Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Even in a sbam fight the British lost a torpedo boat; is it any wonder that they suffered when they went up against the real thing in South Africa? , _ The plea that the tariff should be removed from trust made articles is met by the reply that to do so “■would disturb business.” Undoubtedly it would disturb the trust business—and why shouldn’t that business he disturbed? Uncle Sam is to be congratulated; the profits on the Filipino trade have so risen that they are now almost one per cent of the cost of managing the islands. After a while it is hoped that they may increase to two per cent. The lowa Repulicaiiß have certainly mastered the art of riding at once two horses going in opposite directions. In their recent platform, they endorse the Dingley bill unqualifiedly and then pronounce for its immediate revision. Good for lowa. The democrats of Wood county, Ohio, by a voto of 45 to 54 refused to endorse the “Ohio platform,” and did endorse the Kansas City platform. Wood county cast 13,184 votes in the electiou of 1900, 5,752 of which were democratic. Will the Indianapolis Sentinel editor please take notice? Great Britain’s total expenses for the last fiscal year, including •those of the war, were only a few million over one billion dollars, —not quite so much as those of the United States with only a little picnic in the Philippines in progress. But, then, the Republican party isn’t in charge of the finances in Great Britiau What presumption it is for the Knights of Labor to try to compel Attorney General Knox to execute his sworn duty and prosecute the Steel Trust! Do not the Knights know that Mr. Knox drew the articles under which the Steel Trust was incorporated and that he was chosen for his present post by the influence of the Steel Trust? How can they ask him to prove treacherous to it. It’s nil very well for the goverment to declare that it can not convince Neeley because it cannot compel witnesses to go to Havana. The fact is that outside witnesses would merely lend corroborative detail the real evidence against him is hr Havana in the post offict However the goverment doesn’t intend to convict Neeley. He stands too close to some other thieves in Washington. In the “official ’ publication of the allowahces mule by the couuty commissioners at their August session, as published in the Apologist, we observe a number of inaccuracies from the record of allowances as made by the commissioners, as really shown in their official records and the unofficial publication as made by us last week. The “official” publication shows the allowance of the claim of “W. B. Austin, rebate Robt. Goodrick liq lie. $13.88.” The records and the unofficial publication showß that this claim was dismissed. The “official” publication shows that Stoner & Day were allowed SB2 “exp. poor farm.” The records and the unofficial publication shows their allowance to have been only $2.88. The “official” publication shows that the Burt-Torry Co., were allowed one bill for books and stationery, $264. The records and the unofficial publication show this allowance to have been *264.30. The records and the unofficial •publication shows an allowance of SB2 to B. Forsythe for groceries for poor farm. The “official” publication mnkes no mention of this allowance at all. So we might goon and mention other inaocuracies, which were without doubt the fault of the printer, but apace forbids. The “official” publication of those allowances made in the Apologist cost the taxpayers of -Jasper about $6. The unofficial, *>ut ACCURATE publication made