Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — The Common Council. [ARTICLE]

The Common Council.

And now it is claimed that Mrs. Nation is an Indiana product! You can’t keep an Indianian down. The President has once more announced that the Philippine war is over. He is getting to be a regular Roberts ora prophet. Another Post Office embezzler has been caught in Cuba. The government can’t have appointed all the criminals to colonial office, can it? The Senate puts the tax back on bank checks that it may reduce duties on beer and tobacco. The G. O. P. is certainly the party of great moral ideas! Nit! Lynching is just as lad as it ever was but comment and rebuke has dropped off a good deal nowadays, since it became a northern as well as a southern industry. Say, what would editors of the northern papers have said, if Mrs. Nation had been raising Sheol in the South instead of in Kansas? Can’t you just imagine them? The Pulaski county commissioners let the contract last week for furnishing the the three classes of stationery for that county the ensuing year $619.71 —$820.59 less than what Jasper county is to pay. Out of 26 elections to the Senate exactly half are re-elections; and seven more are party changes. Where the party remains the same only six changes have been made. The Senate is certainly permanent. General De Wet has been very considerate since the Queen died. So far as we know, he has not captured more than half the usual number of British soldiers and convoys in the week that has elapsed since then. President Arthur once vetoed a river and harbor bill that carried $30,000,000 on the ground that it was extravagant. The new bill carries double that amount although some of the streams must have dried up since Arthur’s time. While those wolves raving around the tree in which Teddy took refuge, we wonder if his thoughts wandered to the Senate and he took comfort in the fact that Chandler and Pettigrew at least could never rave around his throne then*.

Alia! The lion was standing! over the prostrate form of the I noble dogs, champing his t< eth in - rage, when gallant Teddy rushed in, thrust the but of his rifle; between the yawning teeth and {llunged his trusty knife into the ; least’s heaving heart. Aha! Viva San Juan! The need of - extreme haste in passing the ship subsidy bill is evident when it is stated hat the American line is building two ships, which, if finished after the bill passes, will save it from the necessity of building others to, enable its foreign built vessels to draw subsidies If finished before the bill becomes a law, the poor ixiverty-stricken lines will have to do some more building. Mark Twain is a humorist, but he is somethig more—a man wise in his day and generation, who sees wrongs and smites them with a mighty weapon.- Anent the advent of the now century he says: I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiau Cuow, Manchuria, South Africa and the Philippine!!, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle and her mouth full of pious hypocricies. Give her soap and towl, but hide the look-ing-glass.—The Working Democracy. “

A Wisconsin legislator proposes to subsidize mothers, by paying them an annual pension, the innount~tb>depend on the number of children theyshave borne. This is looking after linfant industrux with a vengeance i The Senate tax seduction bill is ' a wjgfderful document;—-If any Xpm can make head or tail of a comparison between it and the House bill, he is wiser than we are. Anything to obscure the facts and fool the people, is the motto of the Republicans in both Houses. The trial of Geo. M. Ray, editor of the “official organ” of Shelby county, is now on at Shelbyville for presenting false claims and conspiracy to defraud the county. It is charged that Ray printed and was paid for enough county blanks to last the county for 100 years, thousands of which were never ordered. The Indiana Assembly senate committee on county and town’ ship business reported unanimously in favor of Senator Laymain’s bill to repeal all lawsallowing townships to vote subsidies to railroads. We sincerly hope the bill will become a law. There is no more sense in voting subididies to corporations than there is to any other private enterprise. Most people w’ill quite agree with the Taft Commission that it is high time to establish civil rule in the Philippines and to do away with the military regime. The action of General Mac Arthur in deporting an editor who objected to offical embezzlement cannot but be disquieting to American citizens in the Philippines, to say nothing of its disagreeable effects upon the Filipinos whom we are striving to impress with the blessings and privileges of American civilization. —Chicago Chronicle.

“The great Napoleon,” says the New York Journal, “to whom little Mr. McKinley bears such n marked external resemblance, had no hesitation in drawing upon the rank and file for officers. He made seventeen Kings, Marshals, Dukes and Generals out of private soldiers. And he got good work out of them too.” There is too great danger, though, that the many appointments to be made under the army reorganization bill will be filled from the ranks of those who have had no experience. The pressure on the War Department is said to be tremendous already. Some of those who have been private soldiers in the Philippine Island for a couple of years should be given a chance at shoulder-straps.

The common council met in regular session Monday night with all members present excepting councilman McColly. A petition to improve South Cullen street, from Washington street to Grace, street, was referred to street committee. The mayor was authorized to execute an agreement with The Standard Oil Company Co. for oil and waste to bo used during the coming year. The petition of W. W. Reeve's for a tile drain on Eliza street was referred to the committee on sewers. The suggestion of the fire chief in regard to transforming the J chemical engine into a supply wagon and the bell tower into a drying tower, was referred to the I committee on fire department. I KO ATI FUND. •I C Entire. work onatreet $ 480 I Ikiviil McCoiuiluiy. Millie 75 Jomjili Roweii. .min' 2 25 cokiuhation fund. Leslie ('lark, printing bonds 5 75 A 11 Hurns, service at tire Jun. 21 2 50 John Rusli, same 2 50 H I. (lay, same 2 50 J E Hopkins. Rulin' 2 50 KG Warren, mine 2 50 J II Hoover, same 2 50 E COwetiH. Name 2 50 , E R Hopkins. Mime 2 50 I WATER FUND, l» E Hollister, salary 22 50 KI.KCTKIC LIGHT FUND. C SChamlierlain, salary :«) 00 I l.i'iii Huston 22 50 ; Peter Giver 22 50 Osa Ritchey, delivering coai :I5 (XI Staiiilurii Oil Co . oil 770 Parke Co. Coal Co., coni 178 35 “I was in bed five weeks with the grip—nerves shattered, stomach and liver badly deranged. Was cured with Dr. Miles’ Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills.”—D. C. Walker, Hallsville, O.