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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

Michigan City Dispatch: Jonathan
Shook received his commission Sat
urday from Governor Hanly as jus
tice of the peace in Michigan town
ship for the next four years. AT tbs
end of the coming term of four year:
Mr.. Shook will have served forty
years and twenty-five days as justice
of peace in Laporte county His
first commission was issued by Gov
ernor {. Baker on October 2s, 1870
and the last one by Governor Hanll,
on Nov. %, 1906.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

The figures of the domestic trade
of the United States, like those relat-
ing to foreign commerce, show big
gains for 1906 over the preceding
year. The increase is particularly
noteworthy in cattle, meat and grain
shipments, in production and con-
sumption of coal, in dealings in pro-
visions, cotton and other staples and
in the general business done by the
great rail and water transportation
routes. We are buying and selling
more abroad than ever before. but
our incompatible home market is de-
veloping at an unparalleled rate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

Several important reasons are Civ
en- for the gathering of Republica,
state senators at Indianapolis Frida,
at the call of Lieutenant Gov. Miller
The most important matter for con
sideration is the distribution of plum
der. Miller is in favor of cuttins
this down. He does not want three
or four door keepers inside and on
and guards galore where one maj
answers the purpose. He also OBJ
jects to having clerks in The way o
each other and four cleaners for eacl
spittoon-
Four years ago the amount OF hel
employed was almost double wha
the law allows and it has been tina
way for some time Most of thu
help" gets S. per day while the leg
islators themselves get only So.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
An Unlearned Lesson.

In a discussion of the possibility
that Mr.. Roosevelt will, in spite OF
all he has said, be forced into accept
ing another nomination, the Brook
Ign Eagle says many wise and true
things. 1t reminds us that during
the last few years the newspapers
have been filled with accounts OF
privileges granted to corporations,
and adds that we all know what the
charges have been based on. The
work of exposure has been relent-
lessly carried on. Probably nothing
was ever seen like it in the history
of the world. Not only have the
magazines denounced the wrongful
use of wealth, but, as the Eagle says
books have been written about It.
and orators have made the most of
it with telling effect" Nor has the
agitation died down, for men are
everywhere discussing these evils
broadly and UNDERSTANDINGS" The
questions have reached beyond the
mere mouthings of socialists and an
archists," and have become truly ma
tional.
No small part of the Presidents
amazing popularity is due to the fact
that the corporations hate him. And
the whole trouble comes from the
failure of what have come to be
known as the interests" to do their
duty to the public The more money
man gets the greater seems to be
his desire to control" some one or
some thing. He goes into politics,
not for the purpose of cooperating
with his fellow-citizens to secure
wise legislation and good govern
ment, but to get some graft for him
self And so it has come 20 pass
that, not simply great wealth, but
property itself is disliked and dis
trusted. And thus we are deprived
of the influence of perfectly legiti-
mate force operating on the side of
conservatism In this country most
of our people are property owners.
Yet large numbers of voters instinct
lively take sides against property The
growth of socialism points inevitably
to this conclusion. Hearst's great
vote in New York is another danger
signal Such signals are flying on
every side. Yet our wealthy men
and our corporations and trusts
seem to be blind to them. 1t is as
tounding that they are not able to
discern THE signs of the times" Blu;
such seems to be the case. 1t is hard
to know what will waken them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

