Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Why doesn’t Cuba simply get the Sugar Trust to pick out a President for it, and let it go at at that? _ Tne state tax board has reduced the assessment of the Jasper County Telephone company from SSO per mile to $45. The lowa democratic state convention nominated T. J. Phillips for governor and re-affirmed, the principles of the Kansas City platform. Attorney-General Knox says he is not aware that there are any trusts. If we remember correctly M. A. Hanna said something of the same sort about a year ago. In the bridge letting in Pulaski county last week the Winamac company secured eight of the nine contracts let, against four competitors, and at a big saving for the county. The Democrat this week completes the publication of Marion township’s personal assessment, and next week will take up Remington. t Back numbers of the Democrat containing all the assessments s<> far as published can be had for 5 cents per copy at this office. Washington dispatches state that President McKinley has declined to pardon a Louisville bank ppesideut who embezzled a big part of the bank's funds. This is the first instance we have heard of where William refused imperial clemency to a bank .looter during his entire occupancy of the presidential chair, and we are of the opinion that the story is a “fake.”

During the last twelve months the total shipment of poultry and eggs —from Missouri has been $12,571,467.83. This is an increase of almost SSOO,(XX) over the previous year. The state labor bureau has made some comparisions with these figures as a basis. Aggregating the shipments of wheat, corn, oats, flaxseed, rye, barley, timothy seed, elover seed, millet seed, cane seed castor beans, broomcorn, hay, straw and apples, and the Missouri hen beats the aggregation $75,000. Take all the products of forest and daily, and the barnyard is still ahead. Combine the value of the products of all the coal mines, the nurseries and the orchards and the hen is nearly $500,000 ahead. Poultry and eggs equal in shipping value one-fifth the recipts from all the cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and mules, The drought has not affected the hen. The harvest of the barnyard will do. much to offset the loss of the corn crop. The low grade clerk in the Post Office Department who was discovered working on the night foitpe of the Census Bureau, was compelled to resign the latter place because Director Merriam could not countenance the drawing of two government salaries by one man—after it had been made public. The heads of other government bureau® do, however, countenance the drawing of two salaries by one mail. Maj. Wm. P. Huxford, draws $2,100 a year as retired Captain in the Army, and about the same amount as Clerk of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs; Charles E. Morse 4 draws $2,100 a year as a retired Army Captain, ard $1,600 a year as Disbursing Clerk of the I’. S. Bureau of Labor; Herman Schreinerdraws $2,100 as a retired captain, qnd $2,000 as a clerk in t lie office of Commissioner of Railroads There are others, but these examples are sufficient to show that the law against the drawing of two government saleries is a dead letter, whenever the man who wishes to do the drawing has pull enough. In addition to two salaries, the official 'mentioned above enjoy, as retired army officers, the privilege of purchasing all their family supplies from the U. S. Quartermaster's Department, at the wholesale price which the government pays for them, quite a valuable privilege to the man who purchases the supplies of a large house.