Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — PULES of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULES of the PRESS

End of the Pence Conference. The peace conference has turned out to be just what the majority of people thought It would be —a farce. —Spokane Spokesman-Review. The great peace conference, heralded by such a blare of trumpets, whatever it may claim for itself, has been an absolute, flat-footed failure.—New Orleans Times-Demix-rat. It is to be feared that the conference at The Hague may so complicate the rules of warfare that a general will have to be a first-class lawyer as well as a tactician. —Washington Star. The Monroe doctrine has never had as formal and distinct a recognition as the acceptance of this declarationj>y the various powers represented at The Hague gives it. —Indianapolis Journal. When its work shall lie summed up by impartial judges, the high moral significance and beneficent tendency of the Czar’s peace congress will be clearly disclosed to all friends of human progress. -rPhiladelphia Record. Whatever else The Hague congress has accomplished, it certainly has awakened the Asiatic nations to a sense of their potential power and the importance of developing and concentrating it for their own good. —Kansas City Times. Perhaps they are not too sanguine who see in this convention one of the great turning points in the international history of the world —a new bond of peace, and a stronger one than was ever forged before in the councils of the nations. — St. Paul Pioneer Press. 1 he Mreet Car Strike*. The authorities have allowed the reign of anarchy to continue as long as they dare.—Washington Times. It is a commonplace that the worst sufferers from strikes are strikers themselves. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Let us be thankful to the awkwardness of our dynamiters that we have been slow in getting into the air.—Brooklyn Eagle. Labor can win no victories or advantages by violence or the interference with the rights of others.—Leavenworth Times. If the Brooklyn women who unsex themselves in stoning street cars and mobbing passengers would organize and get after Aguinaldo the war would not last two hours.—Buffalo Times. Every stone thrown is directed against th? strikers, and every bomb that is exploded helps to blow away the foundations on which the strikers base their hopes of possible success. —Cleveland Leader. In point of fact, there never was a strike outside of a few Wall street speculators and a few corrupt labor leaders, and workingmen should look the facts squarely in the face. —Philadelphia Times. Pdtyicamy in Utah. It looks as if polygamy in Utah were considerably cheaper than divorce in Dakota. —New York Press. Matters look squally for President Cannon of the Mormon Church. It's all on account of Senator Martha Hughes-Can-non’s baby.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Angus M. Cannon was fined only SIOO for having six wives. Pretty light! We’ll wager he would not part with one of them for ten times that amount.—Baltimore American. “If let alone polygamy will die a natural death.” says the present Bngnam Young. There can be no doubt of that. But will the Mormons let polygamy alone?—Boston Globe. The polygamous wife of Angus Cannon of Salt Lake on whose account he has just paid a fine of SIOO is a State Senator of Utah. The opponents of woman suffrage will make the most of this.— Bloomington Pantagraph. Anter—Eaglishman. William Waldorf Astor has finally renounced his American citizenship. Good riddance!—Buffalo Express. True patriot he, for it is understood He left his country for his country’s good. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Evidently William Waldorf Astor has a good case for damages against the dealer who sold him his pedigree.—Albany Argus. Willy Wally Astor has completed the job of separating himself from this country without jarring the nations.—Detroit Journal. William Waldorf Astor's formal renouncement of allegiance to the United States will not materially change the situation in the Philippines.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Penalties of Greatness. Admiral Dewey probably prefers Spanish bullets to newspaper lies.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Admiral Dewey seems to need a newa censorship at Triest more than Otis doe* at Manila. —Rockford Republican. Admiral Dewey has consented to place himself in the hands of the New York entertaining committee. No braver man than Dewey ever lived.—Atlanta Journal. It is pleasant to read in a cablegram that Admiral Dewey had a day to himself. He will get more of them when he gets up in the Green Mountains of Vermont.—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-une. , George Dewey is not yet 62 year* young. Here’s hoping more than on* happy decade ia in store for our admiral after he passes through the ordeal of enthusiastic welcome from his countrymen. —Boston JournaL . A agio- American Athlete*. The contests were a great snccesa and forged another link in the Anglo-Ameri-can chain.—Nashville American. On the whole, it was a graceful defeat that leaves no sting behind and that opens the way for more contests of a similar nature in . the future.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The English collegians have not much to ba proud of, for it must be remembered that the Harvard and Yale team ia not at aN representative of the collega of *“• delphia Inquirer.