Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Somebody ought to civilize Russia with a big stick. Would it not be a good idea to call off a few strikes? A new railway merger is reported. Mr. Knox will kindly sit up and take notice. Possibly the Arkansas could be fitted with wheels and converted into an armored anto car. What has become of all of the arbitration boards that were going to guarantee industrial peace f Perhaps what ails these Indiana toughs is that they never took a college course In making love. Though there were 5,000 persons present at the railway' conductors’ meeting in Pittsburg no one got punched. Considering how deeply in earnest Japan is in making threats against Russia, it would be mere politeness on Russis’s part to look alarmed. So far as has been disclosed op to date there was an elaborate plot wherein the conspirators spent much time snd effort in perfecting arrangements not to blow op the Umbria. Russia need not worry about American criticisms of its Manchurian policy. If It must have something to worry about let it ponder upon American criticism of the Russian policy in BessaraMa.