Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Hag has been planted in the capitol of China. “Who will haul down the Hag?” The Hanna-McKinley wars have cost the government of the United States in cold cash over $500,000,000, and the end is not yet. The trusts are once" again worried about the “flag'’ and the “national honor” and “full dinner pails.” They will be desperately patriotic until after the election. I firmly believe that President McKinley will be defeated this year. I think that the interest of the laboring men lies in voting the Democratic ticket. Hon. George S. Boutwell, Secretary Treasury Under Grant. Agriculture, under present conditions, is making millionaires out of men who are not engaged in it —the trust magnates who fatten on the sweat or the farmer’s brow. But no one has yet heard of a farmer who became a millionaire. —Benjamin F. Shively. In May of this year there' were 917 failures, as shown by Dunn’s Mercantile Review, as against 917 the same month in 1896. Remember the dates and remember the figures: 1896 was, according to Republicans, a year of calamity. What will they call 1900? “I helped to create the Republican party, the party at that time of justice and principles and honesty. I now believe it is the party of injustice and despotism, and 1 will help to destroy it. And how? There is but one available means and you know what that is. lAM FOR BRYAN’’—George S. Boutwell, at the Liberty Congress. Indianapolis. In carryingout his imperialistic plans Mr. McKinley is willing to shed any amount of other men’s blood. America is strong enough to crush the Filipinos in time —it is only a question of men, transportation and subsistence, guns and ammunition—but what are we to gain after we have opened this pandora’s box? The trusts may be benefitted, but what of American labor that must inevitably work in competition with the millions of brown men who are now fighting fortheir freedom?

This butchery of a brave semisavage race, whose only crime is its dogged fighting for its freedom, is not the American people's war. The American people repudiate it while they blush for it. It is a war entered into by the administration without either the knowledge or sanction of the American people, and the mortality and sickness, tip* horrors and excesses that are marking its progress are not chargeable to the American people; they are chargeable only to the administration and in especial toPresident McKinley. Suits have been tiled in Wells county against five ex-county officials, whom the investigation of the experts employed to examine the books found to Im* short. The first suit is against G. W. Huffman. ex-slieriff. and his bondamen, for 83,092.01. B. F. Kain, ex treasurer, and bondamen, is sued for 8386.09. Ex-Clerk Robert F. Cummins and bondsmen are sued for $0,530.(17. Ex-Auditor George W. Studebaker, Jr., and bond men are sued for 8313.50. and ex-Clerk Albert Oppenheim and. bondsmen for 8136.49. All are civil suits on bond. Quite a number ol other ex-officials were found to be short but the statute of limitation had expired and nothing could be done.