Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Goldwin Smith thinks that marriage is a protection against suicide. Ho says: "Statistics show that suicide is largely on the increase. The inference which some would draw is that progress has failed to produce happiness. It is true that mankind has grown more restless, and that with multiplied desires and heightened aspirations there have come new sources of discontent. But the general fact probably is that sensibility has increased with civilization. It seems to be proved statistically that marriage is a safeguard against suicide, while divorce is specially productive of it. Marriage no doubt is too often the disillusion of love. Yet the immense majority of marriages are happier than a lonely lite.”

Of the relief work in Galveston, Stephen E. Barton, second vice-president of the Red Cross Society, said: "So far there has been donated for the flood sufferers about $1,600,000 cash. Of this amount $750,060 has been donated to Galveston. It will require every cent of this amount tb clean up debris and pny the expenses of distributing the materials donated, and nothing will be left for reconstruction of tlie 4,000 immes destroyed. The broken lumber that can be extracted from the debris is not worth the cost of the labor necessary to recover it. However, it is utterly'impossible to think of burning any part of it without removing it to some distance from the remaining buildings.”

Said Conrad G. Hubbard to a Washington Post reporter: "American tourists rave over the glorious scenery of the Rhine, when it is immeasurably inferior to the scenic charms of tlie Hudson or the St. Lawrence. There is not in any corner of Europe, nor elsewhere on the globe, anything comparable to the Thousand Islands for natural beauty.”

Emperor William says tliat tlie Boxer chiefs should suffer for the death of the Christians, nml lie also says: "1 also long for peace which atones for the guilt, which makes good wrongs dune, and which offers to all foreigners in China security for life and property, and above ail, for the free service of their religion.”

Kato Takaki. Japanese minister in London, says of tlie empress dowager: - "She is the heart and soul of China. So long as she lives, so long as she remains in China, whether the supreme power is taken from her or not, she will alwaju be the greatest force, the one above all others to be reckoned with. The difficulty will be to get any one who can speak for her. I fear that the influence of Li-Hung-Cbnng is now of extremely little weight.”

Samuel Gompers defines the position of organized labor by saying: “All that labor demands for itoeif it is willing to grant in equal measure to others. It doos not oppose combination among employers. It does not depend upon legislation. It asks no special privileges, no favors from tlie State. It wants to be let alone mid to be allowed to exercise its rights and use it* great economic power.”

About the influence of the United States in world politic* Gen. Joseph Wheeler says: "We are not a military people, nnu yet we are the most martial, and. when necessary, the most warlike of all people on earth. Wo seek to avoid entanglements with other nations, but to-day every nation on the fare of the globe, ix'fore it makes n diplomatic move, telegraphs to.its minister in Washington And learns the views, wishes and demands o's the American people.” Chicago will arrest street beggar*.