The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 18, 1897, Page 3

Ps “ enn ee . ! DeArmond Discusses Modern | | And the tendency is also for those) Legislation. Congressman DeArmond Sees in the Limitless Powers Given to Corporations, in thé Monarchi- eal Life Tenure of the Jadiciary and in Spurious Civil Service Reform a Departure From the Institutions of the Founders of this Government. Congressman D A DeArmond, in the Illustrated American, Oct. 30. The main purpose of the found ers in establishing this government of ours was to insure to themselves and to their posterity the possession and enjoyment of civic aud religious liberty. They proceeded upon th+ theory that the people sre the real source of power, aud that thoss who, from time to time, administer the government, should b+ servants, not masters. They repudiated the doc- trine of divine rights of Kiogs, and proc!aimed the divine right of the people. They «s:ayed to build an empire of people, wherein the power exercised by the goveraors should be derived, ia fact as well as in the ory, from the consent of the govern- ed The wise founders did not attempt to anticipate in detail the various phases of national life, as the years and centuries might disclose them. But they were careful to trace in the constitution the strong line of enduring principles, trusting to those who c#ms after them to apply those principles, in the light of the future, 60 us ever to preserve the lib erties of the people, by maintaining unimpaired the people's control over the people’s own government. The sages and herogs of the Dec laration of Independence, the revolu tion and the constitution knew well enough how free governments had been overthrown. It would accordingly be idle to doubt that they tried to put into their constitution ample powcr to withstand such evil agencies as had destroyed the popular governments of the past, upon whose wrecks they looked when planning the new gov- ernment for the American people Partiality in and under the law, by which wealth and power centered in the hands of the few, while burdens and wrongs became the growing portion of many—that had brought the death Thus the masses were driven, through suffering and despair, to the destruction of what of good re- mained, that, in the chaos of univer sal ruin, the intolerable evils of cor- rupt and tyrannical government might perish. If our government has kept true to the purposes of its founders, it has continued in the control of the taassee; has successfully resisted the assaults of the selfish aud unpatriot ic classes, who would take from the many for the benefit of the few. The question is not how our gov ernment compares to-day with the governments fashioned upon the theory that the few are born to rule and the many to serve But as we have grown greatly in population, extent of territory and wealth, have we followed closely the model of the founders, enlarging the structure without abandoning anything funda- mental or introducing anything an- tagonistic? The world may be bet- ter now than it wasa hundred years ago,marvelous advancement has besn made in the arts and sciences. But have the people of the United States received their full share of the rich harvest of the century? If so, the government thus far may have acbieved the sublime purpose of the foundera. Upon the other hand, can denied that by the aid of part's it be | careless and indifferent ‘al result from the working together in power to “magnify” their offices. | the bier of the Republic But the monarchical judiciary is out of power—the masses—to grow | upon us. The natur- ancient functions, but it reaching out with its long arm and wrongfully gathering more of power to itself. Life tenure is the canker of mon- arcby, eating ever at the heart of the Republic. Since money is the power which moves all the springs of business activity, itis but natural however reprehensible, for cupidity to turn to legislation for an unrighteous in crease of wealth, already too great Then stocks and bonds and money itself are legislated up aod ‘mds avd the products thereof are 'e is ured down; debts and taxes ar ne evel, aud tbe means of pay dminished. Surely +> nor tbe purpeses of the just of these tendencies is for power, and with it wealth, its mainstay, to slip from the possessionof the many end to concentrate in the hands of the) few. Some baye deplored the tyranny of majorities, but the historian of fallen republics must write of the usurpations and oppressions of minorities Majorities may bear too but when mivorities rule the majority invaria bly suff-r When we reflect that a few thou sand persons possess more than half of all the wealth of a mighty »-tion of 70,600,000 of people, inbabiting a vast territory of wondrous + e3 sarees it need no! be argued thing is wroug The foacde s of our republic never plaoned hard upon min rities; for good ton fou Discoveries aud iaventions ought t» inure wromptly to the benefit of mankind. It is perfectly proper. however, to secure to inventors such exclusive benefits from the fruits of their ge nius as shall recompense them rec. sonably ard stimulate others to patient effort in the great field cf the undiscoveted. But, with the same species of thoughtless recklessness a3 that which is responsible for too many corporations, our goveramest con tinues to give to inventors and their assignees monopolies for many years Not oaly this, but, generally, ip. ventions which work revolutions are nem +re tbat some ker a gov ernment ofafew dasgeroasly rich and many dangerously pocr. Well