Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Will not the republican press of Rensselaer tell their readers something more about that county stationery steal, which they denied so vigorously but a few months ago? The filing of all those bills for stationery and books furnished by outside parties during the time of the contract with Wilson, Humphreys & Co., certainly “reinstates the case.” Speak up, gentlemen, the taxpayers would like to hear what you how have to say on this subject. Congressman Landis of the Ninth district has just returned from a visit to Cuba and he does not regard the future of that Island as at all encouraging to those who expected an era of peace and prosperity under the new conditions. “I very much fear,” says Mr. Landis, “that we shall have trouble with Cuba. The residents who have been fighting against Spanish dominion in a desultory fashion for almost a generation are still opposed to the government. They refuse to work, declining offers of $2 per’day, which, in that country, is princely wages and spend their time parading with their machetes in hand. The revolutionists and brigands constitute a large element of the population. I went into the interior and everywhere the train stopped a crowd of armed guerillas gathered about the station. In the country they are bandits while in the town they call themselves politicians. Their method of warfare are the same as those pursued by the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico under Geronimo, But they lack the cunning and courage of the North American Indian. Much time will be required to make these people fit for self-government.”