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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Congressman at Bourbon.

1t seems from. the report of the
meeting at Bourbon, as given by the
News-Mirror, that Congressman
Brick does not want to ally himself
with the boilers of this county as the
Chronicle and the boilers claim. He
gave them the cold shoulder al
Bourbon and evidently believes their
support is hurting him in the district
The News Mirror says:
"Congressman Brick was here last
Friday night and addressed a nice
crowd OF Republicans and several
Democrats. His talk was character
led by reference to the fulfilled prom
Uses of the party he represents and
and an appeal to go to the polls the
9th of November and vote. Messrs
Sheppard, earn, Boys, Kessinger an
Ramsey were on the rostrum with
him and the audience was dissapoint
ed that they were not called on fo'
remarks. especially Mr. Sheppard
the nominee for auditor on the Re
publican ticket, for he is scrappine
hard for his success at the polls
Frank Martin, candidate for clerk
and Jones Grant, candidate for re
election for treasurer were also pres
ent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Railroad Statistics Given.

According to the figures compiled
by the State Bureau of Statistics,
during the year ending June. 1906,
nearly as many passengers were car
ried on railroads in Indiana as there
are people in the United States. Ac-
cording to the figures, Indiana rail-
roads last year hauled CABS, 1922 per-
sons. OF 204,5s6,5s2 tons of freight
hauled during the year, ;26,315, 1913
tons originated within the state.
Forty-four and sixty-fve hundredths
per cent of the tonnage was produced
in mines, 1857 cent was manufacture
ed products, 1878 per cent was ag-
ricultural products, 1861 per cent
was miscellaneous freight and 4o.1
per cent animal products.
Twenty-Five thousand three hun
dred and ffty-eight and twenty-four
hundredths miles OF main track were
operated by railroads during the year
and 2,s64.l0 miles of side track were
maintained.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Compliments Newspapers.

State Superintendent Cotton, in a
recent bulletin to teachers, comment
ing on Indiana's school affairs says
But none of these could have sue
ceeded without the support of tn.
newspaper. The press of Indiana has
been constant in session and out in its
advocacy of educational progress
When teacher goes into commun-
ity he can depend on the newspaper
man as an ally against ignorance
They have common cause. The ed
itor is interested in everything tina,
will benefit the community and school
superintendent and teachers should
work with the editor. They should
be. students together of problems OF
education. If this is not the case as a
general thing it is safe to say that the
trouble lies in the teacher himself
There is no force that so makes for
civic righteousness in a community
as good fearless newspaper, and the
school and the paper should be found
working together"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

1t seems that Goodrich, Moorman
Boys & Co., hired Louis Ludlow to
write an article for the Indianapolis
Star of Friday, Oct. 20, abusing w.
c. Hendricks and the regular Repub
lican party of Marshall county; bus
while Mr.. Ludlow was doing the job
he was paid for, he, being a Demo
crat, could not desist from giving
Congressman Brick sly stab under
the ribs.
Ludlow says the people are begin
ming to appreciate Brick at what he
is worth and he will have a plurality
of very near 1900 votes.
MIR. Brick hada plurality of very
near 1000 votes two years ago and
now the man hired by the gang to
abuse Hendricks says the reople are
beginning to appreciate Brick at
what he is worth and his majority
will be $500 less than it was two
years ago. When the boilers hire
such sly old Democrats as Ludlow
to write editorials for them, they
must ".ook out or the COLLINS will
get EN-"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Moody for Supreme Bench.

