Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1899 — Afraid the Carp Will Be Overworked. [ARTICLE]

Afraid the Carp Will Be Overworked.

Morocco Courier. In an article which appeared in last week’s issue of the Rensselaer Republican, one Lewis E. Alter expresses the opinion the carp fish in the Kankakee river will in time effectually solve the problem with regard to the reclamation of the swamp lands adjacent to that stream. Mr. Alter insists that carp are great rooters and believes that in course of a lew years they will deepen the river sufficiently to carry off all the surplus water, causing, as a natural consequence, the country to blossom like the proverbial rose, and the mnd squak and hell-diver to seek a clime more congenial to their health. Not being interested in Kankakee swamp lands to any great extent, we are naturally somewhat backward about offering advice in the matter. It looks like a low-down mean trick, however, to compel the carp to dredge out almost the entire northern part of the state, deuced if it don’t. Carp are willin’ cusses and will frequently work overtime on half pay, but this scheme of Mr. Alter’s smacks strongly of an attempt at wholesale oppression simply because of their nationality. We think that carp should at least be provided with metallic prods to fit over the nose and buckle back behind the ears, in order to aid them in the arduous work Deluxe them, in fact until some arrangement of that kind is made we may be put down as being fernents the proposition.

The legislature of Indiana convened 'Thursday morning at ten o'clock with about all the members and every ofljce-seeker present. The work of organization was gone through with according to precedent and today the bodies will commence the active work among which will be the election of a k>V<AWO UUwUIUi. .A.AA I message as delivered Gov. Mount reviewed the needs of the state and made recommendations as to the duties of the law makers. He pre sents a powerful argument in favor of a general reform of county and township management. Good roads are touched in a favorable light as is the introduction of the qpience of agriculture in the schools. Lynching and trusts he treats as kindred subjects inasmuch as both break the laws. They receive equal condemnation. The whole message is loaded with wise, statesmanlike and humane suggestions, as might be expected from our eminently level headed and noble hearted governor, than whom no state now has a better, unless it is New York with famous Teddy Roosevelt. About a year or two ago one Sheldon Cronk, a not altogether admirable individual, talked a good deal of the persons he would have indicted at the next grand jury. Well, Sheldon went before that body, andon his own story, he was indicted himself and no one else. A similar circumstance has evidently occurred at the present term of court. The Rensselaer Democrat has long been talking of great things that would, happen when the grand jury got to grinding, but the Democrat editor appears to have been able to get no one but himself indicted.