Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

F. A. Druehl of Salt Lake City—Americans will soon own Mexico. Not only are Americans and American money going in there freely, but an American suburb is being completed in the eastern part of the City of Mexico near the Chapultepec cas--1 tie. The residences are of American architecture, nnd the streets and everything else there is of the same national stamp, so the Yankee visitor feels quite at home. Senntor Mnrk Hanna —Great man, J. P. Morgan. No telling where he’ll step. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he Was getting up a syndicate to buy the British empire next. It isn’t safe as long as he’s over there. From what I hear, j the British are on to that, too, and they I are keeping pretty close watch on him. Must be scared to do that. I tell you, I Morgan’s a grept man. Charles S. DeHart of Carthage, Ill.— The building in which Joseph and Hyrum Smith met their fnte at Carthage still | exists. But it is no longer a jail. It is 1 used as a private residence by an old I couple who are very accommodating to I visitors who call to sec the interesting relic. The bullet holes still remain in the door of the room where the two unfor- , tunate men were confined, and it is claimed blood stains can yet be traced in the flooring. , Henry H. Eliel of Minneapolis, after a trip to the South—l think this tea growing experiment in South Carolina will l prove the opening wedge to a new and great industry in the South. The affair has gone beyond the experimental stage. The tea grown there is superior to any Japanese tea I ever drank, and as good os the better qualities of China tea. Col. • Sheppcrd employs colored people. He pavs them fair wages for picking the tea, 1 anil also looks after their keeping and education. Rev. G. H. Tower of Milwaukee—The time has come when it is no longer necI essary for a woman to marry a man solely to obtain his support. When a woman marries she can do so as nn independent being, from the noblest and purest mO- * tives. I am glad that women are finding places in offices nnd are placing themselves in positions where they do not depend upon any man for bread and butter. When women nre pleasure loving, foolish and frivolous it tends to make them man's slave. ChaFjts H. Ailen, Governor of Porto Rico— Civil government is established in Porto Rico. Much haa been accomplished and every day marka progress. If the people can be relieved of their agitators I nnd allowed to work out their own salraitlon. and American capital, with the ■thrift and energy which follow it, be dlgrected toward Porto Rico with the assur- | ance that it will be welcome and given 1 adequate protection, then Indeed will J come prosperity and development which I every American citizen hopes for and evI ary dweller under the American flag.