Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — Learn Practical Work. [ARTICLE]

Learn Practical Work.

Eacb farm is a local problem, and each farmer must be more or less of an experimenter. Farm boys of Illinois are always very much interested In corn. There are over 5,000 boys and girls In the state who raise corn to compete in the corn growing contests at their county farmers’ institutes, and this competition has led them to think of something besides the prizes they hope to win. Every one of them has learned something as to why and how plants grow and why some plants, like some men, thrive and prosper better than others. Careful attention to every detail in the growing and harvesting of a plat of corn is suggestive and enables a boy. to discover much for himself.—Farmers’ Advocate.

The criminal laws were intended to bring criminals to justice, and not for the purpose of allowing individuals to vent their spite on honest jieople. Will the gag rule of shutting off discussion of public questions in Jasper county be endorsed by the tax-payers, who have a right to know what is being done by its public officials? The Democrat has never made any charge against “Honest Abe” that it could not substantiate from his own records. Every statement made concerning him we propose to stand by. In the list of prominent speakers who are to be present at the republican love feast at Brook next Thursday we fail to discover the name of our “Honest Abe.” Why is this thusly?

A reader of The Democrat wants to know which one of the three female inmates at the poor farm wears all those smoked pearl buttons on her dress, or if they were divided up among all three? Was it our publications of the enormous amount of supplies required for the poorfarm that roused Abe’s ire and| induced him to get mad over publications made in this paper a year and a half ago? Gibson County commissioners have decided that when a man signs % blanket remonstrance against the granting Jof a saloon license he] can not revoke the signature for two years. The question came up on fthe application for license ofJacob Johnson of Patoka.

If by chance you should mention the large amount of supplies required for the support of the Jasper county poor farm, don’t mention “sugar” If you do, most any of the ringster is liable to make affidavit that he is the superintendent and have you arrested and thrown in jail for slander. Senator Hoar has a compilation from the government’s records showing that war and warfare have cost this nation one thousand million dollars in seven years about $2 per head, or $lO a family each year. If our taxes were direct instead of (indirect, and the tax-gatherer went from door to door and collected $lO at every home, how long would the terrible waste go on ? The “World’s Fair Industry” is galloping, hot-footed. The St.Louis outfit has got ten million dollars from the Federal treasury and Portland, JOre., Jamestown, Va., Wheeling, W. Ya., and the Mayflower Pilgrims want as much more. It looks as if they would get it, too. We are much given to acclamations of joy and multitudinousjfireworks and the celebrants find Uncle Bam easy.

In the death of Senator Mark Hanna the republican party loses its most powerful member and a man who, in our opinion, would have been the presidential nominee of that party had he lived. It will be noted in connection with Mr. Hanna’s death that most of the prominent men nowadays who fall sick are attended by a bevy of physicians, and almost invariably, where this is the case the victim dies, even though the ailment is nothing serious at the start. Each physician, apparently, has some hobby or experiment to work off on the patient, and we believe that in Senator Hanna’s case, like many other like cases that might be referred to, he had too many doctors.