Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-05-15
Editorial Notes.

There are fifty American school
houses in Porto Rico with a total at
tendance of 1900. The people are
exceedingly anxious to learn ana
there are no truant officers or penal
ties needed.
The national administration is to
be commended for the prompt way in
which it has decided to lay bare the
violation of the law by the beef trust
and to supply such remedies as can
be secured by the courts.
The workingmen's organizations of
New York will build veritable palace
for the use of their clubs, societies
and associations. This follows the
plan advocated by the late Sir Walter
Besant in many of his writings.
When the country knows the real
truth about the Filipinos' atrocities
the alleged cruelty of the American
soldiers will not only be condoned,
but there will be a general wonder
that the men have been so self-con-
tanned.
A firm in Massachusetts is making
the medals for the English coronation
exercises. According to the London
newspapers which decry the "Ameri-
can INVASION this is adding insult to
injury.
The officials of the St. Louis fair
have again exercised the rrerogative
of changing their minds and the Of
fetal announcement is now made that
the exposition will be postponed un-
til 1904.
The federal action on the illegal
combination OF the meat packers is
assurance not only that there has been
violation of the statutes but that the
present administration believes in
fair play for the consumer.
China is taking her place in civili-
cation if the official reports of the
enormous increase in the postal SER
vice count for anything. Mail expan-
sion is good sign, and one of the
most notable ones in this country also
at the present time.
According to Commissioner OF La
Dor Carroll d. Wright a conservative
estimate of the wealth of this country
is 500, 900, 100000. The total money
in the United States is So, 500, 900, 900,
or about $32 per capita, as against
$14 in 1860. The average amount due
each savings bank deposition in the
country is $4O9, and it is interesting
to note that the savings deposits alone
exceed the actual total of money and
is ample to cancel the entire debt OF
the federal government.
Strange as it may seem, some OF the
persons who want great distributing
,servoirs of water for irrigation are
opposed to stored up reservoirs OF
creative wealth ready to flow into the
channels of human achievement to
stimulate industrial growth.
The recent epidemic of burglaries
in the Getty of Brotherly Love" has
developed the fact astonishing at
first glance, that in almost every in
stance the burglary was committed in
the home OF Quaker. The reason
is simply that the members of the
Society of Friends will not own fire
arms and the willy burglar, who has a
wholesome dread of a shotgun, knows
this and takes advantage of it.
Col. William Jennings Bryan has
at last announced authoritatively that
he will not be democratic candidate
in 1904. And Miss Democracy is
thinking, Nobody asked you, sir, ;
she said.''
President Roosevelt has just ap-
pointed Thomas Mast, the cartoonist,
Consul General at Guayaquil, Equa-
dor. Mast was one of the first OF the
pictorial satirists of the country and
his work was of value to the republic
can party at the time of it's hardest
struggle. His picture of Boss Tweed
of New York, in which a likeness was
made by money bag with simple
dollar sign on it will always stand as
a marvel in ca4icature.
Several vessels have gone ashore on
Lake Superior and have been wrecked
during fogs at the same spot. Inves-