The dispatches tell US that the leg
islature of the canton of Vaud in
Switzerland has unanimously voted a
law establishing rigorous treatment
for habitual drunkards. The propos-
al is to conine such persons in asy-
lums until they are cured. If they
appear to be cured and after being
released relapse into their old habits
they will be under observation so
that they can be promptly returned
for further treatment, or for life CON
6nement, if that proves to be neces-
sary.
This is eminently sensible treat
inent 1t is much the kind we now
give to the insane. So long, as the in
sane are incapable of caring for
themselves and ARE a nuisance or a
danger to society they are kept in
confinement. If they become capable
of living the ordinary life of other
people they are allowed to return to
it.
There is another field in which
similar methods must be applied.
That is in the treatment of profes-
sional criminals. We often hear th-r
criminal described as a diseased per-
son, method of diagnosing the case
which is about nine-tenths wrong
But there is this analogy to chronic
disease in such crime that, given the
present conditions of society, the
person who once contracts the habi
of supporting himself by Grim is no;
very apt to overcome it, Punishment
does not prove to be deterrent, and
the confirmed criminal goes back to
his habits as soon as he is released
We will not be able to get on.
crime in hand ard suppress it until
we learn to distinguish sharply be-
.ween the crime of passion or emo
ion and the crime that is business,
and until We treat criminals of the
latter variety rs men who must be
permanently segregated unless they
can be cured. The only possible cure
is to train the criminal to make his
living in some other way. A relapse
on his part should result in indefinite
imprisonment, and probably in most
cases in Imprisonment for life.
Our present system of haphazard
punishments inflicted over and over
again IS unintelligent and wasteful
and as cruel to the criminal as it is
to his victims when he is at liberty.
Record Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

Priscilla Dunlap, nee Ebie, wa,
born in Starke county, Ohio, Sep
TENDER 10, is41, and died at her hom,
west of Argos November 90. 1906
aged IS years, 2 months and 10 days
Sne came to Marshall county, Ind
ana, in the year 1866 and was united
in marriage with Alexander DUNLAP
December rs of the same year. Sh'
was the mother of four children
John, James, George and William
who together with her aged HUSBAND
eight brothers and three sisters ar,
left to mourn for her.
Funeral services were held at Joi
dan church Thursday at 12 O'Clock
Interment in Jordan cemetery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
He is Fully Equipped.

According to Nashville advices,
Carey Jackson, the new Democratic
representative from Republican Rush
county, has private secretary and
general manager While this is
something new in the way of Indiana
politics, on the face it does not look
like such bad departure.
1t does not appear clear as to
whether Mr. Jackson thinks the In
diana Legislature is something like
the National Congress or whether il
is like a prize ring. A congressman
generally has a private secretary and
prize fighter has a manager. Mr.
Jackson, however, evidently intends
to be we'll fortified for anything that
may come; equipped with both OF
the luxuries he'll be on safe ground
no matter what may turn up.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Another Big Swindle.

Another gigantic swindling scheme
has been discovered and exposed by
Uncle Sans vigilant and faithful ser.
wants. A gang of high flyers, with
headquarters at Milwaukee and Chi
cago, organized themselves into I'm
derwriting and guaranty institutions
They did Aourishing business, their
operations running into millions OF
dollars. The whole outfit didn't
amount TO a bobbee, SO far as bene-
fits to the guaranteed are concern
ed But the captains lived in high
clover. They will not fare so well
when they get behind the bars.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
The Standards Turn Has Come.

The suit which the government
has brought in the United States dis
trict court in St. Louis against the
Standard Oil company is the cul-
mination of the investigation into
the doings of that combine. 1t is
the belief of the president and Al
torney General Moody that sufficient
evidence has been obtained against
the Standard and its seventy con-
stituent partners to dissolve the
trust, and to prevent it from entering
into any future contracts in restraint
of trade There are seven individual
defendants, the most prominent OF
whom are John d. and William
Rockefeller The suit is brought
against them under the Sherman an
thrust act of 1890, and the govern
ment's law officers think that the case
against this combine is complete at
every point AS the Standard has
survived many attacks, the general
public will defer its jubilation until
the decree of dissolution of the com
bine becomes fact All the resour-
ces of obstruction which wealth and
legal talent can set up will be en-
ployed by the Standard The astute
gentlemen at the head of thar bill
lion-dollar aggregation know that in
this crusade against the trusts the
government is enlisted for the war.
The plan of attack was formulated
carfully by the president and the law
officers of the government several
weeks before the Panama trip began.
1t is known, of course, that the
suits which are under way against
the Standard in Ohio, Missouri, Tex
as, Kansas and other states are large
ly based on evidence which has been
gathered by the government at
Washington. Attorney General
Moody is the head and front of the
prosecution wherever the combine
is being assailed. The national au
thorities have been at work against
the Standard for nearly two years. A
strong case will undoubtedly be
brought against the combine in the
St. Louis suit. The revelations
which had been made by Attorney
General Moody's agents up to last
May, melted that special message by
the president to congress, under
which the combine was arraigned by
him for violation of the antitrust law.
The emphatic language used by the
president at that time showed that
the fight of its life was just ahead
for the Standard. The suit before
the United States district court at
St. Louis is the outcome of that de-
termination. In several states the
Standard is being attacked, but the
assault by the national government
in ST. Louis is the real beginning OF
the war which will settle that com
bine's fate If it is beaten there it
will go down like Hills Northern
Securities Company in the assault
which the government made on it
three years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Wealth of Indiana.

