Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

Next time Gen. Lee calls on Captain. Genera] Blanct) he will use a louder 1 knocker.—Philadelphia Ledger. Grape shot monopolizes the popular a|-j tention which the peach crop usually claims at this time of year.—Washington Star. The blowing up of the Maine can nomore be downed or put in the background than could Banquo’s ghost.—Salt LakeHerald. Gen. Lee is safe out of Havana. AncL when he returns at the head of an American army he will be safe in Havana. — Cincinnati Tribune. In the matter of privateering, If Spain proposes to indulge in it we shall havesomething to say to Spain’s private ear.— New York World. Perhaps this is a good time to remember that seventy of the Maine victims are still lying at the bottom of Havana harbor. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. The fact that nobody was hurt in that scrimmage in Congress is likely to give the Spaniards another supply of overconfidence. —Milwaukee Sentinel. It might not be a bad idea to send a few Comanche Indians to Cuba, just to teach Spain a few of the amenities of civilized warfare. —St. Paul Dispatch. Neither this country nor Cuba may be any better off from the Senate oratory, but the Senators themselves feel a great deal better.—Kansas City Journal. The cruiser New Orleans has no steamheating apparatus, but it will be able to make it hot enough for the Spanish if given half a chance.—Chicago Dispatch. The time has arrived when Spain can tnaterially add to the enduring powers of her naval forces by the purchase of a few-first-class lifeboats.—Milwaukee Sentinel. A great deal may be tolerated in legis* lators, but it’s certainly not parliamentary to make a motion to lay one of the opposition on the table or the floor. —Philadelphia Times. Lillian Russell wants to be an army nurse. With Lillian acting in that capacity there would be a great incentive for the men to keep out of the hospitals.— Washington Post. By placing his flag on our consulate, John Bull is performing about the same office as the man who holds the coat of a friend while the latter whips his enemy.— Washington Post. Probably there is more or less truth in Senator Hoar’s statement that submarine mines like that which blew np the Maine are not kept for playthings in private families in Havana. —Boston Herald. Robert Emmet's epitaph has not been written, but the time is near at hand when a monument will stand over the graves of the Maine's sailors, and the monument will rest upon free soil. —Omaha WorldHerald. This will be the history of the war: Uncle Sam—Git! Sagasta—Nit! And then they fit. And Spain quit. —Boston Globe.