Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Law Relating To justices. [ARTICLE]

Law Relating To justices.

If the Democrats win in 1904, will Mr. Bryan claim the Lincoln post office on the ground that be has been editing the Commoner there for four years? Before breaking out again, General Eagan should study the valedictory of Governor Pingree and ascertain how to combine red hot words with absence of profanity. The Christian Scientists have attempted to persuade woman that their love of dress is imaginary and that rags are as good as fine raiment. Here, however, the syst-m broke down. A man worth SIOO,OOO used to be considered enormously wealthy; now he is a pauper. So an army of 100,000 once looked huge for this country, but now it seems somewhat miscroscopic. Kansas is suffering from .a dearth oi railroad cars to market its wheat crop because of the heavy demand for them in the ’ south for moving the cotton crop. Can we have too much prosperity? Yes, yes, brethren, if . you had in vested in Wall Street some time ago, you would now be rolling in wealth. But you didn’t Invest. Therefore stocks.went up. If yo i had,«probably they would have gone down.

Americans are admittedly at the front of the world in electrical appliances. They achieved this po sition by slow steady progress, the cumulative effect of thousands of inventors, each of’whom added a little to progress, while making a profit for himself. Washington is hot in the collar over the assertion of the Blaine Club of Cincinnati, that it could not secure proper aicoiumodatious to view the inauguration. The inaugural committee declares that there is abundant accommodation for all at regular hotel rates. It is not altogether creditable to the fairness of Christianity that the average person can see nothing to be said on the Chinese Aide of the questiom Yet, if any other country had tried to treat the United States as the powers have treated China for years, the entire country would have gone mad with rage. The British policy of devastation in South Africa was bqgun on the theory that the country wad 1 - conquered, and *that the Boers be punished. No one objected to it,/until it turned out that the direct, result was to stir up the war again. Then John Bull began td squeal, as he usually does wherf he is hurt.

The Boer war is estimated to be costing Britain $2,000 every three minutes. This is pretty expensive whether considered as an amusement or as an investment. This country may be bad enough in summer, but it is at the least prepared for winter, while Europe is not. Amercans abroad are suffering far more from cold this year than Europeans ever suffered over here from heat. The Senate, it is said, will alter the House war tax bill almost from the ground-up. It will, it is* said, leavSh the repeal of the stamp taxes on express receipts and telegrams in the bill, but will put back all the rest and then make a horizontal reduction of about 25 or 50 per cent on everything. Of course, no one questions the accuracy of Tammany’s report on vice collections. Evidently, there were a number of smart men Who played the organization and the vicious simultaneously, deceiving both and making a profit of both. And of course Croker knew nothing about it. Of course not.

Judge Taylor of the Tippecanoe circuit court, in the case of Jacobs against Winont, held last week that the law of 1898, with respect to the election of justices of th£ peace, was in force at the time the plaintiff was elected, and that the law only authorized an election to be held for justices of the peace elected at the November election, 1894, and every four years thereafter, and that consequently there was no law authorizing the plain ifiPs e’ejtion at the November election, 1900. This decision will apply to all justices of the peace elected at the election in 1900,. providing proceedings are institute# to compel them to vacate their offices.