The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-25

to snim at protection is outside OF the
republican party.
"A Keokuk county farmers sale
bills announce that he is intending to
go to Missouri. and they also adver-
tise 1900 bushels of seed oats" Why
any man who succeeded in raising 300
bushels of seed" oats this year in
Iowa should remove to Missouri is be-
yond the guessing" powers of The
Delta Enterprise,
The total rain fall in Mahaska
county for August, as reported by the
Weather Bureau was 7.57 inches. The
greatest rainfall in any locality in the
state is reported from Columbus juno
ton, where 1874 inches fell. The
mean maximum temperature for the
month was 1871 and the minimum 1917.
The average for the past Is years has
been 7O7 and 69.2.
"A vote for a democratic congress-
man is vote for the continuation of
the trust evil, no matter what the
ideas of the candidate are on the SUBJ
ject. A democratic congressman's
first idea is to wreck the protective
policy, which might or might not kill
trusts but it certainly would bury ey4
cry legitimate enterprise almost be-
yond hope of resurrection. 35th1
--Over in Illinois the question of
whether obscene matter taken from
the Bible is privileged over other OBJ
scene matter bids fair to be settled in
court. The editor of the Assumption
QH.) Independent has started in TO
publish the bible verbatim as a serial
and a subscriber threatens him with
prosecution because some portions are
unfit to put in public print.
The democratic party proceeds on
the principle that people never learn
anything by experience, but that they
can be fooled again and again. There
is an old saying in the country that
"The burnt child breads the fire"
There are some of us who still bear
the scars OF the burning we got in the
democratic days of '93 and we don't
want any more democratic fire like
that.
If you have not horse and buggy
or carriage and two, it will pay you
to walk down the Iowa Central half
way to Beacon and see the patent
grader at work on the new G. B. & @.
extension. 1t is operated by sixteen
horses and fllls wagon faster than
we can tell you about it. The ma
chine is something new in this section
and it's operation is a sight worth go
ing to see.
Council Bluffs Nonpariel: Though
there must be regret in the loss OF
Speaker Henderson from the republi-
can fighting line, it is likely that a
greater goou will come out of his with
drawal after all in clearer under
standing as to their attitude upon the
tariff. His refusal to be a candidate
for reelection came as a surprise and
shock, but sometimes a thunder
clap and little lightning display are
necessary to clear up the atmosphere.
The fellow who said man wants
but little here below" will have to go
away back" and so forth. The Union
says abba needs so more resi-
dences "'for rent" before January 1st.
She needs better side walks, she needs
the weeds cut and the streets leveled
by the grader. She needs power OF
good work done by the Business Mems
Association toward getting factories
| and getting a new Central depot and
all that. We are not doing enough"
The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF
| Odd Fellows at it's meeting in Des
Moines repealed that amendment to
the constitution of the order admitting
to membership persons of mixed white
and indian blood. The vote was lac
to 36. The grand representatives from
Indian Territory pleaded with the Sow
ereign Grand lodge not to take this
action, but vainly. The new law does
not affect those of mixed blood who
are already members of the order.
The Washington Press says witt
confidence born of knowledge thai
congress will not disturb the tariff anc
should not. "If they begin to riI
there's no telling where the ravelins
will STOP" TO open the whole scheme
would do definitely more harm to th'
industries of the country than good
mo man of sense wants the who'll
web or fabric of protection to be pull
ed, poked, Jared, and set in violen
vibration. That would be evil" Th'
Press concludes that congress will b.
very slow to tackle the buzz-saw. 4
According to statement Just Is
sued by the bureau of statistics OF tn
treasury department the public deb
of the United States is now $1297 pc
capita. This is near the lowest poin
reached in recent years, and is lowe
than the debt per capita at the begir
ming of the nineteenth century. Dul
ing the long period before the civ
war, however, the debt was almos
; wiped out 1t is figured at 21 cent
per capita in 1849, after which ther
was an increase to $2,67 in 1852. TIL
highest point was reached in 1861
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