Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The saloonatic raids in Kansas still continue. Oh, no, the administration will not force Cuba, but — Who would have thought that we would grow to a two billion Congresscountry so soon ? Carrie Nation went to Chicago, but has gone away without wrecking anything. Carrie knows when -the case is hopeless. The Republicans make no secret of the fact that tl\ey mean to make Eddie’s coronation look like thirty cents by the side of Mac’s. Although Mr. Carnegie has given away a good many libraries, it may be noted that he did not give away his steel mills, not by several millions. General Fred Grant has been' jumped over 804 captains, 277 majors, 98 lieutenant-colonels, find 77 colonels of the regular army. It} pays to be the son of your father Mr. Hanna says that in the subsidy bill a principle is at stake. We imagined that it was somebody’s interest, but in any event, the country would like to see the bill and not the principle at the stake. The British, it lias been announced, have no intention of their South African policy. The real question, however, Is whether the Boers will permit them to change their South -African practice.

Few Republican Senators see any need of any extra session. This is because few of them really favor the subsidy bill. McKinley sees a good many reasons why one will lie necessary. Is this for an exactly opposite reason? . The only Indiana editors that can bo found who favor the subsidy bill is the one who is running the Muncie News, the paper which until recently was owned by Mr. Neely, and the Rensselaer Republican. Naturally, both papers are in favor of subsidies. Not the least important result of the Boer war to Great Britain is the fact that by it she has lost the friendship of Holland, which has been on the most intimate terms with her for several decades. This is another thing that Chamberlain did not think of. The expenses of the Uni]tod States for its army and navy (not including pensions) for the current year, are larger than those of Great Britian for the same period of time, although the latter has 250,000 men in the field in active service. This is a fact.

Secretary Root has informed the Senate, in answer to a question, that he has no authority over the men who are looting Porto Rico, the island now being under civil authority. But who is reponsible for tho appointment of these men? Can any one tell? The Geological Survey semiofficially declares that the original Garden of Eden is to be found in c the Philippines, probably in Luzon. This, of course, will end all carping a$ -the Government for buying a war there. No price is too high to pay for the old home of our dear relatives Adam and -Eve. One Government bureau Reports that the United States now produces ship building steel plates • cheaper than any other nation in ■the world, while another bureau contends that the material for building steel ships costs the American builders far more than itdoes the foreign ones. The only explanation is that the stoel makers sell their plates cheaper abroad than they do at home—which, by the way, happens to be a fact.