Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

New Dreyfus Crisis. Revision is progressing splendidly; and* if only it can be saved from its it will certainly win.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. So, Dreyfus is to be tried again, thereby “keeping the story alive,” as the newspapers say, for another year, at least.— Janesville Gazette. Dreyfus is to be retried. But ustica demands the trial and conviction of the forgers and perjurers who tried him th* first time. —Atlanta Constitution. There is little or no question that Dreyfus will be brought home for a new triaL It will have to be fairly and openly conducted, and then a great load of shamed fear and conscious evil-doing will be lifted off the French nation.— Cleveland Leader. The interest in the court’s judgment is great. That in the general staff offset to it is greater. But greater than all is that in the finally underlying motive for this vast villainy. Mere anti-Semitism, the motive assigned by Dreyfus himself, seems hardly definite enough to warrant such an elaborate scheme of individual persecution.—New York Press. Dreyfus may be innocent, but if he it will not be the first time that a manp has had the misfortune to be punished) for something he was not guilty of, and it must be admitted that most of the persons who have interested themselves in the work of procuring justice for Dreyfus have been far more deeply concerned with the political aspects of the case than with the moral aspects.— Detroit Tribune. J’ The army is to be given a chance to redeem itself. It,,must try Dreyfus again. The officers dare not resort to the tactic* which have been so thoroughly exposed,, and there is reason to believe that there will be no case at all. In the eyes of an American the army will still be a long way from having proved its worthiness, but it is likely that the French people will accept this action of undoing a wrong as a sacrifice which atones for all the wrong-doing of the past.—Denver Republican.

The Alaskan Boundary. In the matter of the Alaskan boundary dispute, England seems to be one of Canada's colonies.—lndianapolis News. That Alaskan boundary question may be settled by the time all the gold is taken out of the country.—Cleveland Leader; Canada, it seems, clings tightly to hew old role of mischief maker between the United States and England.—Boston) Journal. The Dominion’s idea of arbitration is akin to the form of compromise that obtained in the home of the meek-naturedi husband, who explained that when he wanted a green carpet put down in the parlor and his wife wanted a red carpet,' they always compromised on red.—Detroit Free Press. There is but one course for the United! • States to pursue, and that is to stand'; firmly on its rights. We once compromised away several degrees of Pacific seal coast, and we have no more to squander.’ ! It is within the power of this country to soon bring Canada to terms, and that without war.—Denver News. The difficulty unquestionably exists in the greed of the Canadian Government,; which is inordinate and unreasonable.' and the best that we may hope is that thed British foreign office at London and Am-, bassador Choate may take the out of the hands of the commission and settle it reasonably.—Boston Post. J Fickle France. A French crisis would seem to be fl more serious thing if it were not so friK quent.—Evening Wisconsin. The ease with which a French cabiMfl can be upset is the admiration and d<ri| spair of the American people.—PhiKdeO phia Ledger. The French ministry whisks in and outl with all the pensive grace an'd celerity «■ a cow’s tail in fly time, and with littMg more significance as a rule.—Buffalo Cowl rier. JI Somebody ought to take a hatchet anfl a gourd full of nails and make a cabiflfl for the French republic that will houH the cigars and decanters.—Memphis Coflfl mercial-Appeal. a In France, now it is different. Then! alleged police outrage's cause a cabiflß to resign. Here they merely result Jfl Mazet committees and a whole lot oJ amusement to the public.—Albany Argral President Loubet may belong to tlufl bourgeois, but it is quite evident that Sfl has a two-liue pica cinch. Even bourgeois Loubet looms up like a letter among the agate aristocracyWH Frame.—Omaha World-Herald. 11| The rumor that the French GovmH ment will in paying Dreyfus his arreaH of salary deduct 1,597 francs for “lodflH expenses at one franc per day,” his lodM| ing being a cell on Devil's Island, credible. A people that would this is lost beyond American. -..gWS JI Kissing Bug’s Exploit*,H The kissing bug is much talked aWMI these days, but happily it is not end of everybody's tongue.—St. Patd4Hls patch. J| It seems to be a well-developed »H| that the girls who are used bees exhibit not the least fear OtJS| kissing bug.—New York Press. gm There is generally believed to be agH intimate connection between ' be lestes picipos ami the Bacillus pretffl|||| torus.- Sioux City Journal. M There is one redeeming feature ImH the kissing bug. He never makers talk about her ruby lips and ail tM| of thing.—Central Illinois g||j The story that the kissing buBS attacks persons when they out doors is supposed to have betjiM ■: ed as a warning to Rapids Republican. ,' The literature of the kising coming quite voluminous. One latest additions to it is that its victims are those who have been 4 onions or garlic, and that it will *■ if ever, •‘kiss” one who U*egT&j there is any moral in this, it Would! .. to be, avoid onions and garlic *2 tobacco as long as the I tad.—Savannah News. ■ .J