Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

Would that cotton had the cinch that wheat now has!—Atlanta Constitution. Every time a “scorcher” is arrested and fined a good deed is done for cycling.— New York Tribune. The best time for a public official to deny an interview is before he submits to it. —Chicago Times-Herald. If wheat keeps climbing, the Western farmers will have sixteen dollars this year where they had one last. —Atlanta Journal. The engineers* strike in England is spreading, but no judge has yet ventured to enjoin it or any part of it. How unprogressive they are over there! —Springfield Republican. A West Virginia lawyer says Judge Jackson’s injunction against the striking miners is merely a scarecrow. Viewed even in this light, it is not a striking success.—Boston Transcript. The adventurers who at Juneau have decided to turn back and wait for spring may have weaker hearts than their companlbns who go on, but it looks as if they had stronger brains.—San Francisco Cail,