The selection of Attorney General
Moody for the supreme bench shows
that mans calculations and ambitions
are often diverted in peculiar man
ner. When Mr.. Moody wa, a mem
Der of congress MANY Of his col
leagues were impressed with his emf.
nent fitness to preside over that body
as speaker. The general tendency in
the selection of that presiding officer,
has been westward rather than east,
ward. Somewhat suddenly Moody
was transferred from the house to
the cabinet President Roosevelt tt-
came warmly attached to Moody, and
has held him in the cabinet much
longer than the latter desired to re-
main Moody desired to resume the
practice of law. Roosevelt deemed
him peculiarly fitted to serve as :
member of the supreme court-and
Moody acquiesced. Selections for tina.
exalted position, thus made, augur
well for the country.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Will am L. Taylor, former Attorney
General of Indiana, and Congressman
Overstreet addressed a Republican
meeting in the town hall at Bright
wood Thursday night. They had a
big crowd. Mr.. Taylor's theme was
What the Republican party has done
for the laboring man." Among the
things he spoke about was the propo-
sition to enact law providing for an
inheritance tax. On this subject he
said:
Inheritance tax laws are nothing
new. They are as old as the Roman
empire. These laws exist in Germany.
Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Greece, Sweden and England
England has had the inheritance tax
law for more than 100 years. Seventy
millions Of dollars this year will come
into Engand's treasury from this one
source. 1t will be enough to maintain
IL of the expenses of her vast and in
creasing navy.
Inheritance tax laws are not new
in this country. Eighteen states of
the Union have adopted the system
in one form or another. For eighty
consecutive years Pennsylvania has
pro6ted by this law. 1t has been the
law of New York for more than
twenty years. The great states of
Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio. Him
els, Minnesota and California have
followed Pennsylvania Indiana al
most alone of the great Northern
States of the Union, lags at the rear
Four years ago in my nnal report as
Attorney General | urged and recon-
mended to the Governor and the
Legislature the passage of an inheri-
lance tax law | did not stop there
wrote a bill and had it introduced
in the Legislature. l went before the
committees of the Senate and House.
The bill passed both bodies.
1T went to the Governor and was
vetoed because of clerical errors in
the enrolled bill. I shall write anoth-
err law and have it introduced in .the
coming legislature-an and shall work for
its passage / believe in such law
believe in the justice of such law
know of no law for the collection
of revenue so just as the inheritance
tax law. 1t is not tax upon prop
erty. 1t is not an income tax No
living man pays the tax 1t is simply
.oll that the State takes while prop
erty is passing from the dead ances
tor to the living heir. 1t never is paid
but once 1t is toll which the State
takes as property devolutes from the
dead to the living.
II believe in a progressive inner
itance tax law, one that increases the
percentage as the estate increases
Time and again these laws have beer
assailed. They have gone through
the furnace and FIRE. The Supreme
Court of the United Sta-es again and
again has been called upon to d ter
nine their constitutionality and val
idity, but approved of their most
-ighteous provisions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Forty thousand dollars worth oil
land changed hands near Bourbon
last week, the interested parties con
cerned in the transaction being Hen
ry Eyrich, of Joliet, ILL.,, who pur-
chased of Owen Unger, 200 acres
northwest of town and Stephen Fly
rich, brother of the former and
of the same place who purchased Mr.
fingers 300 acre tract northeast oi
town. The price was a round $4O,-
COO. Mr.. Unger took this land when
it was a wilderness and by dint OF
hard personal work and manage
men. of men he converted the acres
into farm land that just suited these
mea. They will be here the first OF
March to take possession and we
predict they will be just the kind OF
farmers that will hustle things and be
credit to the county.-Bourbon
Mirror.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Death of Mrs. Weireiter.

Mrs Katherine Weireiter died sud
denly at her home on Sophia street
early Sunday morning aged n years
Deceased was born in Germany
came with her husband and famil,
to New York over 40 years ago and
from that city came to Plymouth il
August 1869 and for over 81 year:
this city was her home.
Her husband, John Weireiter, dice
fourteen years ago. She was a mem
Der of the German Evangelical
church of this city, was a good wife
mother, neighbor and friend.
She leaves seven children living
They are George and Mary of thi:
city. John of Chicago, Mrs. M. Has
LANCER of South Bend Mrs, Weld
mann, Mrs. Reese and Mrs. Ketz
berger of indianapolis.
Funeral at the German church II
this city at 2:30 p M Tuesday, con
Quoted by the Rev. Mr. Goffner of tn
German Lutheran church of South
Bend: interment at Oak Hill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Taxing of Wealth.