That Indiana people have been ac
curing wealth rapidly during the last
few years is shown by bulletin just
issued by the census bureau The
bulletin tells story of prosperity in
the Hoosier State A comparison is
drawn between the years 1900 and
1904. In 1900 the average per capital
wealth of Indiana people was ST.
O35.7s. In 1904 it was $1,173.73, diff
ference of $13795.
The total valuation of all Indiana
property increased from $2,606, 493,
OO4 in 1900 OF $3,1O5,7 s1 ,739 in 1905
The increases by specific items were
as follows: Real property and inn
provements, from $500, 2s3, 1888 to
81, 76O,05s,9 6s; live stock, from s11s,-
nents and machinery, from $27 $3.50,
963, 200 to 1851, 79s, 200; farm nipple
$40 to $29,374, 6s2; manufacturing ma
chinery, tools and implements from,
s65,O46, 726 OF $s4,079,O65; gold ami
silver coin and bullion, from SAT 1902,
176 to $50, ,773; railroads and their
equipment, form 1904 ,137 900 to 1915,
SAL 900; street railways, telegraph
and telephone systems, Pullman and
private cars, shipping canals, water
works and electric light and power
stations, from $s1 ,337,411 to $780,
967; all other property, from s462,-
O92,2 3s to $542,716,094
The enormous valuation placed on
railroads and their equipment shows
what Bryan's scheme of governments
ownership would cost Indiana. The
total assessed valuation of Indiana
property increased from 81, $780, 45,-
l30 in 1900 to s1,52, s69, $40 in 1904
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
COTTON nAps HARD.
Teachers Severely Scored by State
Superintendent.

In the November bulletin just is
sued to the teachers of the state by
Fassett A. Cotton, state superinten-
dent of public instruction, the state
superintendent takes rap at some OF
the teachers of the state, those who
teach on the Squeers plan.
while it is true" says the bulle-
tin, that there are hundreds OF
teachers in Indiana who are not and
cannot be paid for their work In dol
lars and cents, there are still many
who are paid indefinitely more than
they are worth
Neither the best teachers of the
state nor the general public know
nor can be made to comprehend how
wretchedly poor some of the work in
some of our schools is. In many dis
tricts in the state there can be found
this winter, schools in the hands of
men and women who are SO wanting
in all of the qualities that 60 to make
the real teacher that the whole per-
Torrance is a farce. 1t might be
looked upon as comedy and be dis
regarded if the outrage perpetrated
upon the children did not make it a
serious tragedy. Ignorant persons are
still employed and go on from year
to year. posing as teachers. And
such persons will continue to offer
themselves, and what is worse, will
still continue to be hired till stand
arcs which they cannot reach are
fixed and till wages which will induce
better men Ard women to prepare
themselves are offered.
The bulletin then gives an illustra-
ton of slovenly teaching that the
state superintendent encountered in
his visits.
"How long viii the people stand
this sort of teaching?" the bulletin
continues. When will they awake to
the consciousness that the children
have but one period of childhood,
that childhood is the time for pre-
paration, and that children deserve
the best that can be obtained There
isn't man in the district in which
this school is located that would put
the training of a fine colt in the
hands of man who knows as little
about horses as this teacher knows
about children. The fact is that all
people have not fully realized that
the schools must have their atten-
ton"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
A BIG CONTRACT.
Monarch Iron Company Secures
$4,000 Worth of Castings.

