Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

According to Otis’ last cable Aguinaldo was still running. Judge Baker of the Federal court at Indianapolis, holds the Barret improvement law invalid. And now a New York fireworks company has assigned. Just on the eve of the great republican presidential fireworks campaign, too! Mark Hanna has served notice on those republicans who would drop Mr. Hanna from a prominent place on the national committee, that they “can’t lose him.” Mark will continue to be in evidence.

That British alliance seems to have been with President McKinley and not with the I nited States. By the way, a few years ago the republicans surreptiously posted a British flag over the democratic speaking announcements in Rensselaer.

The Journal’s statement of Judge Thompson’s decision in that tax matter is in keeping with its previous false statements in the matter. Perhaps, though, the Journal man is not altogether responsible for his inability to tell the truth. “What is bred in the bone,” etc., etc.

James D. Richardson, selected to lead the minority in the House of Representatives, is a member of long experience and high character. He possesses the ability and the temperament to make him an excellent leader, and may be expected to marshal his forces with skill and wisdom on all questions.

' War times are always prosperous for the people who stay at home. There is a side of logic, which finds nothing but cause for joy in

this condition. If there is increased activity in factories, if there is more running up and down the face of the earth, if there is a demand for the things which in times of peace were liable to overproduction, the short-sighted patriot, partisan of the administration flings his hat in the air and yells “Good times!” War prosperity is a fever, and on its subsidence there is a lowered vitality, a less healthful condition. When war is over the syndicates have unloaded. They have no burden of unsalable stock on hand. They have amassed wealth selling at a high price.

After every war comes a period of low morals, of vicious tendencies and of profligacy which possesses all the vices of the camp without the apology of avowed activity. I'And in the wake of that comes a | season of commercial and indus- ?■' trial depression that almost I threatens the foundation of soil ciety.—Lafayette Journal.

Only last October this Fred L'. I Griffin of the Remington Press, I this “honest man,” who had the I eternal gall to turn in to the assessor S2,(XX) worth of property ;1 for taxation at only $250. within ! two weeks from the time of its

| purchase, and then solemnly swore: “I have to the best of my knowledge and judgement, valued said property at its true cash value, by which i mean the usual selling | price, being the price which could Ibe obtained for said property at | private sale, and not at forced << »r auction sale,” in a voluntary state-' patent to the county auditor, said |of The Democrat editor: “I further wish to state that in all my | business relations with Mr. Babs cock I have found him straightforward and honorable in everyway, and I believe him to be strictly honest;” now he in effect , says, The Democrat editor is a f rogue and a criminal. Then, this ; same Fred L. Griffin in his weak, "wishy-washy way. was criticising the management of county affairs, now he is upholding it. Then. | this same Fred L. Griffin, was not relative oy nmrri hc6 —-too editor bought 7 about 11l * this change? K t w