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

Secretary Gage is heeding Scripture with a diligence. He lays up his treasure in New York.

Slavery and polygamy are somehow transmuted into “benevolent assimilation” when they get across the Pacific and into Sulu.

All salaries in the Transvaal, including President Kruger’s, were cut down almost to nothing when war began. Thus the Boer proves his corruption and lack of civilization. i

Perhaps the “abiding faith” of the Remington Press “editor” would have been strengthened still more by the application of a greater amount of “pap.” There’s nothing like political pap to strengthen the faith of some editors.

Just now the American people are again making fools of themselves in raising a hundred thousand dollars or more for the widow of Gen. Lawton, when thousands upon thousands of equally deserving widows throughout this broad land are in actual penury. As the widow of a general, Mrs. Lawton will receive a government pension sufficient to keep herself and family in ease if not in affluence. Why, then, should an immense amount of money be raised all over thecountry for the “Lawton Fund,” when the Lawton’s don’t need it and there are thousands of other widows and orphans right at home who do? This is a mighty queer world.

As a little example of the wasteful extravagance that has been ! practised in Jasper county in the purchasing of books and stationery. we mention the following: The auditor’s vault contains two ' "County Council Records,” each ; "No. 1.” An individual could buy these records for about §6 each, but no doubt they cost the taxpayers S2O or §3O each. One of these books bears the imprint "W. B. Burford,” the other “BurtTerry Co,” thereby showing that it was thought necessary to “patronize” both firms. Each book contains about GOO pages. But one record has yet been used, and all proceedings of record of the county council thus far —(> months occupy only ten pages of this record. Suppose the average is [twenty pages per year? One record I would last 30 years! Still there 'are two of them on hand and each j is “Record No. 1.”

Some of our republican exchanges are donating considerable space to chronicling the statement that “Hon.” Dawson Smith of Fowler, “has left the democratic party.” If our memory serves us correctly, we remember Dawson Smith as a party who was at Remington at a democratic meeting during the last presidential campaign, and who became considerably enthused by the blaring trumpets and blazing bon-fires. The next morning a man who was said to be Dawson Smith of Fowler, was looking about for his overcoat, which in the enthusiasm of the previous night had become separated from him. This was the first we ever remember of hearing of the “Hon.” Dawson Smith. On the whole we think the democratic party will survive the shock of Dawson’s retirement from its ranks and the democrats of Benton county are to be congratulated.