Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — The Return of his Excelleucy, the Consul to Turk’s Island. [ARTICLE]

The Return of his Excelleucy, the Consul to Turk’s Island.

From the Dem iCr-itic Sentinel. . The Consul to Turk’s Island returns from that retreat of salt and ““(fuaiao'feffilizefs Tir higTf feather." He states in his “Message” that reports reached .him that “Rensselaer was moribund: her inhabitants lethargic or comatose. It was said that idiots gathered lin groups in the shade of buildings to dawdle away the hoars: and that* linns engaged in professions and trade, were enervated and spiritless.' By these mischievous “reports others have been discouraged .from investing here, and capital was driven away. All of this imputation is false. -There Is no foundation for it —-The4>ad—reputation -that- has-

gone out may be traced directly to the miserable apoligies for newspapers which the town has been cursed. 'News, papers are supposed to bo like mirrors, reflecting the life and character of the places where they are located. These bastard sheets, half printed from storeotype plates in the city of Chicago, and published in the suburbs of town; political mendicants depending upon party alms and cheap patent ndsftnm advertisements for the indolent existence they eke out, reflect but- themselves, apd in themselves the ever liYing truth that public charity is to industrial enterprises like the fabled waters of Lethaa springs—in moderation, stimulating; in exeess, stupefying' ’ etc. ' ’ v But on bis return be says lie finds “all this imputation is false. There is no foundation for it in fact.’k He i&ids the town vastly extended in its limits and is surprised at the improvements made. He finds a handsome new school building and a costly jail added

thereto. He finds three instead of two hanks, arid a prospect for a fourth, h He finds two large three-story hotels under good management, and prosperous. He finds a standard occupying the road bed of the narrow-gauge, and extending to Chicago, He gaz s with astonishment upon the improvements made, and the progressive stride of our people. But what galls him is the newspapers. “These bastard sheets, HALF printed from stereotype plates in the city of Chicago, and published in the suburbs of town;” filled with correspondence and news throughout the county and town, comprising equal space to the self-vaunted home print, (with the literature, news, etc., of Chicago print added thereto; stirs up the guano, and it flows freely in the “Message. Then, too, a further reason for the flow of Consulistic gall, the reminiscences of the past. The ‘Union,’ which sought new name and new form of make-up when it passed from the control of the enterprising, pushing, and spirited ‘Message’ man, was one of “the e bastard sheets three-fourths printed from stereotype plates in the city of Chicago,” and is a standing witness to the fact that the “push” and “spirit” with which he is now so overloaded, did not pqssesahim to any great extent in other days. So far as the “Bfntinel” is concerned it courts a comparison with the Message.

People have a peculiar idea about the duties of congressman: Mr. Owen recently received a letter from a Logansport lady which r ead as follows; “Mr. Owen, will you be kind enough to take the inclosed sample and see if you can match it, the lady who gave me the goods said she bought it in Washington. Please hurry up as my dressmaker but am very much interested in a man who did, and who, if the goo ds come all right, will probably do so agaip.” —Logansport Journal.