Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

So many people have been tak- j ing advantage of the bankruptcy ) law, that there was some danger j that Santa Claus would be swept along with the tide. So close is the connection be- i tween this country and England, that, incredible as it may sound, a failure on Tugela river, is the signal for a failure on Wall street. The English, from the first, have been imbued with a desire to avenge the defeat of Majuba Hill, but their efforts to do this only seem to increase the number of Majubas. . Every time you put a revenue stamp on a telegram or a bank check, you are helping to pay the salary of the Sultan of Sulu, and to keep up the wardrobe of his harem such as it is. The spectacle of the government loaning a million dollars a day to a New York City bank is not an inspiring one, but it goes to show how the money power has the McKinley Administration by the throat. The McKinley administration is so blind that it can see no inconsistency in inviting “foreign entanglements” in China, and at the same time holding aloof from any attempt to mediate in the South African struggle. One of the London papers, in reviewing McKinley’s message on the subject of currency proposals, says that “like all of Mr. McKinley’s proceedings, they are tentative, platitudinous and dull.” We have not seen any better comment than this on this side of the water. Major General Lawton, who was recently in the Philipines. was a hero of two great wars for liberty, and, in speaking once of war in the Philippines referred to it as “This damnable war.” showing just what he thought of the policy *of the Republican Administration. Just a year ago, McKinley issued a proclamation calling upon the Filipinos to lay down their arms and become practically the | slaves of the United States, but he held out no hope of self-govern-ment If he had. the war that j- followed .would not have been beK Reports from the Philippines ' frequently state that twer *y per : cent, of Colonel So-and-so's comg mand has been lost. NotwithI standing the fact that a lot of brave American boys will never come home, we must keep on “ex- | panding” to boom the McKinley Administration. fc It is estimated that should the f currency bill, passed by the House, - become a law, the value of the government bonds of the country wonkl be increased 965,000,000, so rz'SK-i-fc* mabeme to play into the hrnnfe of *° b “