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Carroll Sentinel. DEMOCRATIC. fa. BY POWERS 8t COLCLO. THURSDAY DECEMBER 2, 1897 Subscription, one yeai 2.00 If paid In advance 1,50 Advertising rates furnished on Rates ore based on actual circulation, and our books are open to any 'Vivertiser.

Entered at the postofflce at Carroll, Iowa, as second class matter. Published Weekly ill two parts. The new code raises the exemption from taxes of homesteads of soldiers' widows from $500 to $800. The congressional program for the next few months is rattier obscure as Tom Reed has been keeping rather quiet of late. The supreme headquarters of the A.

P. A. at Washington, D. has been closed and the furniture, sold under the hammer. J.

D. McGnrraugh, who is slated for custodian of the capitol, is an A. P. A. and Governor-elect Shaw is having all sorts of trouble over his selection.

Uncle Sam says to Germany, "Hands off Hayti! The Monroe doctrine is loaded and is liable to go off if any foreign country goes. to fooling with it. The state of Dubuqne has reformed and petitions of consent for saloons have been filed, for the first time since the passage of the mulct law, although the saloons have been doing business the time. Secretary Gage is a cheerful optimist. With the deficit growing at the rate of about a half million a day he still thinks the deficit will be only twenty or twenty-five millions for the fiscal year.

Mr. Gage still thinks the can be fdoled. Eugene Moore, ex-auditor of the state of Nebraska, has been sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary for embezzling state funds. The robberies of Moore and other Republican state officials aided materially the Democrats and Populists to secure control of the state. Last year, with free silver as the issue, the Republicans carried the sixth Illinois district by a plurality of 6,579.

This week, with free silver again the issue, they carried it by a plurality of but 840. If the silver issue is dead, as so many gold-bugs affirm, what wonld it do if it were Telegraph. The Iowa congressmen do not take kindly to Secretary Gage's plan to rc- tire the greenbacks and Hepburn says if snob a measure is passed there will not be a Republican member returned from Iowa next fall. Nevertheless all of them will vote for it if Reed and the administration say eo, or else put in the winter dodging the issue. Minister White has asked Germany to specifically state what it intends toward Hayti.

He incidentally remarked that if the acquisition of territory, annexation, or anything of that kind is proposed Uncle Sam will have a band in 'the game. The Monroe doctrine is fully established and Germany will do well to respect it. It is right and should and will be enforced, one Uncle 8am can do it, too. Representative P. A.

Smith of Greene county IB talked of as a candidate for speaker. Mr. Smith will uol be speaker. He settled that matter, thinks the Den Moines Leader, when, against the orders of his party bosses, be signed the majority report of the special house committee on printing and binding. His political shroud was then made out of "skiver." This should not bo BO, but nevertheless il is so.

The Republican are admitting thai so the Diugley turift" bill has proven a disappointment. It bus failed by tbout $40,000,000 during tho nrat four of its existence to provide revue enough to meet tho running ox Ileuses of the government. They still Lope against hope that "something will turn up" to wake it a success. In order to bolster up the rapidly depleting treasury they tiro disposing of mortgaged railroads in which tho government is interested ut "any old price." The rank autl file of the Republican party have boon duped uud hoodwinked by tboir party loaders who forced the Diugley deficit bill through congress. Thoroughly liouent UH the great majority WUH iu their beliof that the bill WUB for the purpose of providing Buttloiout revenue, the methods UBod to juin tlut bill through to iluul puuBugo ut the behest of few intercut- ed served to uluriu them, und now HB lamentable failure to pro- Tide even HO much revenue us the measure which it repealed, brings out in all its hideousness the fact that it is not a revenue measure at all, but simply a bill for the protection of the sugar and other trusts.

The time for the punishment of the recreant congressmen will come next fall and the punishment will be none the less severe because delayed. One of the district judges has decided that the law that requires peddlers to pay $25 license in each county in which they do business is unconstitutional. Thus, little by little the crude work which it took so much time and money to get onto the statute books is being undone by the courts. The extra session of the last legislature was one of the most useless things that Iowa ever squandered a lot of money on. Congress will convene next Monday and the question of annexing the conglomeration of lepers, savages and Mongolians of the Hawaiian islands will hold a prominent place in the debates.