they knew that, ia the inevitable clash of these two dangerous classes the republics of cther days were de- stroyed. did: not govern- the tendencies and means of bringing thess antegonis Then, either the fouedars provide in their echems of ment against tie classes into existences aud carry- inal catastrophe i the recent our high duty of properly empioying the powers of our goyernmens for the welfare of the Let us take a hasty glance at some Or We past Lave failed in people wathered in by corporations fora mere pittance, and the soulless crea ture of legislation hold3 millions in the remorseless grip of monopoly. of the instrumentalities active in the evolution of the few millionaires, the many paupers acd tae still more numerous class which daily wage a a doubtful contest upon the border- The fathers never contemplated such abuse of tha taxing power, such waste of public revenues as we land between comparative comfort and pressing want It is not responsible to| people, nor is it content with its|vants and not as the irresponsible is ever! | bardensome; Ws) moth and far-reaching wrongs. and through tke partial! administra-| tion cf equal laws, a few | the nation? If so, the people have ob | elsewhere, that tained vastly more than their just | for the judiciar, portion of the wealth and power ¢ f /itects of our government marred; If popular rights are to be again} j g A > : £. . 1 4 1 t great work. Building freedom’s | the chief concern of the government} In the early days of the republic corporations were few; now they are numbered by hundreds of thou- sands There has been a reckless ness in their creation that is almost astounding; and every one of them, no matter how insignificant, has in it some element of sov-reignty, de rived from the governmental! store— the people's property. While many have been created for high purposes of greatest importance, many others have been brought into being with purposes purely selfish or positively bad. With the creation of each something of power departed from the many and centered in the few. Against these corporations, ex- empt from human disease and acci- dent and secure against untimely death, mortal men, men of flesh and blood, of hopes, affections, fears, have to contend. Worse, still, corporation combines with corporation; Leviathan is har nessed with Leviathan; monster trusts roll thea Juggernaut of mo nopoly over thousands of mea, wo- men and children Corporations have long had the footing of individual men in the law, and before the courts. With their extravagant multiplication in recent years the sncient error of treating these beings of man’s crea tion (too often the bad offspring of avery unwise exercise of creative energy) as the equals before the law. of God’s own creature, man, has wrought a world of hardehip and wrong. Communities have been despoiled and unborn millions eruelly burden ed through the wrongful application of the law concerning “commercial paper” and the“rights”of ‘innocent’ holders of avalanches of swindling railroad aid bonds and other like de vices for safe public plundering. It would be difficult, perhaps to find! in the plans or teachings of the fathers any support for such msm : “2 ” i It might be said here, as wel | in their provision ary the illustrious arek- | of this generation witness. Note the elaborate scheme of indirect tax- ation denominated “the tariff,” by means of which taxes are gathered according to the scale of the neces- sities of the men who pay them; whereas all just taxation must be de- termined by ability to pay. By this device more tribute is exacted than the government, honestly adminis- tered, requires; extravagance is en- couraged, extended, established; while no man really knows how much the tariff takes from him either for the government or for the ‘‘protect- ed.” More than a century ago it was adjudged by the supreme court of the United States that a federal tax upon carriages could not be consid- ered unconstitutional because not apportioned among the several states according to population. Some of the judges so decidiog had been members of the convention which framed the constitution. And their exposition in the carriage case, of that greatinstrument was respect ed as authoritative and controlling, until by a vote of five to four a su preme court of different men nulli fied the income tax provision of the Wilson tariff act of 1894. Had not a notable change in vot ing happened to one of the five we would yet be safe from the judicial revolution wherein wealth won and poverty lost. We may believe that the founders of our government did not dream of such things. They had in mind the sublime philosophy that all men are created equal. By their injunctions and receivers and constructive contempts these federal courts have become the man- agers of many of the mightiest cor- porations in the land, and exercise more arbilrary power then all the Caesars ever dreamed of. Crimes new and straoge originate in the dis ordered digestion of his honor, and for some fanciful ~contempt” the judge who accuses tries, condemns and punishes. O, mighty is the life- tenure judiciary! And dangerous for it is monarchy in the pathway of the Republic. an ax. 7 not been protected, their : full defenses with power has net been maintained, ac-! . hs cording to the foundation plan. | oe Sh Necessarily conditions bave been | Control of the ci greatly changed by the inventiors, | for a life-time judiciary. discoveries and developments of the | century. But the fundamental truths set forth in the coastitution remain