Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

The domestic coaling station is beginning to attract renewed attention.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We coll our navy heroes sons of Mars. The Spanish say they fight like sons of guns.—Boston Globe. The Czar might suggest as a preliminary that the Austrian reicharath should disarm.—'Memphis Commercial-Appeal. When it comes to wheat this country refuses to hide its light under hundreds of millions of bushels. —Philadelphia Times. Miss Clara Barton was able to get into Cuba when she had nobody but the Spanish to reckon with.—Philadelphia Ledger. The question is no longer open to argument as to who is the Wizard of the Nile —Kitchener or the khalifa.— Washington Post. There are 2,000,000 more bachelors than old maids in the United States. Get a sprint on yep, girls.—Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal. Admiral Dewey’s signature may be awful, but he is able to make his mark just the same, so that all nations understand. 4-Washington Post. The international disarmament idea ia growing rapidly. Ea<& nation is now will* ing for the others to lay down their arms. —Kansas City Journal. It Is believed that if Aguinaldo were made dram major of a military hand he would cease to be a source of trouble.— Kansas CHy Journal. Gen. Jauderez advises Madrid that it would take 60,000 men to reconquer the Philippines for Spain. We really believe it would.—Boston Globe.

France Reaps the Whirlwind. The bell which tolls for the funeral of Lieut. Col. Henry of the French army will toll at the same thne the deathknell of French military honor.—New York Mail and Express. France has written her own name in the book of doom, and unless she uses strong, prompt measures to erase it she must stand self-recorded before the world as a decadent nation.—Brooklyn Eagle. It can readily be believed that Henry was forced to kill himself that his tongue might be silenced. But he told enough to sbhke forever the idolatrous faith of the French in their army leaders.—Buffalo Express. Well may Esterhazy have exclaimed: “This is terrible!” on hearing the Henry’s arrest and confession. It would be surprising if the sensational exit of the wretched Henry should not produce a grand shake-up in the French war office. —Philadelphia Record. We Bpoke of the confession and suicide of Col. Henry, the resignation of Gen. Boisdeffre, and the almost or quite unavoidable reopening of the Dreyfus case, as a shock. Lighter shocks have sufficed to topple down more solidly founded Governments than the third French republic. —Hartford Courant.

Assassination of Elizabeth, The sympathy of the world is extended to Emperor Francis Joseph in this last and overwhelming sorrow.—Des Moines Leader. As a matter of fact, these anarchist fanatics are the worst enemies of those whom, they pretend to serve.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The death of the Empress may have no immediate effect upon the political affairs of the empire, but it will hasten the dreaded end when it will be necessary to find a successor for Francis Joseph.—Kansas City Journal. The assassination of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria at Geneva ia an atrocious crime for which there is no parallel in history and an event which cannot fail to shock and amaze the entire civilized world. —Buffalo Courier. Three attempts to assassinate European monarchs within as many weeks—the last a successful one —indicate forcibly a concerted movement on the part of the anarchists toward some fell purpose of their own.—Minneapolis Tribune. Her sad taking off is but the climax to a career which, all in all, has been anything but a happy one. It is hard to see how the contemptible act of this assassin has advanced one whit the coming of the millennium, when the universal brotherhood of man is to prevail,—Washington Post. Ultimatum to the Sultan. It is time for all powers concerned to make it quite clear to the Porte that indemnity mast be paid, and must be paid promptly.—New York Tribune. Our ultimatum may mean “business.” Certainly we have been most reasonable and patient in attempting to persuade Turkey to settle our just claims.—New York World. The Sultan’s unrivaled collection of xltimatums has been enriched by a note from Mr. McKinley warning him frankly that he cannot repudiate any part of the responsibility for the American losses in the Armenian butcheries.—New York World. President McKinley will be supported by the entire country infcis determination to insist upon payment by the Turkish Government for the property of American missionaries destroyed by the Turks during the Armenian massacre.—Chicago Tribune. The heavy losses and grievous outrages to which American merchants and missionaries were subjected while the Sultan’s myrmidons were ravagihg Armenia must be atoned for so far as atonement can be made in compensatory damages. The American navy is at liberty, and it would find little difficulty in enforcing out* just claims upon the Porte should due redress be stubbornly denied.—Philadelphia Record. < The Trouble In Crete. If England has another Kitchener hie i»lace is in Crete.—Syracuse Standard. It is the old, old question of the “Sick Man of Europe.”—Brooklyn StandardUnion. , The American method of pacifying Cuba is more successful than that of the concert of Europe in quieting Crete, —St, Louis Globe-Democrat. The religious passions of men in whom religion means more of hatred than love ■re thoroughly inflamed, and they are making a conscience of slaughter and a*» eon.-—Syracuse PpaL...,. :