Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

_ ; Oh. no, of course not! Missionaries never loot. Occasionally, as in the case of China, they in ay be afflicted with Kleptomania. The ravens fed Elijah of old, but will they attend to the new Elijah-Dowie of Chicago, or will he have to depend on the jays? McKinley, fore ver! Why should't he have a third term and a fourth, too. for that matter, if the trusts want him to. They decide things nowadays. Minister Conger has carried one county in lowa in his race for the Governorship. Perhaps the Administration will help him carry the rest to insure his nomination. Chauncey Depew’s third term interview has been given the same reception that was accorded Dewey’s announcement as a candidate last spring. No one will take it seriously. Although it was early in the day, still, it is believed by many people that Chauncey must have been feeling in after dinner mood when he sprang that third term conundrum. Mrs. Eddy, it seems, has made between one and two million dollars out of her Christian Science fad. Evidently, she does not believe in muzzling the ox that treads out the wine press. By the way, it is very singular that the cable told us nothing of the gift to Minister Conger of the lock of the gate of the Forbidden City. Is it possible that Minister Conger looted it? Perish the thought. ] There is little doubt that President McKinley played a confidence game on the country when he stirred up the recent talk about an extra session. As a matter, of fact, people who know, declare that he never had the least idea of convening Congress. Our commercial treaties with most of the European countries expire next year, and unless the Senate ratifies the reciprocity treaties in the meanwhile, we shall have a tine full fledged tariff war on our hands about ten minutes after they do so. The curious thing al>out the territories part of the Supreme Court decision is that Justice Brown’s reasoning on the subject was opposed by all eight of his associates. though four of them agreed to his conclusions for altogether different reasons. About one-third of the total income of the I nited States is now expended in pensions, military and naval affairs. Again one person in ten receives Government salary or support of one kind or another.! That is, one-third of our income ■ is handed over to one-tenth of our population. There is food for thought in this, Cuba had to give in, of course. No other result was possible , between two such contestants as that little island and the United States. But the administration will go on record as having delib-1 erately told the delegates things; which it was not willing to stand for, when put in cold type. In I other words it stands responsible for self confessed bunco game.