Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

Japan speaks out plainly, like a nation that has found itself and has the courage of its convictions.—New York Tribune. Japan Is not anxious for a fight, but wishes it distinctly understood that she has quite a stock of ammunition on hand. —Scranton Tribune. Possibly the Supreme justices decided to take a vacation in order to see whether the flag won Id turn around and follow the court,—Grand Rapids Press. A great, growing, prosperous city being compelled to borrow money to pay running expenses shows extremely poor business management.—Toledo Blade. Some of the newspapers of the State are forgetting the all-important test—the seed corn question—while asserting that they were the first to publish sermons.—lowa State Register. The California prune crop is cornered. Do the grasping speculators who have executed this coup think California prunes are among the necessities of life?—Chicago Tribune. What shall we do with Aguinaldo, to bo sure? And what, by the way, would Aguinaldo have done with Funston if the game had goue the other way?—Minneapolis Times. Banished from the United States, prize fighting is to be transferred to Bermuda. A long-suffering and disgusted public has kicked the brutal sport out of the country.—Des Moines News. As a sort of compromise, the grounds of the Buffalo Fair may be kept open every other Sunday. This looks like making a distinction between being killed for a sheep and a lamb.—New Y’ork Stm. Enlightened Englishmen perceive that they must improve their methods and advance the intelligence and efficiency of their workingmen if they are to keep up in the industrial race.—Chicago Chronicle.

England has discovered that a king costs more than a queen. Perhaps the next discovery will come with the question of the century: “Kings come high; must we have them?”—Baltimore American. While other cities are scrambling for Carnegie libraries, Omaha is enjoying a handsome library erected by an enterprising people. When Omaha wants a good thing she buys it,—Omaha WorldHerald. Connecticut bachelors who are over 40 years of age have to pay a marriage license fee of SIOO. It would seem to the casual observer that a bachelor of over 40 was entitled to a subsidy.— Baltimore American. The New York World and the Hartford Times think that the capture of Aguinallo was a put-up job, and that Aguinaldo was in the plot from the very beginning. He was in it at the end all right. —Springfield Union. Japan is a good friend of the United States, and Russia is an older, if not a better one. Should the two nations tight, however, American sympathy would probably bo with David rather than Goliath. —Syracuse Herald. Funston’s strategy iu effecting the capture of Aguinaldo will restore the waning faith of the nation in the genuineness >f the incidents in Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales and in the career of the JitTbenainosy.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. One of the chief Tituses of disturbances in Russia is the great difference between the majority of the people and the few highly educated. The university students are restive under the system with which the ignorant peasants are satisfied, Kansas City Star. Before casting aspersions on Fttnston's feat of capturing Aguinaldo. the English press would do well to devise its counterpart in accomplishing the greatly desired corraling of a South African peregrinating pestilence called De Wet.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. There will never be a satisfactory settlement with regard to the Alaskan frdatier so long ns Great Britain claims that which is our own. She has no more right to push her borders westward in Alaska than we have to make a landing iu Scotland,—Providence Telegram. The people want enterprise. They want the news. They want these things, and want them served iu the best possible time and the best possible way. but the paper that seeks to establish itself on a solid foundation of sincerity and honesty is the only paper which lasts.—Denver Times. Amid voluminous and conflicting communications passing between the great powers over various Eastern questions only one thing is unanimously conceded —that Russia has and will continue to keep Manchuria. It is Russia that refrains from unnecessary letter writing.— Chicago Chronicle. The contention heretofore maintained in America that, tinier certain conditions, this government can*, withdraw from the vital engagements of the t'lay-ton-Bulwer treaty, and by so doing practically put an end to it, is justified by the provisions of the treuty itself. Philadelphia Telegraph.