If an inheritance tax and an income
tax are to be proposed, why aim at
those gigantic accumulations of CAPT
tai which are generally disliked be-
cause of the character of their own
ers, and not at all the obscure mil
lionaires, such as most Americans
would like to be, who enjoy the OPP
portunities and protection of the law:
The taxation of wealth as such
through income and inheritance taxes
should begin somewhere above the
point of subsistence and REASONABLE,
thrift, and be graduated so that the
millionaire or multi-millionaire be
not the exception or victim of rule
but an incident in system. These
taxes should be imposed upon large
fortunes not as penalty as though
for wrong-doing but as a matter of
justice, because great wealth implies
extraordinary rights and unusual OBJ
York World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
The Gibson-Jacoby Wedding.

Charles Herbert Gibson and Miss
Harriet f. Jacoby were married at
the Episcopal church at o'clock
Wednesday evening by Rev. w. S.
Howard.
1t was very pretty wedding and
was very largely attended. Supper
was served by Bowel at the Ply
mouth Inn and the bride and groom
went east on the OILS p. m train.
Both of these young people are too
well known in Plymouth to need any
introduction here. They begin mar
ried life with bright prospects for the
future which hundreds of friends
hope will be fully realized.
They will make their home in this
city where both grew to manhood
and womanhood.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
The State of Oklahoma.

The people of the prospective state
of Oklahoma are rightly giving care
full attention to the framing of their
constitution, and both parties have
nominated their best men for the var
ious Offices. OklahomA. the forty
sixth state, will be the largest in pop
ulation that ever entered the Union.
The territories of which it is COM
posed have 100000 inhabitants
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

The nonvegetarian citizen will re
joice in the knowledge that the chick
en- population of the United States
in 1900 was 23O,OO0,0O0 and at pres
ent approaches 3o0,O0o,0o0 Turkeys
numbered more than 100000, ducks
more than 100000 and geese as
many, though that seem, an under
estimate for geese, everything con
sidered. The yearly consumption 81
chickens is more than 300,000,000
though not few, it appears, are car
ried over from year to year indefinite
ly in. cold storage for the ultimate
benefit of the hapless boarder.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Joke win Cost Iowa $4,000.

All because of the thoughtlessness
of 1000 Iowa voters the name of An
drew Townsend Hisey of Tama, Ia,
will go on the official ballot for the
November election, an expense OF
$4,000 will be incurred as the result
and a huge joke, unlike anything be-
fore perpetrated upon a common
wealth has been worked on the
Hawkeye state Hisey, an eccentric
old man, has lived at Tama for fifty
years. He has studied a great deal,
and written number of books on
his hobbies. Some acquaintance pro-
posed to him as joke that he run
for governor. He took the idea Sc
riously, and started on canvass for
signers' on his petition asking that
his name be placed upon the official
ballot He was successful
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

The National Union OF Mo'l.en
Workers of Great Britain has cast
firebrand into the world by taking
the position that women are not a.
honest as men. The principal speak
er gave as illustrations of the case
women who cheat at games, who
talk of having servants when they
have none; who, without authority,
read other persons letters, and who
listen TO conversations not intended
for their ears" The audience OF
women did not seem to take offense
and another speaker maintained that
the public expected lower sense
of honor among women than among
men,"
Is this true? A favorite illustration
of woman's dishonesty is her lack OF
conscience about smuggling, which Is
generally conceded. Perhaps thai
gives a key to the problem. Woman's
process of reasoning as to smuggling
starts with the proposition that it
harms no one. The men have made
law requiring her to pay tax on
goods purchased abroad. She had
no hand in making the law. She
wants the Paris or London goods
She takes not cent from any person
only from that abstract thing, the
Government. And if she pays, like
enough some man will steal the mon
ey eventually.
Woman is more influenced by her
feelings than man. She sympathizes
with the condemned murderer, while
man says ct serves him right" In
that case somebody is being injured
Satan knew the sexes. He tried Eve
first with the apple. What difference
did it make? 1t harmed nobody to
eat an apple. Why should she be
shut out from opportunity on mere
abstract principle? Surely no harm
could come from swiping an apple.
But when Satan wanted a murderer
he hunted up Cain. Somebody was
to be INFUSED in that case 1t was
not an abstract question of right and
wrong.
The difference in temperament of
the sexes makes a difference in the
standards of honesty. Woman may
have little conscience about Snug
Cling, but try other tests. Are men
more loyal to their wives than wom-
en- are to their husbands? Are men
more observant of their duties to
their children than women' Are
men more careful not to infiict injury
on others than women are? Will a
man give up drink more quickly
than a woman because of the suffer
ing it entails But what have these
to do with honesty? Everything. on
one standard. They are what you
owe. Society is compact The
family relation is contract, as much
as note or mortgage is.--Indian-
apolis Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Bryan on Dreams.

