of forests and drain
ing OF the lowlands was responsible
for the protracted drouths we then
were having. The forests have not
been reproduced nor the bitches fill
ed up, but there is plenty of rain.
The trustees OF Fulton county have
formed pool for the purchase of
all school and township supplies
needed. Each trustee will make an
estimate of what he will require and
bids will be received for furnishing
all needed in the county. The con-
tract will go to the lowest responsible
bidder. 1t is estimated that 100 per
cent. will be saved and there will be
no suspicion OF graft resting upon
the individual trustee. \ similar plan
might be good thing for the tax
payers of Marshall county-Culver
Citizen.
When the candidates for mayor of
Chicago were named last spring and
the platforms proclaimed, this paper
predicted that Dunno would be cleo
ted because his party platform prom
ised more than the republican plat
form He was elected all right, and
now finds that it is impossible to
carry into execution those promises,
the chief of which was the municipal
ownership of street railways. 1t is
always much easier TO tell how city
affairs should be managed than it
is to actually do it.-Columbia City
Post
Another bishop, A. N. Morrison OF
Columbus, O., has called Rockefeller
a thief, and says President Harper OF
Chicago university is not much bet
ter. He asserts that when a student
goes to Chicago university he be-
gins TO lose his religion By the
time he is there three years he is
ready to renounce God. The bishop
declares that the church fair is down
on level with the barroom, perhaps
a trife better Low-neck dresses are
a sign OF the brothel and short
sleeves in dress OF women are an
invitation to the wicked
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The pith OF the Socialist argument
is that what man is depends wholly
upon his environment His instincts
and impulses are to be directed by
this Heredity has nothing to do
with it, or if it does then it is hered-
ity affected by the environment OF
the ancestry. Then they assume that
the government is everything in the
environment Make a socialistic gov
eminent, then man will have proper
environment and he will De a saint
in instincts. The Scriptures say thai
Adam had all this and still he was
Disconnected even in Paradise And
Adam had all this and still he was
a socialist He wanted a different
environment and he got it, to his
sorrow.
A Missouri newspaper says that the
time worn expression ''the poor far
mer' has come to be ore OF the
standing jokes The fact is the far
mers are no longer poor. Every town
of FIVE hunderd people or more in
north Missouri now has at least one
bank and the bulk OF fhe money on
deposit belongs to the farmers. The
deposits are large, too. Few banks
even of small capital carry less than
$4,000 on their daily balances and
many have two and three times that
amount. Count the market price of
''the poor farmers" land, figure out
the value of the stock, put in his
bank account, and you will find that
the average farmer is worth a good
deal more than the average towns
man.
Immense is the business done by
Lewis F. Hopfenmaier in the matter
OF buying the cancelled money orders
of the government, the redeemed
notes and bonds of the treasury de-
partment, the waste paper OF the gov.
eminent printing Office, Office records,
etc. The cancelled money orders for
1897 and 1895 amounted to more
than 100 TONS For the waste paper
OF the government printing Office
Hopfenmaier paid $4,000 last year.
All the redeemed and cancelled evil