Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Now that the month of March is ended perhaps Bro. Marshall will tell the tax-payers of the county who read the official organ something about the stationery deal. The U. S. transport Crook arrived in New York harbor Wednesday with the remains of 686 soldier dead. This is but a part of the blood spilled in maintaining the new imperialistic policy. The government has refused to pay the state for the clothing furnished Indiana troops during the Spanish war. The legislature made an appropriation of some $40,000 for this purpose and now must hold the sack for same.

It seems there is a nice little fight on between the Jasper Library and the county commissioners. The Library has been holding its sessions in the library room at the court house, and it seems has shown a disposition to take possession thereof, but the commissioners, it is understood, have ordered the court house closed at 6 o’clock p. m., sharp, and —what is the Library going to do about it? It looks very much as though the commissioners would win out.

It is a wonder that the present Board of Commissioners or their predecessors have not caught on to the skin game of the city of the great I am town of Jasper county. For ages every tramp that has invaded the place asking for something to eat was sent to the jail and fed at the expense of the taxpayers throughout the county, not the municipality, as they should be. There are many schemers at the hub and by this mode of procedure have kept adding lucre to their treasury at your expense. Rensselear is quite a place, there is a rotten ring there and the sooner the outside townships awake from their Rip Van Winkleness. and shackle the octapus the better. This self constituted ring are responsible for the cumbersome court house debt you are tooting. —Wheatfield Telephone. Tut, tut, man, this is rank heresy, and besides, its dangerous. Don’t you know they indict newspaper men in Jasper county who have the audacity to whisper anything about “de gang?” Better go a little slow, Bro. Robertson, “de gang” proposes to silence all opposition to its raids on the county treasury—if it can. The edict has gone forth that unless this is done its days are numbered in Jasper county.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Governor Pingree of Michigan “thinks it strange that the United States can do nothing to suppress the trusts,” and says “the people will have to take the matter into their own hands.” That is all very well, but how? The trusts today are all powerful with the legislatures, with the courts, with congress and with the national and many of the state administrations. Michigan herself has had an anti-trust law since 1889, but no proceeding has ever been instituted under it. Indana has had a so-called anti-trust law since 1897, but our republican governor and our republican attor-ney-general have never made a pretense of an effort to enforce it. In fact, they publicly declared, some time ago, that the law was not worth the paper it was written on, and yet the republican legislature which recently adjourned refused to strengthen this law or to pass a better one in its place. If the people are going to “take this matter into their own hands” they will have to begin with the primaries and place every candidate for a legislative, judicial or executive office, from the lowest to the highest, on platforms pledging them to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy to cure this monstrous evil. There has been plenty of talk against trusts. The time is coming for action. Subscribe for The Democrat.

Horse-Shoeing is Still Fluctuating! But Jack Warner still sticks to the same old price, 4 New Shoes Fob 50 Cents. Put on in firstclass style and warranted in every respect, at his new two-story shop on Front street, one block south of the Nowels House. Jace Warner.