Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Reciprocity is a good deal nearer free trade than was the revenue reform advocated. ; by Cleveland and the Democratic party in 1888 and 1892. It’s a wonder, therefore, that the extreme protectionists don’t denounce the reciprocityites as traitors —as they denounced the Democrats when they advocated the same thing under another name. A document issued by the bureau of information of the war department shows that the annual cost of the American soldier is $1,014,615; the German soldier, $201.88; the French, #197.65; the j Austrian, $194.54; the Italian, $192,28; the Russian, $155.75. Because of cost of the Boer war, perhaps, the cost of the British soldier is not given. Roosevelt is going down to Harvard to have the degree L. L. D. conferred. is one of Roozy’s strong points, and before he gets through with his present job, his title may look something like the following; Theodore Roosevelt, President of the U. S„ colonel U. S. V., L. L. D., A. 8., D. P., G. O. P. D. Q. The two last “titles” will in all probability not appear until near the close of his term. The prophetic words of Oom Paul Kruger, that the price of subduing the South African republic would stagger humanity, is being fully recognized. Already 75,000 British are killed and maimed, and $700,000,000 spent in the ineffectual attempt to subjugate the liberty-loving Dutch The situation is analogous to the American situation in the Philipf lines. England, like the U. 8., ong ago declared the war over, but the fighting, it appears, still continues with more or less success for the “rebels,” who refuse to be subjugated.

Salem tp., Pulaski county, which recently defeated a subsidy for the T. & C. T. Ry., will vote again on the proposition, Nov 12. Those who are foremost in calling the second election gave a bond to the Pulaski county commissioners for the expense of the election if it goea against them; if it carries the expense, of course, comes out of the tax voted, providing the road is built. Our commissioners neither asked for nor • were given anv such guarantee for ordering tne second election in Barkley to vote aid for the “Rensselaer branch” of the Gifford road, and aB there is no prospect of the road ever being Ijutlt. jußt as The Democrat prophesied at the time, the tax payers of the county foot the bill. That the wnvs of imperialism are not laid in easy lines is amusingly demonstrated by a statement of Capt. Allan D. McLean, surgeon in the United States hospital atMuntilupain the Philippines. He reports that the seven hundred school teachers shipped to the Philippines are proving a “white elephant;” that they “have raised more pow-wow and disturbance than the whole army did during the palmy days of the insurrection;” “that they cannot live on their pay, $75, per month, without commissary privileges," which have not been extended to them; that “about one hurdred have already muuied and the remaining six hundred are busying themselves rignt and left trying to get into the matrimonial band wagoh.”