Unless there was a big job in this annexation scheme there would not be a handful of supporters for the plan in the entire congress, but the opinion seems to prevail that enough votes will be mustered to pass it. It will prove a rotten borough and a source of endless trouble and expense to Uncle Sam, with no corresponding benefit. Senator Jones of Arkansas declares that "if the Republicans force a vote on a general scheme of alleged currency reform in the senate it will certainly come out of that body a free coinage measure. Of that there can be no doubt, and any man who thinks to the contrary does not understand the temper of the sqnate as at present constituted." If Senator Jones is correct, the people steed have no fear that the Republicans will force a "general scheme of Alleged currency reform." The money power holds too stiff a rein on tihem to allow any fooling of that kind. Under the law the soldiers' home managers entitled to draw 810 per month for each inmate from the state funds for the maintairiance of the home.

They have been construing this to mean $10 for each person on the rolls, but the attorney general decides they must be actual residents of the home. This means a reduction of $1,700 per month at the home management has been drawing money for 170 people who have not been at the home at all. Jnst another instance of the careless management of the state institutions, for which the tax payers are paying heavily. Mark Twnin's account of the riot in parliament at Vienna on Thanksgiving day IB distinctively his own. Mark was present at the time and says he had the melancholy privilege of seeing the "spectacle and flash" of those "sixty spiked helmets" enter the parliament and with the iron heel of absolutism crush constitutional liberty uuder fobt.

He says, "In America this would have made trouble. It may cause a disturbance here, but nol eveu the wisest man knows whether il will or not." He closes by saying it was a "supreme tragedy." This gives a faint idea of the way an American views liberty under a despotic form ol government. Patriotic admirers of President Me Kinley may prepare themselves for a severe blow on the Cuban question. The president thinks that radical action would be serious breach of the proprieties. When a nation is being exterminated at our very doors iu the most cruel aud bloodthirsty manner the man who at proprieties can not understand the popular demand for help for our struggling neighbors lighting for their liberty.

Tho plot to steal Hawaii is occupying HO much of tho time of tuouc who have tho ear ol the president that no time can be wasted on Biioh a trilling matter as the butchery of hundreds of thousaudB of non-combatants in Cuba. Tho Verdict. The verdict at the court martial trial of Ouptaiu Lovoriug was "guilty," uud that the captain be "reprimanded by the reviewing ollluorB." It in understood that the administration ut Washington does not think the pun IItn the crime. As tho presi dent huw the authority to substitute another form of punishment it may bo that the oaptuiu may not osoupo BO ousily. If the report of the evidence given out from the trial is correct it doot) not Byoiu possible that Jbo proai- dout will allow tho vovdiot to stand.

It will be libol upon tho American ui'iuy to buy that uu olliuer uuu trout private brutally as Lovoriug did llurnmond uud thoii ouuupe with blight reprimand. If uuch relations exist betwoou ofllcora uud iu the regular army that the latter ate treated as menial slaves, then the army a disgrace to the nation. We do Hot believe that this is the trite condition of affairs in the army and for that reason think that Lovering should receive such punishment as his deeds nstly entitle him to. The decision of the president in the premises will be mown in a few days. The Cubans.

The Cuban insurgents appear to be over-enthusiastic and too arbitrary to meet the demands of bettor judgment. They soy that any Cuban officer who shall even entertain a proposal of autonomy shall be court-martialed aud hot, and that any emissary of Spain or of any Spanish general who shall mng a proposal of autonomy to their ines shall be hanged as a spy. The New York World says that the demand for absolute independence is right enough, and after Cuba's experience with Spanish deceit' the 3nban patriots are fully justified in making independence their ultimatum. But when they threaten ignominious death to any man who shall propose or consider any modified form of settlement they suggest at least that there is division of sentiment among themselves, and that they do not dare trust even their honored leaders to consider and reject proposals of a less radical nature. The Hampton Roads conference during our own civil war was brought to naught by a precisely similar attitude on the part of Jefferson Davis, who forbade his commissioners even to consider or listen to the only proposals with which Mr.

Lincoln could possibly open the discussion. But the temper of our senate goes far to justify the extreme attitude of the Cubans, and wonld do so even if there were no memory of past deceit and trickery to close the ears of Cubans to Spanish promises. There seems very little doubt that Mr. McKinley will be forced by congress to accept an aggressive attitude in this matter. The country is strongly disposed to say "must" to Spain, and surely the time is ripe.

Germany has been notified that the United States will not tolerate any movement looking toward the annexation of Hayti as a result of the recent trouble there. Germany as well as England may as well understand first as last that the Monroe doctrine is very much alive in this country and it doesn't make any difference who is in the president's chair, either. Uncle Sam will permit no European country to gobble up American territory under any pretext whatever, The Dingley deficit bill is the most stupendous hoax of recent legislation. Leaders of the Republican party have for years harped on the deficit by the Wilson bill and said that the lack of sufficient revenue was the cause of the panic. Congress was called in extra session for the purpose of passing a bill to provide sufficient revenue and the administration and Speaker Reed labored and brought forth a measure that is enlarging and increasing the deficit every day.