The Monarch Iron Company of
this city has just closed contract
for $4,000 worth of castings from
Kaestner & Co., manufacturers OF
brewers machinery and paint mills at
Chicago.
The Monarch Iron Works will
soon be in shape TO do big business
in Plymouth, and it is already doing
much more than 1t was supposed 1t
could do in so short time after To-
eating here and having to build a
plant for its machinery 1t went to
work at once wherever it could find
building TO work in, bur IT'S own
buildings are now approaching COM
pletion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

The Rev. w. w. Lineberry, former
president of the Indiana Conference
of the Methodist Protestant church.
has made report of his visit to Pitts
burg last week, as a member of the
committee on vested rights, looking
to merger of the Methodist Prot
cstant and United Brethren churches,
in which he says the present pros
pect for the proposed union is very
encouraging, and that the several
committees are ready to report to
the general conference, to meet in
Chicago in February
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

Governor-elect Hughes told the six
hundred banqueters at the Waldorf
Astoria in plain terms, that, while en-
tirely willing to give respectful ten
ton to suggestions and recommends
IONS, hrs mind was fully made up to
carry out in good faith the promises
and pledges he made to the people Of
New York prior to the election
From that path of duty he would moi
swerve in the slightest degree. This
is the kind of talk that encourages
men who believe in sincerity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

Not single American died on the
canal zone from disease in the last
three months, according to a report
the isthmian canal commission ha'
just received from Colonel W. C.
Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer on
the zone. The decrease in the death
rate among the employees, Colonel
GOrgas reports, is due almost entirely
to the decrease in pneumonia
In October the deaths among the
canal employees were eighty-six ne
groes and two whites. Colonel Cor
gas says: IL do not argue that we
nave found the Ponce de Icons
spring Of perpetual life. but merely
that Panama is not SO bad place
from a heath point of view, as is
generally believed"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
SCORES INQUIRY INTO RIOT,
Negro Says Officer Wanted to Make
Case Against Blacks.

Gilchrist Stewart, head of the ne
gro commissioners sent by the Con-
stitutional League of America to col
lect evidence regarding the recent
riot in Brownsville, TeA-, and the
investigation which resulted in the
discharge of three battalions of ne
gro soldiers, has given put an inter
view in which he denounced the in
vestigation made by General Gar
lington and Major Blackstone as a
farce
He also sent a telegram to Secre-
tary Taft saying that he had full EVIL
dence that an injustice had been done
and asking for a full hearing IN be-
half of the soldiers.
Investigation" said Mr. Stewart,
shows that the inquiries made by
Major Blackstone and General Gar
lington, upon which the presidents
order was based, were the veriest
farces, the purpose of their inquire,
being to make case against the sol
diers rather than to ascertain the
truth General Darlington is a ma
tive of South Carolina and sharer
in its negrophobia.
He said that negroes were alto
gether too bumptious and needed a
ltsson. He allowed no explanations
that would show the utter impossi-
bility of the negro examined having
knowledge of either riots or rioting
He wanted case and he made it.
when the fusillades in Browns
vile made it dangerous in Fort
Brown an alarm was given, the gar
rison was routed and roll call was
made. Every man was present and
accounted for
Negro soldiers have not the bird
like faculty of being in two places
at once; they were in the fort and
hence not in town.
THE people OF Brownsville want
ed to get rid of the Twenty-ifth
infantry and fake riot was organ
lied The man said to be killed can
not be found or identified; the alleg-
ed wounded police official is still un-
identified, but the negro soldiers are
gone. Twelve selected victims were
sent TO San Antonio and locked up
in the Fort Sam Houston guard
house to await action of the grand
jury. The jury met and found No
evidence and the soldiers were re-
leased. Those whom the Texas jury
failed to indict the president punish
ed
1.-The Constitutional league will
prove the innocence of the soldiers;
it will show the gross injustice oil
Garlington's report and will demand
ar inquiry into his conduct
Darlington refused to allow any
evidence by noncommissioned Off
GERS, showing that all the men were
accounted for except four out OF
passes.
only twenty-six men of the entire
battalion were called in the investi
CATION and those were not allowed Z
full hearing. The men keenly fell
the injustice"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Thinks Hanly Has Made Mistake,

