Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — The Sad Louisiana Purchase. [ARTICLE]

The Sad Louisiana Purchase.

Added to the 115,000,000 paid France for Louisiana, there were over 112,000,000 in interest and allowed claims. Then reckoning the cost of the Indian wars, because of that purchase, at merely $500,000,000. and we have a grand total of of $527,000,000. What a consummate blockhead the antiPhillippine purchasers must rate Thomas Jefferson. How can these antis even codstnt to reside longer in the land of the great original Thomas J.Jook and governed the purchased -territory' the consent of the governed? What an outrage! '