Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

YOUR FATHER. Farm Value of Corn. Department of Agricnlttire’s Figure., Year. Amount. 1895. $709,875,731 ) n 1898. 513,871,912 ( 1899. 711,784,297 ) w 1900. 859,810,000 ) K * p ' WHICH? WHEN? WHY? WHAT? Suppose we do make the Filipinos independent: are we also going to make the Macabebes independent? Are we going to make the Moros independent? To establish a Viscayan government and a Sulu republic? How about the Negritoes and the seventy or eighty different tribes that speak different languages? Are we to establish an independent government for each? We must do one of two things. We must either establish from seventy to eighty independent republics or else impose the government of one tribe on all. As such a number of independent republics is an impractical proposition, are we to impose a Tagalog government on the Macabebes? a Moro government on the Viscayans? a Sulu government the Negritoes, and so on? If we are to impose one government on another, is it not better that we know beforehand what it is to be —in other words, try our own government?

WHERE RORERCUSH PAPERS STARO * / Ninety-two of the leading papers published in foreign languages, in the United States, show their presidential preferences as follows: Rep. Dem. Ind. German 16 12 3 Scandinavian ••• • 9 • • lft 2 Italian 7 2 2 French 2 ... 1 Bohemian 3 5 1 Polish 3 4 Jewish 2^ Slavonic 2 1 1 Dutch .............a 1 mi .. Swiss 2 .« .. Totals 58 26 8