Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

When the trusts read the reports of Mr. McKinley’s Cannon speech of acceptance they can exclaim with literal truthfulness, “Never touched us!” The Hannaites are still engaged in the hopeless task of trying to prove that Thomas Jefferson was an imperialist. They might as well try to humbug people into the belief that McKinley has a backbone built according to the same plan and specifications as was Andrew Jackson’s. Can any taxpayer in Jasper county honestly say that he does not think an investigation of the county offices is needed in this county after reading the many exposures of corruption made by The Democrat during the past two years? And, bear in mind, not a solitary statement made by The Democrat ever has been or can be successfully disputed. They told you The Democrat lied on the stationery matter, the new court house matter, the court house yard matter, the Keener township gravel road fraud, and many others, but since lawsuits have been brought in most of these cases confirming our statements, these fellows are awfully quiet—“nary a cheep” do they utter. Every other statement of official rottenness will be clisclosed by an honest investigation, and, if the people elect the democratic ticket this fall, such an investigation will be made.

The republicans are beginning to realize that the opposition of our German voters to imperialism is not a mere passing whim, but is based upon principle, which will cause many thousand votes cast for McKinley in 1896 to be cast for Bryan and Stevenson this year. Dr. L. W. Habercom, who was head of the German Literary Bureau of the Republican National Committee, during the last campaign and who is now supporting “the democratic ticket, has made a statement of his reasons for abandoning the republican party, from which this is quoted: “Expansion of the Union on the American continent is proper. Expansion not of the Union, but by the acquisition of possessions which are to be governed as dependencies, subject only to the will and caprice of our Executive and Congress, unrestricted by the Constitution, and without the consen! and against the wishes of the people to be governed, who thereby become subjects, is in my opinion, improper, unjust, and unrepublican; the government of the U. S. is thereby transformed into an imperial government for our possessions. A government with imperial power over possessions cannot long remain republican at home. As the government could not have lived half slave and half free, so it cannot live half imperialist and hnlf republican. The foreign policy adopted by the republican party embroils us in all the quarrels of the world, and entangles us in foreign alliances. It lias already entangled us in one—an unwritten alliance with Great Britain. Since British diplomacy succeeded in persuading our administration and our Peace Commissioners to force Spnin to cede to us the quickly withdrawing shadow of its already expelled sovereignty over the Philippines, we have been compelled to go hand in hand with England. The republican partynow stands for the imperialistic expansion, and is already busy cultivating the spirit of militarism. The democratic party has earnestly, clearly and forcibly pronounced against imperialism and its resultant evils, for the preservation of the republic and the constitution. The issue is thus made up, and I consider it my plain duty to help maintain the republic by such efforts as I can make, humble though they are.” The only way to make a real Rood Mongolian into kill him. Thus when the great powers go Into the partition business over in China and the missionaries go across the briny deep to christianize the Heathen-Chinese, the tlrst essentials are artillery and rough-on-rats. Every poisoned rat should kill a dozen Chinamen.—Fredericksburg, 0., Observer. The above is a clipping from the Rensselaer Republican. This monstrous perversion of the religious teachings of Jesus Christ is quoted with approval by this great and good man who presides over tho Official Apologist. Ts it to be wondered at that nil “heathens” and a great many who are slightly civilized, tight shy of inoculation of this “twentieth century Christian civilization.”

FARM LOANS. Farm Loans at 5 per cent, interest jcomtnission 1 to-2 per cent, according to amount of loan and security. No need to pay 3 to 5 percent, commission W. B. Austin, Rensselaor, Ind.