Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Whatever you do, don’t cast your bread upon the waters. A sub might get it. No, brother, you shouldn't let up on the speculating hog, or he’ll have your shirt soon. Occasionally, through charity, we permit Senor Carranza to squeeze

*.° . ■ . a word or two onto an obscure page. ’ ; Yes, Alexander, the 'Lord you but He will not chase yoti all over the country trying to pound it into your thick skull. It is becoming apparent to any school boy that the more congress talks of food control the less it knows of what it is talking about. This more daylight campaign is of little moment to the average country edjior. He’ll have to whoftp it tip day and night just the same. Again, we remark, I’ncle Sam Is slow at starting, but he pushes the breeze and kicks up the dust -and raises hum-hum when he does get Io going. The cost of everything is still soaring ,and congress is still twaddling, and the speculating sharks are still sucking the warm blood of the nation. » Don’t bank too much on the smiles, and kisses you are going to got from the French lassies, son. 'the fighting is done in the trenches, and not on the boulevards of Paris. Jailing -traitors and alien enemies is quite jrroper and should bg done in . every case, but we’d like to B see. the c'Utsses put to work and made to earn their keep. Taxing, loyalty to feed disloyalty does not' appeal to usThe Wiker, we opine, might just as. well save his breath and the millions he is -paying in subsidizing foreign correspomlents. When the war is over the allies will dictate their own terms and firs kaiserSfiip will walk up and humbly receive the crumbs , that/are tossed to him. A raging lioness ■ that refuses* to rage has been kicking up all’ sorts of excitement around Champaign :nd -Monticello, Illinois, and hundreds of arrned . men have been scouring the country in a desperate effort to keep at a safe distance from the toothless jaws of the beast. The poor thing is probably wandering around hunting for the cage from which it escaped.