It is now nearly fifty millions for the five months of the fiscal year and bids fair to be the largest for the year that has been caused by any measure since the war, The extra session of congress was about as costly and useless an experiment for the nation an. the extra session of the legislature was for Iowa, Or. onsen concludes there is no polar ioe cop, nothing in short to mark the where the north pole, if there wore any north polo really, would appear and point upward into the air There is probably nothing at that charmed spot but water and ice. The fond dream of a polar continent has boon gradually dissipated as year by year explorers edged nearer aud nearer to tho poiut whore latitude roaches tho jumping off place and longitude is not. Organization is tho order of the day.

It is the of the times. Those whose interests lie along tho same path arc uniting everywhere. They consult together they form dabs; they hold conventions, at which measures are taken to strengthen the bond of union and to forward tho interests of all tho members as of ouo inuu. The solidarity of the race is showing itself. Tho original truth that all mankind are brethren aud that tho good of ouo uud tho good of all is idouticul shines sun oleur as tho nineteenth century vanishes uud tho twentieth stops upon tho soeuo with its glad young fuoe and elastic step.

Surely thin uiiivATNul tendency to organization among moii and womou is tho foreshadowing of better things to come, the porcout of thut time wheu all muukiud, rioh uud poor, will bo organized lute ouo grout union, tho iu tor oats of whose members will bo the J. A. of Antiquity, wus for.thli'ty yours uoodlunbly tortured by physicians for the euro of llo wus quickly ciui'ui) by using DeVYlU's Witch Hazel Bulvo, tho fumoun sulvo for piles uud skin TuiuU)i', Mr, Quid Hides Mas Vieffvnwi.j In and about New York, when il not in and about London, is an can who did well iu the tobacco line some years ago, quite well iu fact, so that he was able some time since to set up his own carriage, We do not know that he emblazons on the osmago the celebrated heraldic motto of Sydney Smith, "Quid rides," but the sale of many million quids to a godless, tobacco chewing, American generation enabled him to buy up an assortment of fast horses. Then, like Mr. Richard Croker, he went to England to lope into British high life through the highway of the racetrack.

We observe that Mr. Quid Rides has just got back from a trip to see his British friends. Like most Americans who have more money than brains, Mr. Quid Is full of praises of the British aristocracy and full of condemnation for his fellow countrymen. Where, may one ask, wonld Mr.

Quid's social position have been if it had depended on the sale of tobacco among the British aristocracy? That, however, is neither here nor there. Mr. Quid says the English have hawah of our American politics and our ways generally, have so little faith hi us that they will not invest in American securities. Considering the fact that there are at this moment at least $800,000,000 of good British money invested in American securities which pay their owners twice ai much, as could be got at home, this statement is news indeed. Again, Mr.

Quid Rides remarks: "I like the English turf. English turfmen are gentlemen." Yes. To begin, there is his royal highness the Prince ot Wales, whose open admiration is fatal to the good name and future prospects of any respectable woman unlucky enough to exoite it There, for instance again, that is to exquisitely high toned gentleman "Squire" Abingdon Baird, the most famous member of the English turf in recent years, he who blacked Mrs. Langtry's eye with his own solid British and brutish fist and paid her $50,000 for it Oh, yes! These be gentlemen of the first water. There are others.

But what can one expect? We can't all be English, and we can't all get rich selling "mechanic's delight" and "nigger bead." The United States board of general appraisers has been wrestling with the clause in the tariff law which exempts "works of art" from duty on entering this country. The particular point oi discussion was to tell what is a work oi art That no man can da The board therefore looked at the question from the other side and defined what a work of art is not Under the final ruling no copy of an art production, however beautiful and finely finished it may be, is a work of art in the meaning of the law. It is merely a copy of such. Again, 'no design prepared by an artist in thii country and sent abroad to be wrought out by artisans in a marble, bronco, wood or other kind of factory across the water is a work of art The work when it comes home on a steamer and passes the custom house is merely a mechanical production, coming directly into compe tition with home industries. There is a whimsical humor in the 'large vote polled by Rev.

Dr. Swallow, 'Prohibition candidate for state treasure! of Pennsylvania. Or. Swallow is man ager of the Methodist Book Concern in Philadelphia. The foot that he polled 100,000 votes for a state office in Penn sylvaniu, which, with the exception ol New York, has the largest foreign popu lation of any state iu the Union, is a Striking one.

