Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. [ARTICLE]

Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store.

w want to know whether or no Mr. II uum is to. umpire the empire. The election Ims been,over for a month and Don M. Dickinson and other would-be organizers of the Democratic party have not ye,t gotten beyond the “whereas” in their efforts. Eagan’s six years vacation has been brought to a close and he has been granted another one for life. Can’t something be done for Carter. Rathbone and Neely? It seems unfair to neglect them. Never before in the history of the coifntry, not even during our desperate struggles in 1770-84, 1812-14, and 1861-65 has the President been given power to fix the size of the United States army almost at will. The respective reports of the expenditures of Commissioner Peck and Director Rathbone have been laid before Congress. The chief difference between them is that Peck does not charge for buss fare and Rathbone does. In other particulars the accounts bear a strong family resemblance. General Mercier is preparing to invade England, according to his own account. Heretofore, General Mercier has been familiar to people this side of the water chiefly through his connection with the Dreyfus case. If he can do something more than persecute Jews, the world has not yet learned the fact. It is pretty hard to learn, via Great Britain, that the British Government justifies Kitchener’s j Weylerization of South Africa by two clauses in the laws of war as In id down by the United Slates War Department after the Philippine troubles began. The United States is getting into awfully bad company these'day’s.

It never occurs to the ndminis- : Ration that perhaps it could man-i agefto do without the beer tax, too.l if it would cut off expenditures a j trifle. Economy in ■ government, j is one thing of which the Republicans have not even a rudimentary*] conception. If they had. they would lose some of their strongest 1 supporters. What, n contrast brave little 1 Holland pie tits to Germany and the United Stall's! Emperor Willis m, who sent so warm a telegram of congratulation to Kruger when he crushed the Jamieson raid and I Uncle Sam, who protested so energetical fv against the Weylerization of Cuba. seem now to have 1 drawn in their horns. The House has passed the army bill hut has stricken out the stall’: features whicli constituted practi- j cally its only good feature. The influence of the Bureau chiefs was too strong to be overcome. However, the S 'tiate now has n chance at the bill and will certainly put the reform sections hack. W hat the ultiinnti result will be, remains to be seen. . Like begets like. We notice in Bro. Mar-halls up-to-date daily that W 11 ( oover is still county clerk, (’ E Mill s prosecuting at-: torney. N. .1 Reed sheriff, T. J. McCoy city mayor, E. Mills city attori cy, Thomas McGowan city marshall and all the old township trustees have been retained in office. The Apologist man hns become too intimate with the cow-puncher The President and Sec. Gage «re now raising the long yell because Congress wants to reduce taxation too much. It’s all a question of beer, the reduction of the revenue from this source [being the traditional v 10.000.000 [atraw that breaks the hank. But Ithen, what can be done? The [brewers paid their campaign subboriptions like little m n and how ■they want their reward. Will Ithey get it? Well, rather.

The administration is beginning to get more “returns” from its Philippine investment. A ship load of 1,500 dead sailors and soldiers arrived at San Francisco this week. American merchantmen once held the seas because ships could be built cheaper here than elsewhere. Then came a period when this was not so and we lost our shipping. But now again American can build ships—steel ones, this time ~ cheaper tlinn they can be built, anywhere else. What, need, then, of subsidies, to encourage them? The Winamac Republican and i Pulaski County Democrat have i been having a rather warm newspaper fight Ur the past year. 'This fall the Republican" printed I the local ballots used in Pulaski i county and filed a bill and was paid tin' full amount of the same. But the editor of the Pulaski j County Democrat was not a low*, | mean and whelp I enough to go before the commisisoinersand try to beat his competitor out of the pay therefor. The total number of failures in the United States, as reported by R. G„ Dunn & Co. for the 12 months from December 1, 1899, to November 30,1900, compared with the same 12 months previous, shows an increase for 1900 over 1899, ns follows: Failures for 1899, 9,752 with liabilities amounting to $101,048,466. For 1900, 10,460 failures, with liabilities amounting to $194,066,199, Evidently prosperity has given quite a number of business men a backhanded swipe during the past year. The disclosure in the Senate of the fact that even the Davis amendment will not permit the United States to fortify the Nicnrauguan Canal and that its only effect will be to allow the United States to send its fleets to hover off the mouths of that waterway and wait for the enemy’s vessels, is simply astounding. The treaty ns negotiated by Secretary Hay, would, it now appears, pledge the l word of the United States to keep entirely away from the canal and allow an enemy a free course to and through it.

. With great bluster and ado the Apologist man publishes how he proposes to show in court when his case is called what rascals The Democrat man and Journal* man are for publishing those health notices and getting paid for them instead of refusing to priift them and letting the angel of the Apologist and the cow-puncher of the Barnacle have the work. We do not care to publish all w T e expect to show the court and the public when these cases come to trial, but we will say that we purpose to show the Apologist man up as the greatest prevaricator since the days of Aniianias and his expert printer (the cow-puncher) as little better.