Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Nowadays, when a woman goes into a drugstore, the druggist looks closely to see whether sbe brings a prescription or a hatchet. / There are but two more weekß of the legislature. At this writing less than twenty bills have been passed, out of over 1,000 introduced in both branches. The Rensselaer Republican is the only Republican paper so far as we know in this part of the state, that is upholding the Mark Hanna ship subsidy steal.—Lowell Tribnne. (rep.y | We are glad we are about to get the Philippines. When Morgan and his syndicate of bankers get control of the United States our children will have a place to go to. —Fowler Leader (rep.) And now Speaker Henderson is against Hanna’s ship subsidy bill. The Rensselaer Republican should not question his Republicism along with that of Crumpacker. —Lake County News.

The world is rapidly sickening of the spectacle its soldiers are making of themselves in China. The cloud of falsehood that obscured things over there is rapidly clearing away and it is being recognized that most of the rights of the case are on China’s side and that the allies have behaved worse than Red Indians would have done.

Down at Shelbyville George M. Ray was convicted of filing fraudulent claims against the county. This is*the same Ray who unloaded several thousand dollars worth of useless supplies etc, upon North township. His conviction was probably thoroughly deserved. In fact the mystery is that he could pursue such looting methods and keep out of jail.—Lake County News. The Rensselaer Republican makes an agonized howl about Congressman Crumpacker’s refusal to support the ship subsidy grab. The Republican seems to be of that class who put party above everything else—who will support the devil if he is on their ticket. The subsidy bill is wrong in principle and Crumpacker is right in opposing it. He will lose nothing by the stand he has taken, even though the Republican does oppose him.—Hebron News, (rep.) Mr. Salter of Michigan was here Saturday in the interest of a sugar beet factory that is to be built at Shelby as soon as the weather will permit. He said he would be back in a few days and is anxious to make some contracts for small tracts. The factory at. Shelby is to cost a half million dollars and have a capacity of 500 tons of beets per day. Shelby is chosen as the location because Mr. Shelby, vice president of the G. R. & I. railroad, owns 17,000 acres of land there and has $50,000 stock in the company building the factory.— Starke County Democrat.