Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Congress meets Monday. Well, as:« r all, what will the Kentucky do if the Sultan calls our bluff and refuses to pay up? The supreme court has decided that the state cannot prohibit the piping of natural gas out of the state. No,constant reader, it is Sullivan the composer and not Sullivan the prize ring discomposer who is dead. China i> trying to curry favor with us by claiming that she discovered us a thousand years or so ago. She forgets what we did to Spain. Here's a Philadelphia man who "shot himself in the dining room,” according to press reports. Did he hit-himself in the mouth or the stomach?

Th supreme court on Tuesday j decided the famous Roby race ; track gambling ease in favor of ! the gamblers, so we may again ex- j peet that iniquitous institution to open in ail its old time glory. If the gold Democrats really hop - for flie reorganization” of the Democratic party, they are hereby advised - to keep Dickinson, i Morton, Whitney, Hewitt and: other traitors in the background, i Even in autocratic Russia, tele-; phone trusts are. sat down upon hard, franchises of that character are sold th -re to those that promise to .-itarge the lowest rates. Pity we can't have some such plan here. Oont Paul is still unreconstructed. His words at Marseilles brand the British lie that he has tied from the Transvaal for his own sake, and sho w that he has gone to Europe an a mission, as has been steadily claimed by the Boer representatives abroad. Well! Well! Well! How times do change. Here is General Otis de laring that he is glad that the Manila censorship has been removed and asserting that he was never in favor of it. May we inquire by whom it was ordered, if this be the ease? Could it have been bvour revered President?

The Republican papers nre now talking about a Presidential candidite for 1904, without mentioning Roosevelt for the place. The Rough Rider cun now meditate on the ingratitude of parties or perhaps he may realize that his own intemperate speeches during the campaign have lost him the nomination four years hence. That New York cashier got away with $7.X),().X1 and that Kentucky one with only $200,000. Still, consult i ii.g that Kentucky's attainments m the past have lain in the direction of the hip pocket rather than the pocket book, it cannot be denied that the state In s made n very fair showing in competition with Xuw York, where they do these tilings in style. Representative Hull, chairman of the Military Committee of the House, won hi his strongly republican distrit t mi the platform that the President should have as big an army as ho wants. A bill to CHtablis.i a minimum force of 100, IXX) and l aviug the President free to increase n at will, would snye the ctuiu r» from all future bother in tin* matti r- except that of paying t.i j bills.

The repor of the Commissioner j of Navigation show- that the ship building indie try of the j I’n ted Stutis :uore prosperous! than il has been i-dioo the civil war. The ship yards are crowded to then* u most capacity and many Older* have been refused because tied cksd«> not furnish facilities for bi,i ling them Yet, he clamors for encouragement for the “infant” American merchant; mnriti?.