He carried nine countiei entire. Perhaps there was something iii the good doctor's name, Swallow, as belonging to a Prohibition candidate, that tickled the fancy of voters and drew their support. The availability of magnetism Ma power in industrial operations is strik iiigly illustrated at the British arsenal, Woolwich. Great magnets are used to lift shells and armor plates. Silently, powerfully the mysterious servant grup pies with its invisible fingers the huge plates and holds them till they are swung into place.

By regulating the force of the charging cur rout it is even possible to lift one plate or many, ae may be desired. Will you sell me some fast quick, with quick tiring guns to scare the United States? says Spain to caimj British shipbuilder. "You do us honor, replies the British builder. "Noth ing would give as greater pleasure thuu to sell you cruisers to whip our brothur of the United States; terms, spot ouBJi, please." But Spain has not the cash and cannot get it. Tho deal fulls through.

It is declared to bo fact that the Thompsons, British ure holding back four torpedo boat destroyers which they finished year because Spain cuuuot pay cash for tho veaseU awd the liriu will not tnut her for the inatiey. Thus low bus proud nation fullou, aud it aorvos hw right. If they Are turned out according to contract, tut tho of tho uuvy vuts they ihull bo, the torpedo bouU uud Wiusiow, now building ut Baltimore, will bo an fast tis uuythiug The contract roquirou thorn to L.UYO of knots uu hour, THE LEADER- Department Store ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST You are called to attend not once or one day, but every day, the original and only bargain house in Carroll and Carroll county. Our "shower of BARGAINS never ceases. UNDERWEAR Men's Heavy Fleeced Lined Underwear Men's Heavy Bibbed Shirts and Drawers to match Men's Fine Australian Underwear, a $1.50 Garment, at Ladies' Heavy Fleeced Lined Vests and Pants.

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Department Store. Great Estates In America. The tendency of men who have made fortunes in trade to acquire great conn- try estates, in imitation of the European been pronounced in the past 95 yean. The general plan has been for the rich man to buy out a dozen or 20 or 80 farmers and throw their lands all into one baronial estate. Lawns are laid out, driveways constructed, artificial lakes made, and miles of sightly landscape are the result The former owners of the farms meanwhile drift heaven knows where, to the factory, to the city or perhaps 1 or 8 out of 80 become tenant fanners for the great landlord and live and work under bis orders on the farms that they and their families bave owned for The land which formerly produced a living for from 30 to 80 families becomes under the great estate system a mere playground for one family.

It is removed from the list of actually productive agricultural lands. It is a question well worthy of serious consideration whether these great estates of from 600 to 10,000 acres are a good thing for the economic development of this Union. Lawns there ought to be, beautiful landscapes there ought to be, but when 1,000 acres of land is removed from productive agriculture it means that the families who before got their living from that land are thrown upon the labor market, to swell the great army of the unemployed. It is certainly best for the prosperity and the moral and intellectual well being of our nation that there should be great numbers of small, highly cultivated, productive farms, owned and lived on by intelligent country families possessing all the comforts and muuy of the luxuries of life, than that there should be a few great estates with one rich, arrogant landlord and a few bumble tenant farmers at his beck and call. It will be a sorry result of a ceutnry of republican institutions.

GO culled, if can show the world nothing bettor than an American peasant farmer class. As to Reformers. We observe that the reformers are at it again, growling, grumbling and roaring about the wickedness of the rich, the corruption of the government, the poverty of the poor, the hollowuess uud falseness of society and the mammon NIGHT! Germania Opera House JOLLY DELLA AND HER MERBY COMPANY Presenting for the first time here IN GUBfT Th $BOO Oaiioc. The Illustrated SOUKS. I Great Fire The Best Company in the west.

10, 80 AND 30 CENTS. I worship of the church. We have heart' the same howl now for many years. We have not noticed that it ever did any: human a mite of good unless it was the howlers themselves, who haps get a mournful satisfaction out ol easing their minds. What of it if it is all true? How if abusing the sinners to reform them? Instead of hurling anathemas at the rich for their extravagance and selfishness why does not the calamity howler study to show poor people how too, may become rioh? Why does he inform them iu economic science aud teach them to strengthen their wilU and their intelligence so they can lift themselves out of poverty? The government is corrupt, is it! Why not then go among the voters and persuade them to elect the right men to office.

They have this government wholly iu their hands, It is plenty enough for them, too, for they are the: ones who make it Our officers are elected, and they exactly represent the mew who choose them. Suppose a lion stood in one reformer's path. Would be get it out of tho way by sittiug down undJ cursing it? 0. 1 iiie sometimes inclined to regret' mankind ever learned to talk. i Buying your Clothing, Etc -AT THB- Qoslng Out Sale of "Piinoui" Cloildoa MtKMttt.