Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — The Same Will Apply Here. [ARTICLE]

The Same Will Apply Here.

.Singularly enough, the saloon keepers and the W. 0. T. U. are ip accord in opposing the canteen. Uncle Sam cleared some six or seven hundred million on the balance oftradeinthe last fiscal year. Good toy, Samuel, do it again. We hope that Secretary Wilson will succeed in growing Cuban cigars in the United States. Still, we shall prefer to import ours from Havana for a while yet._ Champ Clark says that Bryan will be nominated in 1904 or will dictate the nominee. Yet, Mr. Bryan and Champ Clark both talk feelingly about emperors. The British are shocked because ' some of the Queen’s sherry has been sold to Americans. Their regret isn’t strong enough to lead them to buy it back however. GENERifL Sickles has insulted his army comrades by asserting that they sold their votes in exchange for Mr. Evans’ dismissal. The country will welcome disproof of the slander. The troubles in Hawaii, which did have some little experience in self government, should constitute a warning against giving too much power to the other islands, which have had none,

Now we know why the legations at PekiD escaped. Mrs. Eddy was praying for them. But suppose there had been a Chinese Mrs. Eddy praying against them, what then? Would the strongest pall have won?

A statute of the‘‘Matanzas-raule” killed by Admiral Sampson in his frightful bombardment of that place, has been unveiled in Madrid. Can’t Secretary Long send one of those West Indian medals to be hung around his neck?

Now for weeks to come we shall hear reporta of the fatalities brought about by the toy pistol. Every year there are a score or more of aguniz ing deaths from lock jaw brought about by this fiendish toy. How long, oh Lord, how long?

Half a dozen multi-millionaires chartered a special to take them from London to Southhampton to catch the steamer for home. London was much stirred thereby, no one seeming to suspect that they only wanted to have a quiet game of draw on the way down.

Few will believe that the O. A. R. voted the Republican ticket at the last election because they wanted Mr. Evans’ head. They voted their convictions, and did not cast their votes as a result of a bargain and sale. General Sickles insults the intelligence of the country when he says they did.

Monticello Journal. When one considers some financial sides oftliepark questionit becomes as interesting as ever. Pick up a paper and read of the excursions that go out of this city nearly every Sunday, and then inquire of the railroad agents how many tickets are sold. The chances are that you will be surprised. Why do they go? Twothirds of them will tell you that its for the sole purpose of avoiding the necessity of sitting around the house all day Sunday and counting their fingers. ‘•There’s no place here to spend the day,” they will tell you. It won’t do to say they ought to spend the day in church going. That might be the right thihg, but the fact that Ifie excursion trains are crowded is proof that they won’t do it. If Monticello had a good park with plenty of shade, good water and a number of swings a large part of those excursionists would remain at home and the money they spend, from $3 to $lO apiece, would go into the regular avenues of business right here at home, and, besides a larger per cent of them would attend at least one religious service each Sunday.

Judge Taft has been appointed Governor of the Philippines. Probably if it comes to the pinch, he will govern under the military powers of the president, but care will be taken not to assert this fact unless he is compelled by circumstances to (Jo so. yhe Supreme Court has not yet decided the status of the islands.