unimpaired. Time can not affect that. aln st superhuman) ly gave monarchy } jekill, statesmen, Thomas Jefferson, saw some radical chenzes must The courts must be brought closer that the sable robes of the life ten-|to the people not to declare the law : Fs The tendency always is for those|ure judiciary sometime might cover|according to popular passion or ics c. C. fai 1, Arvegists £ refund’ money Bo be; wrought. The government, natioz- ‘foot was chopped as also wac the! jel by providing |al, state, city, town, village. must do | more of its own business and cenge | thought Pruitt willdie of his wounds. ; True, many of them perceived the | farming out of its functions to cor-| Both of the Weymier brothers have | {danger and vainly strove to guard | poratione; and corpcrations musi be against it. That greatest of liberty’s | held to stricter accountability. prejudice, but to enforcethe people's | justice, according to the people's! constituiion and laws, as the ser-/ and indifferent masters of the peo ple. The patent and other kindred, laws should be reformed so that | after the expiration of the “jimited” | time of the constitution (say two or | three years) all insentions shall be! at the service of the public upon | reasonable terms, to be ascertained | and declared by congress. | j | The laws themselves should not! be breeders of monopolies The! trusts must be broken up, if to do| soa busdred or a thousand more! peniteotiaries are required | Financial legis'ation should carry to the burdened masses the relief of | rising prices fur the commodities! which they produce That would be a double blessing, for it would be! also the equivalent of a fall in debts | and taxes. | People should be taxed upon what th-y make and have, and not upon what they lick and Taxes sould be so direct that every man may know what bis govirame ‘| costs him Then, and not until then, may we hope for decent economy, instead of | indecent ex gance in the conduct | Wai. of public eff With eoutrolled ecrporatio and contro!; « price and money reasonably hope to idle, wror formed in ge3, desperate men trans > ontent ed producers and sharers of wealth. The monarchists have bee to establish a life-tenure mivor appointees of our ment ‘Civil service reform” is what they style their assault upon repub- lican institutions. Certain politicians pretend to favor the fad and to ad- mire the political euruchs which it is designed to make ovt of the men. But by one device and another such politicians evade the civil ser vice laws, break the civil service cnlee. avd enjoy the sweets of hy- pocrisy and cowardice, artistically commingled. At this hour we may behold bow they gather the “spoils” while Ananias-like prating their de votion to ths mock-virtuous “reform” of the mugwump. There was none of this in the purposes of the fathers and founders Genuine civil service reform will come, to displace the spurious aud contemptible article now inflicted upon us, when the party manly enough t>ba worthy of the suffrages of American freemen shall provide for fair competition and sensible tests toescertain the qualifications of applicants for the stations to be filed, with an open ex-reise of choice by theapointing power among thoee found qualified, and a definite term of service for those selected Beauty is Blood Deep. Clean blood means aclean skin. No beauty withoutit. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keepit clean; by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Begin today to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking rets,-beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed l6c, 2c, 0c. A Family Fight. Nevada, Mo, Nov. 10 —News of a bloody family fight occurred in St. Clair county, 20 miles northeast of this city, has just reached bere. It occurred between the two Weymeier brothers and their brother in-law. a man named Pruitt. The parties had had bad blood between them for some time which culminated in a general hand to hand fight. The Weymeirs objected to the rough mavner in which their sieter wes treated by Pruitt. Pruitt threw a hatchet at one of ths brothers, which > & Vast n trying for the govern- struck him on the head laying balt| The wounded | |man attacke] his aesailent with a/® warm, of his sealp open. knife and bis brother joined in with | Pruitt was stabbed end fell! to the ground, when he was immedi-| ately attacked by the other brother/| with the ax. In the fight Pruitt’s! foot of ose of the Weymeirs. It ia: skipped the country. od | Educate Your Bowels With Cas- carets. SPE BRERA Rt F.J. TYGARD, President HON. J. B. NEWBEBRY, J.C. CLARK Vice-Pres't Cashier. THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BUTLER, mo. Saceessor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. EsTapuisurp Dec., 1870. oe A General Banking oe Business Transacted. Bates County Investment Co., BUTLER, MO. Capital, = = $50,000. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Choice securities always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined a MW ki 4 se) ~ nd all kinds of re . papers drawn, “en F. J. Tygarn, President. Jxo.C Hayes, Abstractor. Hon, J. B. Newnreny, J.C. Cx Vice-President. see Sec’y. & Treas. F, Warnocn, Notary. AR ARRAS RAAARRARRARARR BRAARFAR RRR AAR SEPODT ODS OPES SESE LS OHS OIGES IOS DOPIOOMOIONE OOF DOEEOOD $ + Leena nae ed G. W. CLARDY, Mayor. oe J.D. ELLWOOD, CLARDY, ELWOOD & CO.,, Succesors to CLanpy & Breyer, Real Estate, Loans» Abstracts.: We do a General Real Estate and Exchange Business, and Make a Specialty of Abstracts. We are now preparing a revised list of Lands, for sale or exchange Bring or send us complete description of your property. If with us, please give us new description and price. Yours for business, CLARDY, ELLWOOD & CO. < ee DDE HLS EE POD PODS 0 O09 00-00) 690000606 by us. you are } now listed OY OOD IDM OD OOOO 2OIOLO ( ALHODO OOOO | Farmer Proved an Easy Victim. The well known etinginess of the Mexico, Mo, Nov 11.