Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1901 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Petty stealing is regarded as a lynching offense in California. Manilla papers plense copy. We must not forget that the American dag now covers a limited number of slaves and some hundreds of “plural wives" in Sulu. Now why doesn’t Mr. Morgan buy China, pay the indemnity and have himself chosen Emperor? This would solve things so nicely. It would be advisable if Justice Brown would tell us whether the part of the Constitution that forbids slavery, follows the flag to Sulu. Just as General Blood has utterly exterminated the Boers, they turn up and slay some 174 Britishers. They are evidently lively ghosts. By dispensing with the services of twenty-four chaplains, King Edward VII, in his efforts to economize will pretty soon be forced to do his own praying. General Grant Bays we are justified in taking the Philippines because they are rich beyond compare. That’s what every successful thief has said of his booty. Judging from the later reports from South Africa there are a few fighting Boers left in the field. And yet it was only a few days ago that Sir Alfred Milner wa6 made a peer.

The mid-summer meeting of the Indiana democratic editorial association will be held at Logansport, Thursday and Friday, July 11 and 12, with headquarters at Murdock hotel. The appellants brief in the case of Charles R. Weatherhogg, vs. board of commissioners of Jasper county, for extra services as architect on the new court house, was filed in the supreme court last Friday. It has been recently decided by an Indianapolis judge that it is no offense to open a Jackpot with a counterfeit coin. Wait until the trick is worked on him and he will not hesitate to change his decision. The Taft Commission has formally extended free trade to the island of Jolo under the so-called “treaty” made by General Bates with the Sultan. We had imagined that treaties had to be ratified by the Senate.

Can the recent decision of the Supreme Court long stand? Can it even command respect? Decided one way hv the vote of one man and decided the other way by the vote of the same man, whose reasoning was not sustained in either case, even by those who concurred in his conclusions, must it not fall to pieces when the later cases come to be decided? The Knox Crescent, Starke county's second democratic paper, established a little more than one year ago, has been sold to R. S. Wellock of Delphi, who will issue it on neutral lines hereafter. There was really no call for a second democratic paper in Starke county, and the Crescent had practically no democratic support. The Starke County Democrat amply covers the field and is one of the best county papers in northern Indiana.