Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — All Hope Gone: [ARTICLE]

All Hope Gone:

ly tbb Indians will now turn their attention to hard work they will find life much e wier and more enjoyable. Dr. Hamiltom, of the U. £. Marine hospital service, in his report, warnthe country that it may be visited food by cholera, or other scourges. He believes it would pay thia country to make Havana a healthy seaport Pro* bably he is right. Clean up. A baseball combination has been termed in which all the leagues have become a part. We are pleased to note that 150 of the players will be unprovided for, and may now proceed to toil and spin like others of the lower order of the human family. This is indeed hard times for memhereof Congress, which is not confined to the Senate: Blair in New Hampshire. Ingalls in Kansas and Evarts in New York, all sot aside by the> Legislatures, Indeed, farming soon be known as the only vocation in which a man may be seen he can hold his job. . - The Leavenworth Times says that such suffering from hunger as exists among the Indians results, not from governmental neglect, but from the gluttony and improvidence of the Indians themselves, who, as soon as they obtain their supplies, begin a season of festivity and gorging which ends only when their rations are well nigh exhausted.

Kams as farmers have organized, as a side issue to the Alliance, to protect themeelves against the foreclosing of mortgagee by investors who have loaned them money. As we understand it, it is a mutual affair whereby they may aid each other when in financial straits and are about to lose their farms because unable to pay interest. The object is a good one. A better scheme is sot to give mortgages on a farm, only in an extreme emergency. First day after bank breaks: "We will be able to pay 1.30 on the dollar.’’ First month after bank breaks: "We will surely be able to pay 30 cents on 4he dollar.” Banks withinthemselves are all right, but too often men who eonduct them are dishonest and ought to be highwaymen; or are incompetent and ought to be wood-choppers Banking is a business, nothing more por less, had it requires men of more than ordinary business capacity and opacity to conduct it

Portugal seems to have got the better of England in the agreement between the two countries regarding their conflicting claims oB territory in Africa. Undoubtedly Portugal got more than she had any right to expect, and more than she would have obtained in a dispute with any other European joatioa, ; tiement will stop all the war folk which has recently been heard in the Portugal capital, and the work on the fortifications around London may now be suspended. Senator Cockerell, of Missouri, has turned Farmers’ AHiaooe, and is talking as if he has done nothing all his days but hold plow handles, etc In a recent interview he says: “One idea is that the corporations* and monopolies bear the same relation to .government and society to-day that slavery did some thirty years ago. A new machine had to be built with which to down slavery. This machine was the Republican party. It has accomplished its work. But all parties, If continued in power, becdme corrupt and both the great parties are now, in their different modes of action, fostering and supporting the monopolies. Our purpose is to build a machine that will bring about as gratifying a change as did the Republican party. It is time tor a new party, and its organization is our object'*

Fwek. Kinney: You tee that fellow over there? Three years ago he was writing poetry for a weekly paper. After that he drifted down to Philadelphia and Wrote sporting editorials; and then he waa engaged as humorous editor on a religious weekly, Ginter: What is he doing now? Kinney: Don't you see? He is smoking a cigarette. Why Behring .ie G< od The finest furs come from those an - male that inhabit the coldest climates and the season of the year in which any of them are killed greatly influeooes the qu .lity of the fur, a'summer •kin of some of these animals being comparatively valueless, however excellent it might be in the winter season.