The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

Only Republican Newspaper in the County.
Entered at the Postofice at Plymouth, In
diana as secondclass matter
Plymouth, Ind, January 8, 1907.
The motto of congress in getting up
a rivers and harbors bill should be,
Study the needs of the country"
instead of See the chairman.
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Senator Foraker may be and un-
doubtedly is a very able man, but he
has undertaken a tremendous task in
trying to stop the flow OF messages
from the White House.
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The new legislature of Indiana
will meet next week and it should
work for the welfare of the people
of the state and not for the advan-
tage of any political party.
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A statistician says it would take
forty-mise solid train loaded with
silver dollars of par value to pay
for this years agricultural yield in
the United States The trouble would
be to get the cars not the products
or the money.
The London Saturday Review
thinks the United States would be
whipped in war with Japan. This
British periodical was never known
to guess right on an American topic,
in addition to which no such war can
be stirred up by grapevine promoters.
The Indianapolis News says the
school fund of Indiana has been rob-
bed OF hundreds of thousands of dol |
lars through the practice of remit
ting fines The fines belong to the
school fund and prosecuting attor-
neys have no right to bargain them
away.
The treasury department has a |
large bulge in its Christmas stocking
in the form of a surplus of oves $22.-
100000 for rhe current fiscal year |
The first six months of the fiscal |
year will soon be over, and all the |
indications are that the surplus for |
that period will be a healthy one-in
the region of $4,000, 900.
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1t is suggested that the govern
ment cash balance is so large that |
s117, 900 of the public debt matur-
ing next year can be paid off in a |
lump without inconvenience. Here is |
the first ammunition for the Demo
Gratis in the next campaign. They
have always regarded surplus as a.
synonym for superfuity
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For the coming year nothing bet
ter can be wished for the people oil
the United States than that they
shall continue to overtax the facil-
tiles of labor and capital and be able
to duplicate the record of 1906, which
Secretary Shaw pictures as grow
ing more crops than we can harvest
and harvesting more than We can
haul to market"
Metsker says Hendricks was eff
fectively disposed of by Chairman
earn before election" How about
that speech being so effectively dis
posed of before it was delivered at
the Democratic Congressional con-
yention at Plymouth on August 30,
1906, and that Prince Albert suit OF
clothes that never was w,rn = de-
liver said speech all in the city of
Plymouth on the day and date afore-
said.
John d. Rockefel'er's Christmas
gift to the Chicago University was
$4,000, 900 making twenty millions
which he has contributed since the
university was founded. About $40,-
900, of this amount was given by
Mr.. Rockefeller to increase the salar-
les of teachers for the year 1907.
There is no danger OF teachers in
that university suffering for want OF
the necessities of life while Rookie
Teller lives.
The 1906 books have been closed
The balances make such favorable
showing on the right side of the led
ger that the year goes down in COM
mercial history as the best the Unit
ed States has ever enjoyed. The to-
tails have disheartened the pessimist
and made the optimist wonder. AT
the dawning OK the new year conser-
vative Business leaders can not con-
ceal their aniazement and the belief
that 1907 is to be good business
year seems general
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By a significant coincidence, the
decline in the money rates and the
rise in stocks occur almost simultan
eously with the publication of the
official figures of the secretary of ag
riculture, which show the largest ag
gregate of farm products which the
United States ever produced This is
close 70 100000. Of course, no
otsr country ever showed an aggre-
gate of farm products of half this
vafue As fhe farm is still at the