Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

-* Boer and Briton. , England is always heroic when she starts out to lick ah' Infant. —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The end will be the complete establishment of English domination over South Africa. That must come iu time.—Philadelphia Times. The Boers have the right to assume that the British Government has decided upon the extinction of their independence. —Rochester Post-Express. One is naturally inclined to the belief that the use of a little finer diplomacy on the part of the Boers could have averted the war which must eventually result in their defeat.—Albany Journal. It Is a fight not against but for the people of the Transvaal, if it be fair to call three out of four the people. And whatever the more immediate fortunes of j the war may be, in the end medievalism will make way for the modern.—Brooklyn 1 Eagle. Is it not quite probable that “Lorelei” of the diamond fields at berloy and the gold mines at burg may lure this great nation toner utter humiliation and destruction? Rome had her day. Britain will have hers.— Waukegan Sun. There i$ not the slightest merit in Great Britain's attitude toward -the South African republic. It is simply>j* ease of Great Britain coveting gold arid being determined to obtain possession of gold fields regardless of the rights of Kruger's people.—Omaha World-Heraid. If England wins, and wins quickly—and the majority of unbiased persons throughout the world probably believe she will —the effects of the conflict, beyond a temporary flurry on the speculative exchanges at the outset, and the temporary suspension in the outflow pf gold frem the Transvaal, are not likely to be serious.—St. Lonis Globe-Democrat.