Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-03

cant statement of the gradual reduc-
ton of the military forces in the Phil
ippines. In 1891 there was 10000
American troops in the islands. To-
day there are but $4,000 and orders
for the return of 5000 more have
been issued. No better evidence OF
the pacifcation of the islands could
be desired.
DR.. Garnault, a French scientist
and physician, has deliberately innoc-
ulated himself with the virus OF DO
vine tuberculosis in order to prove
the error of DR.. Koch's assertion that
the disease is communicable to men.
While President Roosevelt will
make an extended tour of the country
early in the fall, he will not indulge
in campaign oratory. He will, how
ever, appeal to the people to support
him in his contention for Cuban reci-
procity which he regards as involving
the national honor and as above partl-
san politics.
The University of Pennsylvania is
the recipient of handsome donation,
Joseph Wharton, founder of the
Wharton School Of Finance and Econ
omy, having added 100000 to the
endowment of that institution.
The insincerity of the democrats in
demanding lower tariff rates is DEM
onstrated by their luminous intention
of blocking the passage of the Cuban
reciprocity bill in the senate, had
they been given the opportunity.
Representative Loud of California
recently made an earnest plea for con-
sistency in raising the salaries Of gov
eminent employees. He maintained
that if the letter carriers were to re-
ceive 81, 200 per annum the railway
mail clerks ought to receive $1,000 in
stead of the average of $1,000 now
paid them.
Humane people should emphatically
protest to their senators and members
of congress against the passage OF a
bill which has been reported from the
House committee on Commerce. The
bill proposes to make it possible to
detain cattle in transit on the cars
without rest, food or water for forty
hours at station. The present law
limits this torture to % hours.
The Public Lands committees of
both the house and senate have re-
ported favorably on bill to make
national park of the territory which
includes the wonderful Wind Cave of
South Dakota.
The threat that Great Britain will
effect a reciprocity treaty with CUBA
falls rather flat in view Of the fact that
Great Britain has practically no tariff
duties from which to grant conces-
sions. She has duty on tobacco but
it is The duties on sugar which the
Cubans find most onerous.
The triumph of having initiated the
construction of the Isthmian canal
will belong to the fifty-seventh COR
gress, congress distinctively repub-
lican in both branches. By the terms
of the Spooner amendment, should
the Panama route prove impractl-
cable, operations will be Immediately
begun on the Nicaragua route.
The Salvador government has
passed law providing that any Sal
vador attorney who shall represent
an American in the courts of that
country shall be subjected to life i'm
prisonment. The sentiment which
prom pied that law is not likely to in
duce an influx of American capital.
The acrimonious sarcasm with
which democratic members of con-
gress received the recent speech OF
the Hon. Grover Cleveland was en-
tlrely in accordance with the Wanted
harmony of their party.
In the political speech which Repre-
H. al .nfo =
ed into the debate on the General De-
ficiency bill that gentlemen forgot to
mention the ''horrible" discloses of
one Captain Christmas investigation,
for which the gentleman from Tennes-
see stood sponsor.
The senate was surprised one day
recently at the receipt of communi-
cation from the White House SIGNED