Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1905 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

\Vjssia has nerve. She can talk bigger after a licking than any nation on earth. However, it Is hardly a “square deal” to the lid to go away and leave Taft sitting on it. If Castro keeps lifting the lid to that little asphalt pot lie’ll fall in and scaid himself to death. Washington city hasn’t even the excitement of a horse race now to keep it from going asleep. „ The beef trust is about to receive another indictment. But will the beef trust take notice of it? Mrs. Chadwick will always regret that she never had the pleasure of meeting James Ilazen Hyde. The farmers have had to pay high prices for their flour, but they got good money for their wheat. ' Taft must have put his whole weight on the lid of the Venezuela affair. Not even a squeal is heard. Japan accepted “friendly offices” ones and was robbed of Port Arthur. She wants no more of them. When Secretary Taft sits on a monop-* oly it is never likely to look so plump and symmetrical afterward. Nevertheless, young Hyde is evidently a disappointment to those who supposed that he would quit under fire.