Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Extirpate the kidnapers! is the senti 4 meut of every true man nnd woman in the land.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Congress now has just three month* in which to determine whether it will make a- record for statesmanship or just common surplus spending. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Oklahoma’s delight over her population of almost 400,000 need not be modified by the reflection that the census will never again credit her with an increase of 544 per cent.—Kansas City Star. Gen. Kitchener's preamble to a recent dispatch, "I deeply regret,” was made familiar by Gen. Buffer and Lord Roberts. lie is now having occasion for it* employment.—Brocton (Mass.) Times. When one remembers that 10,000 niur’ders are committed annually in the United States, it does not seem to be a wisd thing to advocate the abolition of capital punishment.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. , , ■' .' '• - T - People who think that sugar is nil made from cane may be surprised to learn that nearly twice as much of the world’s supply of sugar is made from beets as is mnde from sugar cane.—Montgomery Advertiser. It appears that there are twenty-five counties in Texas ivhose average population is less than 500. Yet there are persons who persist in talking as though the country was beginning to get crowded.— Philadelphia Bulletin. The fear of capital punishment would at least prove a most potent deterrent, however, and the actual execution of one or more kidnapers, without regard to their age or condition, would produce most excellent results. —Richmond Dispatch. It should be remembered that the Count dc who is to marry a wealthy Cincinnati girl, is not a bankrupt, but a man of vust means in his own right. This instance is so unusual that it borders on the sensational. —Omaha News. The contention of the railways that iC they are liable for accidents at grade: crossings they ought not to he held responsible for damages caused by elevating their tracks seems to strike the-Sir., preme Cmirr of 111 in■ ■is as good togi e.—' Chicago Tribune. The trend of the evidence in the Boo* hazing case is rather to the effect that the victim was a booby. But that hardly justifies future officers of the. American army in resorting to the petty abuses that drove him to his death.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. It is reported that the pay of the Chinese soldier is 2(A cents a day, and he does not always get it. Which suggests that the Chinese soldier must he a finished artist in putting up an article of fighting that strictly corresponds with his pay. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Thus the influence of lynch law is at work to undermine the courts, to dull the public appreciation of the proper modes of administration. The evil has grown beyond bounds until it is necessary to consider it as a national menace, and not a sectional disgrace.—Washington Star. No excuse can ho made for kidnapers. They plan their deeds deliberately, with the purpose of working on tho affections of parents to extort money. Make death the penalty of the crime, and if criminal* wish to avoid the penalty, let them refrain from kiduapiug.—-Pittsburg Chron-icle-Telegraph. It is certain that so lung as the industrials are as much overcapitalized as they are prudent investors will have little to do with them. If the men in charge of these concerns care to put them on an investment basis, they will voluntarily squeeze out most of the water they eonj tain.—Chicago Tribune. - i’ari* is suffering a plague of thieves,* the remnant of the Exposition crowds. Chicago had a similar experience nfter the Columbian World’s Fair. The question naturally arises whether international expositions have anything inherent in their nature promotive of thieves or robbery.—Pittsburg Dispatch, The Boer has set the standard for the soldier of the future. He must bo a man of good physique, a doifr fighter, a sharpshooter, and a man who is able to look out for himself, for he will be on his belly half the time squinting through the sights of his rifle, with no officer to tell him what to do.—New York Evening un. It is about time that public opinion, if not legislation, should deal with the pardoning imwer as a public responsibility and not as a private privilege.;. Its abuse is a serious obstacle to the proper administration of justice and the safeguarding of life, and property, yet there is no way of calling its misuse to uccouut.—• Baltimore American. The whole force of the State of Nebraska and of every municipality in it should be directed to the pursuit of these brigands, nnd every State nnd city in the Unlou should join in the hue mid cry. That a system of Italian brigandage should be successfully operated here iu one of our large cities, that our children should not.tie safe from them on the public streets in sight of their homes is too monstrous to submit to.—Baltimore Sun. The tune has come, howevert when it should he recognized that a boy goes to school or to college to study, not primarily to fight, and while he should be allowed to develop Ids muscle if he is inclined that way, and encouraged, to become strong and athletic, he should not be beaten, abused nnd tortured if lie happens to prefer the work of the brain to that of the prize fighter.—Washington Times. *niere is not u great deni of difference between the Wnlilersce policy in China and the Chumberluiu policy iu South Africa.—Washington Post. I.eroy 11. Piper, former cashier of the First Notional Bank of St. M ur . v ' l '. Ohio, Who disappeared iu Yellowstone Park, has been given up ns dead; There is talk in Kansas of appointing a rabbit commissioner for the State. th* I reason being that 40.0(A) pounds of jack rabbit meat goes to waste annually la 1 Iks State.