In his speech at Plymouth W. J..
Bryan said:
Democratic ideas have not grown
because | advocated them but have
grown because | have advocated
Democratic ideas. | owe infinitely
more to Democratic ideas than Dem
ocratic ideas will ever owe to me.
Il am glad therefore, to bring you
a word of encouragement, and the
character. of my address is determin-
ed somewhat by an address that was
made by Senator Beveridge in my
home city of Lincoln, Neb He Wis
tied our city not long ago and made
a brilliant speech, and part of it was
devoted to me as resident of Lin
coin. He said many nice things
about me, for which | am duly CRATE
full. But, after having carefully con-
sidered my case he decided that
was a dreamer, while the President
was doer of things.
well, when | first read the speech
it did not make deep impression
on me, but | learned afterward Gov
ernor Cumn,ins called me dreamer,
and then that Speaker Cannon called
me a dreamer, and then that Cover
nor Hanly called me dreamer
"The Bible says that by the testi-
mony of two or three witnesses a
truth may be established, and | am
afraid that with four prominent men
testifying solemnly before public Off
GERS that / am a dreamer | may be
found guilty, and rather than put my
denial against the testimony of such
men | have decided to plead guilty
and justify it So l have commenced
to look up the subject of dreams and
dreamers, and l find that one poet,
think it was John Boyle or Riley,
said that the dreamer lives forever.
while the toiler dies in day
But, my friends, sometimes poets
speak with poetic license, and | never
liked to found my case entirely on a
quotation from a poet. So whenever
get into real tight place | always
go back to the Bible and see what
authority l can find there And | find
the Bible speaks of dreams and of
dreamers, and | have made careful
investigation, and SO far as | have
been able TO find, the most promi-
nent dreamer mentioned in the Bible
was Joseph. His brothers called him
a dreamer"
When one day his father sent him
TO visit his brothers while they kept
their flocks in Douthan they saw him
coming. and they said, Here comes
he dreamer" and they plotted to kill
him. And then they decided, instead
of killing him, that they would put
him in a pit and say that some ami
nal slew him, and then, when some
MERCHANTS came along, they said, 1--WE
will sell him to the merchants. and
the merchants took him down into
Egypt, and after a while his brothers
went down and got corn of the
dreamer.
"And. my friends, have always
thought that il was good in Joseph
m LET then, have the corn have
been looking the matter up, and ! am
not sure, but what the Democrats
have been dreaming some. and now
hey are prepared to furnish the corn
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Postmaster General George B,
Cortelyou will retire from the chair.
manship of the Republican national
committee before he becomes secre-
try of the treasury in succession to
Secretary Shaw This statement was
made on excellent authority 1t has
been generally understood that Sec
rotary Shaw would retire from the
treasury March 4, but an intimation
was given that he might sever his
connection with the department ear
lier.
Harry S. New, of Indianapolis, vice
chairman of the Republican national
committee, will, it is expected, as
sumo the duties of chairman when
Mr.. Cortelyou retires.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Marriage of a Former Plymouth
Girl