—William | !ate Alexander Dumas has given rise Derringer started ina wagon from , toa variety of anecdotes. We are this city with bis family for Arkan | told that be was once asked whether sas He took some money with bim. | he ever gave anything to the poor, When not far from Hot Springs a/and he answered: “Oh, yee! when I man rode up to the wagon and told | come across a bad piece of money I them that as the country around | always give it away toa blind map.” there had heen victimized by coun | terfeiters of late they would have to | let him examine their money. When they turned it over to him he said he could not tell exactly, and they would have to go back with him to a town they had lately passed. They assented, and after they had fooled around the town in question some time the unknown party etatad that 1t would be necessary for him to go to the telegraph office and wire in regard to the money Derringer and his folks very foolishly allowed | him to take their money with him, and when he got to the depot he boarded a train just pulling out, and “never came back any more.” A KIDNEY DISEASE. Given Up by Four Doctors. Beaver Dam, O., Aug. 27th, 1807 My daughter. after being treated by four doctors. and bang sven up for lost. # neigh- bor recommended Foley’s Kidney Cure ‘o- day she 1s able to walk seven miles without fatigue. I feel we would have lost her if it was not for your medicine ete 3 Mrs. J. M. Bailey. AtJ A Trimble, druggist Reveals a Big Conspiracy. Washington, D. C., Nov. 11.—J. W. Zeveley of the Interior depart- ment, who was selected by Secretary Bliss to make an investigation of the reported issue of fraudulent war rants by the government to the | Creck Iodian Nation, has returned to Washington, afver sperding about @ month in the Indian territory mak- ing the inquiry. The investigation made by Mr. Zeveley established the fact that Isparhecher, the principal chief, has no knowledge whatever of the English language and that all the warrants purporting to have been iesued and signed by him were, m fact, issued and signed by an under eecretary in his office. The | investigation also developed the fact bined together to defraud the Creek government out cf a large sum of money. : It Hits the Spot. When suffering from a severe cold snd your throat and lungs feel sere, teke a dose of Foley’s Honey and Ta’ the soreness will be at once grateful feeling ing of the parte af- “A x- perienced and you will ao good. IT HITS THESPOT ecd. At. J. A, Trimble’s dra, State that a number of persons had com | tishe is mikisg abou; i | A model young man in Chicago | who neither drank nor smoked and | who attended Sunday school with | great regularity recently disappeared ‘ with $480 of his employer's money. |It is impossible to combine all of | the virtues in one personality. A Bridgeport, Conn., bride has jjuet undergone a severe surgical | operation to relieve a malady caused by the lodging of a grain of rice in jone cf her ears. Rice throwing at weddings is growing deservedly un- popular. Stick to old shoes—they are safe if not poetic. ( The Meadow Lawn Farn, consiet- ing of 260 acrer, near Mattoon, IIl., has been purchased by Grand Chief P.M. Arthur for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a home will be established for depend- ent engineere, their widows and orphans. Two triss buttons stamped with the icitials of the Duluth police department were recently found in | the stomach of a large moose, which is suspected of having eaten upa patrolman who has disappeared from Daluth. Blood Filtering. Impure blood is the cause of many of the diseases that aMict the body When the kid- neys are healthy the bi is cleansed of all waste matter and imparities, and it food, strength and energy to every part. If the kidneys are the impurities in the blood rapidly accumulate. decay and tarn to urle acid which poisons notonly the vital — ‘bat the very structure of the body it- self, producing dropsy and t's Prickly ash Bitters is s successfal kidney remedy It heals and strengthens the suffering kidneys, cleanses the liver snd assists the Sennen ane purifies the bowels, thus the ‘anction: carried the blood fs purified and healthy, ms prevail, Soild by McClement & Co, Mr. Van Wyck, the Tammany | mayor elect, isa bachelor. “Marri age,” be says, “is something that governs itself. The thing covsiets jin striking a balance between what | you want and what you can get.” | : j | A Sioux City woman merried the i wrong man by m'steke, bat as she llived with bim for ten months with- out finding out her b'ander, the fuss it now seems oui of place. The found ad woman who were stowed away in a piano bor The 2 ‘ 220, for ship- st your eycs it feel mean generally when you get up in the morn- ing. Your liver and Kidney are not doing their work. Why don’t you take Parks Sure cure. If it does not make u feel better it costs you nothing-— Sold sy H.L Tucker , mus. have been used to living in a flat. Mrs. Potter, the acires!, says there is not a3 much temptation sur- rounding stage life as in a social ‘career. This can probably be con- sidered an expert opinion. A thonsand years ago or more coal wa< cailed fos-ii fuel.