Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — PULE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULE of the PRESS

Lynching* in Louisiana. The entire country is involved and shares the disgrace of Louisiana.—PhUaRecord. The facts in the case in no wise justified the action of the mob. —Birmingham (Ala.) Age Herakl. Louisiana methods are somewhat barbarous. but there is no question as to their effectiveness.—Detroit News-Trib-une. The lynching shows that negroes are not the only ones against whom the Southern niobe direct their vengeance.— New York Sun. The law-abiding people of Louisiana will road the terrible news from Tallulah with profound regret. —Naw Orleans Times-Democrat. A community which permits all these civilised methods to be trampled upon and allows passion to exercise itself in barbaric revenge should pay the penalty. —Council Bluffs Nonpareil. If lynchings are tolerated at aS, against any chrss of the people or for any class of alleged crime, it is a dead certainty that they will grow more numerous. and that no class of people will be spared.—Leavenworth Times. The lynchings of five Italians in Loniaiana because one of their number had engaged in a quarrel with and shot and wounded a doctor in the parish in which the affair occurred, again brings before the world America's disgrace.—Milwaukee News. A lynching of a negro in Missouri and of live Italians in Louisiana last week are blotches on our record as humanitarians. Besides, in the latter case the Government may be called upon to pay a handsome indemnity.—St. Joseph Herald. In his recent letter on lynching, Mr. Booker T. Washington warned the Southern whites that the habit grew by what it fed upon. Hie warning finds an early and impressive illustration in the lynching of five Italians at Tallulah, La.— Boston Herald. Robert G. lugumoll. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has solved the problem concerning which he had so much doubt.—New York Herald. The great agnostic had many followers. but it is a question whether his assaults on religion did not promote rather than retard its progress.—Omaha Bee. Whatever else he was or was not, he was an American, a product of our soil and racy of it. particularly a product of the middle West, developing its own subvariety of American. —New York Times. The evil of his teaching was its effect on weak mid unintelligent minds. He professed ignorance of the hereafter, and his ignorant hearers went a step further and disbelieved in any hereafter. —St. Paul Dispatch. Ingersoll is no more, but the churches continue to point with taper spires to heaven. What is good in religion will withstand ihe assaults of revilers; what abuses grow up within its fold are more likely to yield before the onslaughts of reformers within than of wreckers without. —Milwaukee Wisconsin. The sudden blow only emphasizes the force of that reflection of Pascal, who said that he could not imagine any one suffering harm by being mistaken in believing Christianity to be true, wherees he could easily see that it would be a fearful error to be mistaken in l>elieving Christianity to be false.—Cleveland Leader.

The Messenger Boys’ Strike. Even the marble-playing messenger boys seem to be tolerably lively when they are on a strike.—Cincinnati Com* mercial-Tribune. The general impression is that if the boys take as long to strike as they do to deliver messages no great inconvenience will ensue.—Nashville American. Who shall win fame by identifying the strike germ? Even the New York newsboys have caught the disease .and the messenger boys of the metropolis threaten to go out to-day. As we all know, when messengers go out it is ■ matter ■ of some moment.—Boston Journal. The messenger boys’ strike ought, if the strikers are true to their immemorial traditions, to be conducted with the utmost leisure and delibegation. even with a touch of “that repooe which stamps the caste of Vere da Vere.” If, however. it shall have the effect of changing the nature of the striker*, so as to make them a trtfle more sudden, not to say precipitate. the wondering public will rejoice with fitting awe.—New York Tribune. Kaglaad** Spoiled Child. England's “spoiled child” needs some earnest admonition from the mother country.—Omaha Bee. If England can only quiet Canada, the enfant terrible of the mother country t who insists on making such a rumpus that her eiders can’t hear themselves talk, the difficulty will probably be smoothed over.—New York Herald. Since the firm stand taken and maintained by the United State* on the Alas-I kan boundary question Gr*at Britain is said to be yielding something of her claims and responding in better spirit to our representation* It is well for Mr. Bull to understand that other people can be firm as well as himself.—lndianapolis Journal. There is an almost universal opinion in this country to the effect that Great Britain has permited the amity now existing between the two countries to be «n- J necessarily threatened by her weakness in the treatment of Canada. The latter country has played her traditional role of a spoiled child.—Washington Star. Honelew Farawvapk*. The automobile wagons thus far built* have been, in many rtnpmla, reprodne-’ tions of wagons and carriage* intended to 3 be pulled by horse*: but with more expe-H rience we feel confident that wide de--: parture* will be made from this old —Boston Herald. The Chicago official* appear to bel thinking seriously of keeping automobile*! out of the parka, because they mar frighten horse*. They fail to recognise that the more automobile* there are tb»| fewer horse* there will be to frighten.-**! St. Paul Pioneer Press. 3