Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

1 he Jubilee. The last sixty years have been great ones in the history of England, but they have been even greater ones in the history of this land of ours.—Baltimore American. John Bull has time to turn from the serious business of the month and indulge in a characteristic bit of English humor. He calls us land-grabbers.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The American contingent in London seems to have done all it could to make the jubilee affair a big success. Let us hope her majesty is duly grateful.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It. is to be hoped that the Prince of Wales made the most of this diamond jubilee, as the chances are very much against his ever having one of his own.— Washington Star. Annexation, With both Hawaii and Cuba on the bases, President McKinley will have a great opportunity to make a double annexation play.—Washington Post. Hawaii is at least affording a little diversion. When some of the Senators tire of annexing Cuba they can turn in and annex the other island for a while. —Chicago Record. Speaking of Hawaiian annexation, it is pertinent to remark that if Uncle Sam would attend to his own business he would have more business to attend to.— Louisville Courier-Journal. With Hawaii as a part of the Union, we should have to look forward to the day when it would be a State. Think of a presidential election hanging on the mongrel vote of those islands!—Baltimore News. Cuba. Weyler's trocha is apparently successful. It still keeps the insurgents out of Havana.—lndianapolis News. If Weyler could only have a dose of his own medicine, what a hemp festival it would be for the paciticos!—Louisville Times. Spain is anxious to know what the Unit.ed States are going to do. The same 1 anxiety prevails over here.—Detroit Free Press. Weyler says he needs (>O,OOO more troops. This just by way of proving that the Cuban revolution is already suppressed.—New York Journal.