Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Tea mere regiments of soldiers will be sent to the to assist the “man of destiny” in his benevolent assimilation policy. Hie people expect those entrusted with public money not only to make s report to proper officials but to make s public accounting to them—the people. Neglect of this often causes suspicion more or less grave and much to the detriment of the community.—Fowler Leader. For all of last year White county paid out $42 fox and wolf scalp bounty, while Newton county expended S4B for wolf scalps alone. At the last session of the commissioners in Jasper bounty the allowed on wolf scalps aggregated $l6O, and- for the whole year it probably reached between S4OO I and SSOO.

. The Rensselaer editors will hold a reunion at Fair Oaks, Aug. 15. —Journal. Why not include the county officers in the list? Might just as well close up the court house on that day and make the reunion general. Perhaps McCoy will ran a special train and butcher a sheep or two, also.

Poor Baby George! With an annual pull of from S6OO to SI,OOO from the county treasury through the commissioner’s court, two or three times as much, no donbt, in the way of circuit court allowances, ditch notices, etc., to say nothing of sheriff’s sales, padded non-resi-de ut notices, city and school printing, etc., he puts up a howl like a lusty-lunged infant when he sees the nipple slowly slipping from his lip 6 by the exposures of rotteness made by The Democrat.

Life is too short to reproduce all the padded legal? of the self-con-fessed “decent” editor of the “decent paper down the street, and while the field is practically limitless, we must necessarilly stop somewhere. We think the people who have followed this feature of our exposures have become pretty well acquainted with the method of padding non-resident notices, and we shall probably switch off to sheriff sales, ditch notices, etc., ere long that they may see whether any overcharges for publication have been made in those matters. Another padded legal will appear next week.

For the fiscal year ending May 31,1898, White county, with a population one-third greater than Jasper, paid $1,200 for books and stationery and $468.90 for printing and advertising, a total of $1,668.90. For the same period Jasper county paid $2,882.08 for books and stationery and $421.95 for printing and advertising, a total of $3,304.03, or a little more than twice as much as White county. By the way, W 7 hite gets all her books and stationery for $1,200 per year, and has for the past three years. Wilson, Humphries & Co., have had the contract each year and there is no fault found with the quality of the work furnished by them. ,

The commissioners’ annual report—commonly called the auditor’s report—for the fiscal year ending May 31, is due at the June session of the commissioners in in each year, and in all our neighboring counties, we believe, this report was published a few weeks ago. In Jasper county, however, of late years this report has not been made until July or August, and even as late as September, if we remember correctly. When the report is made in this county for the last fiscal year The Democrat will make some interesting comparisons of county expenditures, it having preserved the reports published in neighboring counties.

During the campaign of 1896 about nine-tenths of the commercial travelers were shouting for McKinley, “sound money” and protection. They are now reapingjtheir harvest, according to E. P. Duwe, president of the Commercial Travelers’ National League, who testified before the industrial commission at Washington a few days ago, that the trusts have raised prices from 5 to 100 per cent. He gives the following specimens: Iron pipe, increase 100 per cent.; tin and enameled ware, 30; brass goods, 60; furniture, 30; paper, 10; soap, 10. He said commercial men generally now consider trusts a menace to the community. He considered that recent combines had thrown nearly half of the 350,000 traveling salesmen in America out of employment. 100 fancy plaid satin panwolw, value $2.00 to $3.50. Choice $1.25 to $1.48 each, at the Chicago Bargain Storq, * - v. * * ■ J , * .