Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The ship subsidy steal has been laid aside in the Senate until the army bill is finished. Mexico is suffering from a dearth of silver. The world’s yearly production of the white metal has sunk in value far below that of gold, principally owing to its demonetization. The Republicans are determined to present reasons to prove that all the war taxes cannot be repealed, even if they have to largely increase the expenses of the government to do it.

It turns <>a,t that the mutiny on a British warship near China was due to the fact that the men thought they hadn’t got their share of loot Titus the-torch of civilization lights up the dark places of the earth -and burns them up, too. . The Republicans are threatening to “reconstitute” the Supreme Court if it does not decide “right” in the colonial cases. This is a pretty state of things for a party that so condemned Mr. Bryan’s remarks on the same lines a few years ago.

It jarred the Republicans to learn that if they cut down Southern representation on account of the negroes, they would have to cut down northern representation on account of women, children, lunatics and foreigners. Most of them hadn’t thought of that.

The statements of Senator Sewell of New Jersey, a staunch republican, that the war in the Philippines was as bad as ever, that there were as many. Americans killed and wounded there each month as there are in many battles, and that thousands of men would probably be needed for years to come, ought to abash those who contended that the rebellion would fail as soon as Bryan was defeated.-

The sixty-second general assembly of Indiana convened Thursday: Samuel Artman of Lebanon, was chosen speaker of the house. In his message Governor Mount recommends that sheriffs be liable for lynchings; that voteselltrs as- well as vote-buyers should be punished; wants judicial circuits reorganized; asks for nonpartisan control of the state prison; urges anti-trust legislation; would punish kid-napers by death in extreme cases; insists on legislation against the insurance combine; wants noit-residents to take cut a license for hunting, and praise the county and township rcloini laws. ThtT message will b.« f i,.nd complete on the side page ~i to-day’s Demoi RA*r L(t <veiy taxpayer when ho goes to pay bis taxes this year remen her tint the credit primarily for the sa\ing of one-,half made in his county tax. belongs to the <HAT. ilc only paper in J taper comity that had the temerity to contind for a more economical count y mln i l ist rat ion and lower taxes 'l.fiE I h.MocitAT was established al> mt three years ago, and, since its < -tablishment and its fight for th • people, the county tax levy I io. I), on reduced 31 cents on each H'H» r.f property valuation. This means a saving of $3.10 on every ; I .bOO of taxables in Jasper eotmly '. This saving affects republican a ; well as democratic taxpayers. Some of the former have at the behest of the spoilsmen done everything in their power to kill off THE Democrat during this i imo. Don’t you t hink, gentlemen. of watching out for fp-ital spot to plunge a knife into its vitals, you owe it a vote of thanks for the savings it has made you? Come off you> perch of political prejudice and admit the truth,nnd then use one of the dollars it bis sa • \ou in taxes in paying f<•a y ( s tubscript ion to it. An t. inion •that can b ing a . -t, . }. substantial evidenced iej r S thia is one that every less of politics, s i ©rally.