The announcement by Mr.. and
Mrs. H. V. Reed of the marriage OF
their daughter, Myrtle Reed to Mr..
James Sydney Mccullough, all OF
Chicago, has been received in Ply
mouth. The Reeds were residents OF
this place twenty-five years ago, Mr..
Reed having brought the "Restitu-
ton" here and during his residence
of several years was its editor, and
he also preached for the Advent
church. Since then they have resided
in Chicago where Miss Myrtle Reed,
the bride, has developed into one OF
the best writers of fiction in this
country Shuman, the Chicago Rec
ord Herald's book reviewer, writing
from New York this week, says
Myrtle Reed-or should we say Mrs
Mccullough now?-is one of the
Chicago authors whose books are the
largest SELLERS" on the lists of their
several publishers. G. p. Pntnam's
Sons are especially pleased with the
reception of her latest, "A spinner in
the Sum-" calling attention to the
significant fact that every new story
from her pen commands wides au-
dience than the one before" Another
significant fact is, that her royalties
on the books she has already written
and published by the Putn;ms are
larger than any other author except
President Roosevelt Her many
friends in Plymouth send her hearty
greetings and earnest wishes for her
present, future and everlasting happi-
ness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Mistaking a package containing a
stick of dynamite and a bottle OF
nitro-glycerin for useless rubbish
Miss Lena Beahlers, a chamber-maid
in the Aetna powder mill boarding
house, in Porter county, kicked it
aside Wednesday afternoon and caus'
ed an explosion which may cost her
her life. Besides giving the town a
bad scare, the force of the explosion
tore out one end of the boarding
house, causing considerable damage
Miss Beahlers is in Chicago hos
pital, one of her legs having been
torn off and the other may have to be
amputated because of its mangled
condition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
The Congressional Outlook.

What are the probabilities at this
stage OF the campaign in regard 10
the complexion of the next House
of Representatives? There are Re-
publican forecasts-our correspon-
dent Sumner" refers to them in his
New York letter. and Democratic
forecasts, of course, but there are
also the estimates of impartial OBJ
servers of the situation.
In spite of the apathy" and ''leth-
argy' OF whcih even such prominent
campaigners as Cannon and Secre:
tary Shaw have complained, it is the
belief of the Republican managers OF
the congressional canvass that the
House will remain Republican by a
SUBSTANTIAL majority. There will, i.
is admitted, be losses in number of
states. The majority of ia, obtained
Two years ago in consequence of the
Roosevelt tidal wave" is abnormal
under ordinary political conditions,
and tho record of all former ''off
years foreshadows a reduction OF il.
Forty-one of the districts carried oy
the Republicans in 1904 had been
carried by the Democrats in 1892, anu
many of these may return to the
Democratic column.
However, even if the Democrats
should capture all of them-an un-
likely contingency-it is pointed OUT
that the Republicans would still be
left in control of the House by a
majority of 30. AS matter of fact,
the consensus of opinion in Republi
can circles is that the party in power
is almost certain to command a much
larger majority.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

By o'clock on the night of Nov.
9th the people of Indiana should
have report Of how, approximately
$4,000 of the voters of the state have
cast their ballots. By that time this
year, full returns should be received
from Marion, Vanderburg. Vigo,
Montgomery. Delaware and Newton
counties, every one of whose voters
on Nov. 9th will vote by machine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Election Commissioners Decide.

The supreme court does not seem
to be mandating election commits
sioners down in the Third District.
The commissioners of Orange coun-
ty have decided to place the name of
William f. Cox on the ballot under
the rooster as the regular Democratic
candidate for congress in the Third
District The name of W. T. Zenor
who also claims to be the Demo
cratic nominee was placed on the bal
lot under a star as the emblem.
At Jacksonville the election COM
missioners decided that w. t. Zenor
was the regular nominee and his
name shall be placed on the ballot
under the emblem of the roos. err in
Clarke county.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Zenor Quits Fight.

In long letter issued to the voters
of the Third District, Congressman
w. T. Zenor withdraws from the bit
ter factional fight with w. F. Cox,
leaving the latter a clear field in his
candidacy for Congress against
George II. Hester. Zenor declares
in this letter that the Democratic
State committee has retracted the
charges of fraud in the Floyd County
primaries, which were held over the
protest of the State committee, and
that his action is prompted by his
desire for party harmony.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

committee and a statement over his
own signature was in evidence that a
chairman of a committee is not a
member of committee and can only
execute the orders of the committee
If every Republican of Marshall
county had been present at this trial
before the commissioners there
would not be a corporaps guard 10
follow the boilers.
Attorneys Kellison and Parks ar
gued the case Saturday morning and
the commissioners, began their an
alysis of it in the afternoon.