Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-23
Editorial Notes.

Irregular habits and regular pay
are sworn enemies.
Was the earthquake in Guam
caused by the approach Of Gen. Miles?
Edward F. Shepard, Cookers ex-
candidate for mayor, says President
Roosevelt is demagogic and absurd"
Pipe to your lambs Shepard.
Debts are handicaps in the race
that are worn by those least able to
bear them.
Lincoln, Nebr.-W. H. Bryan In
tO-morrow's Commoner will say
Oh! Willie give us rest! You have
said it all before.
Organized charity is good thing,
SO is ice. The old saw has been
amended to read ''As cold as organ
1zed charity.
Mr.. Bryan is making speeches and
letting his hearers know, or guess,
what might have been had he been
elected President
A New Jersey police justice re-
Gently fined a young man $40 for
kissing his sweetheart in a public
park, and similar fine was collected
from the young lady. Jersey JUS
tice is peculiar.
The appeal of the democratic
party is along the same old lines, as
usual. When vi our brethren learn
to meet the de IDS of the day with
the philosophy he day.
''Plain living and clear thinking"
is an excellent rule of life. Clear
thinking, however, requires more
pains than some of us are willing to
take.
The Oil fields of Beaumont, Texas,
are burning again. Really, we know
Texas has oil to burn, but we had
hoped to get it up this way before it
got in contact with the fire.
1t is not true that Russell Sage will
import coal for the use Of the poor
or for public institutions, as Mr.
Morgan is doing Your Uncle Russell
believes charity begins at home.
Mr.. Heinze Of Montana is not re-
lated to Mr.. Heinze of 81 varieties
of pickle frame, but he is believed to
have 1877 yarities of rods in pickle for
Senator Clark.
John Markle lost his temper and
his good sense when he wanted the
power of the state used to stop a
game of foot ball between two bodies
of striking but peaceful miners.
Just about ten people disapproved
of President Roosevelt's action in
trying to settle the coal strike. They
have already expressed themselves,
but the rest of the voting population
will have their say later on.
Dom Paul Kruger presided at a re-
ligious meeting in Holland where a
purse of $500 was presented to the
Boer generals. Dom Paurs own con-
tribution IS not mentioned.
Tom Johnson has been raising the
wind forIsome time; now he proposes
to have what he calls "a whirlwind
campaign" Probably all Tom wants
anyway is dust.
Thes Commoner says: 1.-THE off
springI off two rabbits might in ten
years number 10000, OOO" So they
might, but the offspring of two fail
ures I'M Presidential aspiration will
never amount to the votes of a
majority of 70, 600, 900 people.
The striking anarchists in the coal
regions are posting placards and in
stancing what they call similar
state of thingslinsthe French revolu
ton. The French revolutionists were
willing to work for bread merely but
these Pennsylvania loafers will not
work for 81 per day and will not
permit others to work.
Westinghouse the place for Grand
Army reunions. 1t is the city they
protected, it isIthe city they made,
it is the city that embodies the idea
of a great, powerful, progressive,
free country. Washington belongs