Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A special grand jury is investigating the county treasury looting in Shelby county.

If the Government is getting so much money as to cripple financial transactions, why not reduce taxation?

The county commissioners ofPerry county have apjxfinted experts to make an investigation of the county records.

The fact that new trusts are being formed with such speed, proves either that existing law is powerless or that enforcement of it is weak.

Why are Republican Senators so anxious to keep secret the facts regarding the beginning of the Filipino outbreak? Have they guilty consciences?

Come to think of it, why was Mr. Cannon, a Republican polygamist, permitted to sit in Congress for years, while Roberts, a Democratic polyiramist, is to be driven out?

Whatever moral justification Secretary Gage may urge for his action, he cannot deny that he has deliberately violated the laws. That is nothing, nowadays, however.

Perhaps it is true that the trust question is not a. partisan one. But why do all the trusts contribute to the Republican campaign fund and none to the Democratic?

There is no use asking McKinley to mediate in South Africa and perhaps stop the bloodshed there. He might make his friend Bull angry, and that would never do, you know.

The Republican party has come to believe with Ex-Senator Ingalls, that the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are “glittering generalities” and “irridesceut dreams ”

The outgoing treasurer of Washington county is about SIO,(XX) short m his accounts. He had made his settlement with the commissioners, and the shortage was only discovered by accident.

According to President McKinley, the United States is at peace with all the nations of the earth. Yet the Secretary of the Treasury wants §ISO,(XX),(XX) for the army, more than Great Britain spends in ordinary times.

The Tagalog guerrillas are now reported to have evaded the troops who were chasing them and to have mustered in large within ten miles of Manilla. Otis accordingly reports that the war is nearly over.

Two more Indianapolis building and loan associations went under this week. Then l was so much prosperity that the borrowers you Id not keep up payments and the associations were loaded down with depreciated real-estate. Our genial, little friend of the Remington Press copied an “original editorial” from the Barnacle last week, which he would apply to The Democrat editor. Perhaps his readers would be more interested in an editorial from this gifted gentleman on the subject of ‘The Saeredness of au Oath; or How I Listed for Taxation a $2,000 Newspaper Plant at $250.”

The county commissioners of Howard county have advertised three times for bids for furnishing the county with books and stationery. The commissioners claim that the bids filed have been excessively high, and show evidence ofaprin ters* combine. The lowest bid filed was $2,090.06, which is bat $176.11 more than the bids filed and accepted in Jasper county. Jasper has a population of 15,492; Howard, 86,000.