Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Boers are still piling up victories over the haughty Britons. » What would happen if 40,000, 000 Boers should declare war against a quarter of a million Englishmen? One of the Washington papers has denounced Senator Hoar as the vermiform appendix of the administration. This is pretty low down in the human anatomy. Ex-Warden J ames Murdock of Lafayette, Mayor Riley of Hammond, and Hon. Morgan H. Weir of Laporte, are mentiondd as aspirants for the democratic nomination for congress in this district.

The $15,000,000 we may have to pay to Europeans for our premature bombardment of Iloilo, makes the price of the islands mount up. As Speaker Reed would put it, the Filipinos will now have cost $3.50 a head.

The actions of the Republican governor of Kentucky in summoning armed < men to Frankfort, are rapidly convincing the country that Mr. Goebel was not so very far out when he denounced Republican corruption and intimidation at the election.

The paper trust is the most inexcusable in the whole country, for it lays a tax on intelligence. Almost any means are justifiable in fighting it, and the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court against its stockholders, will cause widespread rejoicing.

The state of Massachusetts has been fighting the gypsy moth for years without exterminating it. Now there are people who assert that the danger has been overrated and that bugs will continue to be found as long as there is pay for finding them.

The Shelby county grand jury has indicted two commissioners, and they will be placed on trial Feburary 2. It is evident that at last a public sentiment has been created in Shelby county strong enough to cope with the political machine.—lndianapolis Press.

By its action on the Roberts case, the Republican House of Representatives has gone a long way towards establishing a reputation for recklessness and deliberate disregard of the rights of others. And this despite the fact that it was just as easy to exclftHe Mr. Roberts by constitutional means.

There was no more wholesome legislation enacted by the last session of the General Assembly than is the county and township reform law. It has been the means of saving much money to the people, and in Henry county the people are going to give it a vote of indorsement at the forthcoming election. Middletown News.

The Noblesville Ledger calls attention to the increased importance of township officers, under the new law; the enlarged duties and responsibilities of superintendents of free gravel roads, of road supervisors. The assessor’s office also affects the interests of all taxpayers and demands good judgment as well as honesty. The Ledger advises the holding separate primaries for the nomination of township candidates, so that interest in their selection may not be secondary to the county ticket. The Secretary of the Treasury has the impu ience to request Congress to appropriate over 1100,000 to pay the rent of the New York custom house. Mr. Gage is undoubtedly a brave man, but it cannot be said that he is a wise one. Either he should have told the truth about the rent without evasion, when he sent his famous explanation to Congress, or else he should have let the rent go. As matters stand, he has convicted himself of a pitiful subterfuge. If any man must tell a falsehood, he should at least stick to it.