Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

And now Leavenworth, Kansas, a city of 25,000 to 30.000 people, comes to the front and burns b negro at the stake for the regulation crime. The burning took place almost in the heart of the city, and was witnessed by 8,000 people. The negro protested his innocence to the last. These horrible, barbaric tortures and murders should cease, but how is it to be brought about? The history of these horrible punishments teaches us that geography cuts no figure in the case, and a black brute is as likely to be burned at the stake for rape in the north tiff in the south. The only difference is in the fact that they are more rare in the north because there are fewer negroes and these few are generally of a higher order of intelligence. Leavenworth and Leavenworth county are both republican, so it will be seen that politics cuts no more figure than geography. The late census figures furnish much food for thought. While every state in the Union except Nevada shows an increased population over the previous census, this increase has generally been in the cities and towns, and notin the farmftag districts. Nebraska shows the smallest gain—only 9.629 -while New York heads the list of those showing the largest —1,270,159. In Nebraska, however, no less than 37 counties show a loss, and in New York’s 60 counties 22 show a loss. In the great state of Kansas the total gain was but 43,399, and 55 of her counties show a loss. lowa, inour opinion the greatest and best agricultural state.in the Union, shows a total gain of 319,957, and only one county in the whole state shows a loss. This record is probably unequalled by any other state of like size. Even in Indiana with her 92 counties. 14 show a loss, and this loss is in some of the best agricultural districts of the state. The counties showing this are i Boone, Brown, Carroll, Crawford, Dearborn, Franklin, Hendricks, Jefferson, Lagrange,Ohio, Putnam, Switzerland, Union and Whitley. Illinois shows a loss in only 5 icounties? The South show a wonderful growth during the last de- ■ cade. Texas with her 246 counties gains 813,187, heading the list, and Georgia second, while even Arkansas has gained almost 200,000. Alabama gains 315,680: Arkansas, 183,385; Georgia. 378,978; Kentucky, 288,539; Louisiana, i 263,038; Mississippi, 361,670; Missouri. 427.481; North Carolina, 275.863: South Carolina, 189.167; ! Tennessee, 253,098; Virginia, 198,204; and West Virginia, 196,006; ' Minnesota is the only state of im- | portance that shows a gain in every county, and the total gain in her 83 counties is 449,568.

In reviewing the past century. St. Joseph's Collegian for January says i Progress has been' the watch-1 word of the now dead age. Though | it was ushered in on a ruddy [ stream of human blood, always; upheld its usurped prestige by the ; mighty power of human blood.! and was flooded out on a waving j stream of that self-same noble I blood; yet it has been an age of progress. Yes. progress if you | will; but not in all and every department. The chief glory of | itsb >asted progressive civilization, j is the perfection which it has . attained in the mechanism of ertiel instruments of war. Toslay quickly, decisively any number of enemies is the glorious end it lias attained The records of the last twelve months nreainple proof. Let them continue their destructive march even in the 2(>th century as they did in the nineteenth; such glory will yet receive its dooming dent h-warrant. * * * In this rampant, tiellowiug mob of evildoers there has been at least one voice that rounded the keynote ot the prime undertaking that might have shed an unfading luster on the deeds of*this much vaunted age: that whs the Peace ('onference at the Hague. But what has it berni? A mere childish farce. Its purpose was noble; but its results miserable. To convince youiself of the' inglorious fact read the least two years of the worlds history, and quietly and patiently swallow the bitter bill. There, too often, will you find , words that, had they been uttered by a pagan Attila or the bloodthirsty Nero, would have been heroic, but on the tongue of a I Christian ruler* they are godless, blasphemous. Such are the conditions; such the men that sway the destiny of nations. The only source whence glory and righteousness might have eminated. they have converted into a stream of shameless folly and injustice.. May r true lieacon guide, nay, thrust the leaders of the nations of the earth into brighter, more glorious paths. We wdl live in hope.