w. Fl. Robertson. formerly of
Hebron, now editor of the Fowler
Republican, sadi last week:
The speakership at Indianapolis is
going to cause all kinds of trouble.
1t is the most ua-American and un-
Republican thing which has trans
pired in politics since Indiana became
a state. Every department. should
guard its prerogatives from invasion
by other departments with jealous
zeal, and Mr.. Hanly has made the
colossal mistake of his career by his
unwarranted Interference in the mat
ter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

In the presence of curious crowd
the sheriff of Elizabethtown, KY.
will this week offer to the highest
bidder an able-bodied white man
Dock Auberry, whom jury has de-
clared without means of support and
able to work. but with an overmas-
tering inclination not to do so. Fol
nine months the State will turn Au.
berry over to the buyer to perform
manual labor. While the auctionine
off of a human being in this age
seems queer, the action in the pres
ent case is perfectly regular and un-
der a State law, though one moi
called into use very often.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

A freight car on the siding at Roll
ing Prairie was caught by the heavy
windstorm last Wednesday afternoon
about 2 O'Clock and blown down the
main track, To New Carlisle, a dis
lance of seven miles There it col
lided with the caboose of one OF the
freight trains which was wrecked in
the collision of two freights, which
occurred Tuesday morning. The rear
end of the caboose was smashed. The
fact that there is heavy grade be-
tween Rolling Prairie and New Car
llisle helped the car along.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Improvement OK Farmer Homes,

The United States department of
agriculture will soon issue treatise
on Modern Conveniences for the
Farm Home" The object of the pub
lication is to show how farmers can
equip their homes with many of the
conveniences now largely confined to
city homes. Among the subjects
treated are water supply, plumbing,
bathrooms and closets. sewage dis
posal, and heating. The farmer is
shown how, at comparatively small
expense, he can supply his home with
water by means of an elevated tank
filled by hydraulic ram, a windmill,
or small engine. The bulletin,
which contains sorty-eight pages, is
for free distribution and applica-
ton may be made to he department
of agriculture or to senator's, repre-
sentatives, or delegates in congress.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Choral Contea. At Marion.

On Friday, Nov. 3Oth at the coli
scum in Marion, Ind, the largest
choral contest ever attempted in the
middle west will be held. Ten hun
dred and forty-three singers, residing
in FIVE states have entered the con-
test. Fifteen hundred dollars in cash
prizes is offered, ranging from $s5 to
$500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

The Pennsylvania railroad has
called for bids for the construction
of one hundred alI-steel, non-imfam
mable passenger cars. This will be
the first lot of such equipment TO be
made in accordance with the com
pany's intention to build no more
wooden cars. The decision on this
point was fastened by the progress
of the New York tunnel, through
which the company will run nothing
but absolutely fre-proof cars.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29
Two Centenarians Dead.

Two centenarians, Sinclair Bur
dette and Mathew McClaude, are
dead within few miles of each
other. in Summer county, West Vir-
ginia. Burdette was los and was
born and reared on a farm where his
death occurred. McClaude was 101,
and lived in Hinton for half a cen
furv
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-29

The almanacs for 1907 are now out
and are being looked over with inter
est. They show two eclipses in Jan.
uary, one on the 14th and the other
on the 10th. The latter, which will
be partial, may be seen here by early
risers as it starts at 600 In the NOR
ming. The next eclipse will be ON
July 10, but will not be visible here,
On July "a there will be an eclipse
of the moon at s:04 O'Clock continu-
ing until 11:4i. 1t win Be visible here.