Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We have not yet heard what disposition was being made of “the brains of the revolution” which General Otis reported the capture of some weeks ago.

It is of course a base insinuation that Senator Chauncey Depew expects to make good his >50,000 house rent in Washington by writing little pieces for the New York newspapers.

It is stated that the Republican nominations in Philadelphia next June, are to be made by acclamation, which .makes evident the fact that the politicians of that city will not have a chance to do any ballot box stuffing such as they resorted to in the late election.

Hon. W. V. Allen returns to the United States Senate. It is safe to predict that there are several shivers causing annoyance to the gold bugs about this time. Mr. Allen knows the currency question from A to Z and will be able to get in much light on the fallacies of the majority.

Attorney General Griggs is said to cast longing eyes toward a seat on the Supreme Court bench and bis good friend. McKinley is anxious to reward hint. Incidentally it may be mentioned that in his last annual report, Mr. Griggs recommended that the salary of the Supreme Court judges be increased from >IO,OOO to >20,000 per year.

Professor Dean C. Worcester of the United States Phillippine commission sees in the Phil lippines a splendid field for the growth of cotton, climate and soil being declared especially advantageous for the crop. How will the South like this new rival in a field that it has held practically exclusive for years? There has been too much of this benevolent assimilation business; it looks more like belligerent extermination.

Suppose the prosecuting attorney should feel called upon to begin suit against Bro. Marshall for ft'ilure to list all of his property for taxation—he has done this with some others—and would find that something like $2,000 worth of property had been “overlooked” each year for several years. What a neat little Sum that would add to the treasury of Jasper county. The Democrat will mention the fact when this occurs, however.

How to raise the average, onecrop. renting farmer, with no capital but his labor, to better conditions is a problem which is demanding solution. If some genius can find a way for orgqjiizing the farmers so that this can be accomplished he will benefit the whole country, as well as the producers of agricultural products.— Kansas City Times. One mighty good way to solve this problem would be to reduce his rent and taxes. No union needed, just a little less greed on part of the landlord.

The sympathy and support of the newspaper publishers of the country will go with Representative Bellamy’s (of North Carolina) effort to suppress the greed-of the Paper Trust. He has introduced a bill providing for the repeal of all duties on wood pulp and other raw materials used in the manufacture of paper and also providing for the reduction by one-half of the duty on manufactured paper. This bill is a sturdy blow at the Trust, which has taken advantage of the tariff to increase prices and create a practical monopoly, this following out the usual Republican doctrine of monopolistic grabbing. The Democrat editor asks for no better endorsement from the people of Remington and vicinity than his 138 regular and bonafide subscribers of this paper at that place, which is one-fourth the entire circulation of the Remington Press and is twice as large a list as that ever before enjoyed there by a Rensselaer paper even in its palmiest days. The people of Remington and Carpenter township, know that there is one paper in Jasper county whose editor can neither be bought off or scared out by the dastardly gang who have been robbing them for years, and that, the statements whwh appwir in its columns can be depended upon, as Is evidenced by our steadily increasing list at Remington. Our esteemed friend of the Remington Press will possibly learn sometime that it is better to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his readers than the fawning sycophancy of a few rascals who if they got their just deserts might even now be working for the state of Indiana instead of the county of Jasper.