Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-02
Editorial Notes.

wipe out the trusts, raise wages IN
the coal mines and secure equal in
comes for the hustler and the lag
gard-but the president is too hon
est to promise the impossible and
the people respect him all the more
because he is.
Europeans have always laughed
at our overheated houses. IF our
foreign cousins will visit us while
the coal strike is on they will find
that we have reformed.
The Democratic Congressional
campaign committee is short of
money, short of speakers, short of
arguments and soon will be short of
votes.
Senator Platt has made public a
statement of his position in regard
to the endorsement of President
Roosevelt at the New York state
convention which does credit to the
senator and is compliment to Mr..
Roosevelt.
A sour old bachelor is looking for
town that has no ''Gibson girl" in
it. We fear the old fellow is doomed
to roam.
We hope G.. F. Williams, of Mass
achusetts and the Democratic party,
is not getting all that is coming to
him in the way of editorial and par
agraphing gibes. Everyone seems
to have tin can or rotten toma-
to to throw at the poor man.
Tammany Hall is in for some
choice English composition. The
gentlemen who will contend for the
prize in picturesque langridge are
"Sport" Murphy and big Bill''
Devery.
MarcOni has transmitted mess
age from Poldu, Cornwall, 20 the
italian cruiser Carlo Alberto in
Spezia harbor, Italy.
Democrats aver that to remove
the tariff is to abolish the trusts.
The casuistry of the proposition is
proven by the fact that anthracite
coal, the basis of one Of the most alb
solute monopolies in the country, is
on the free list.
A South Brooklyn real estate own
er has been robbed of a house. 1t
seems that the house was vacant
and the thieves took it to pieces and
carried it away in broad daylight.
Continued revolutions in Venezu-
ella, Columbia and other .~Outh
American republics demonstrate
that the lesson Of self government
is hard to learn. The Filipinos
should be grateful to the nation
which has undertaken to act as their
tutor.
When the cook gets drunk and
the children have the whooping
cough, it requires philosophy to tax 3
that rosy view of general prosperity
about which statistics are so blatant.
Anyone who imagines that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has lost sight OF Gu
ban reciprocity bids fair to be great
ly surprised when the president
reaches those districts whose repre-
sentatives opposed him during the
last session of Congress.
In spite of democratic anxiety to
s9e their fellowmen suffer privation
in order that the democratic party
may win at the polls, republican
prosperity will not down.
A strong man is bound to make
enemies and President Roosevelt is
no exception to the rule, but the
large majority of the American peo-
pie are loyal to him.
A convict named Peter Hernia had
a rupture with the prison authori-
ties at Hackensack, N. j.
Our old friend George Frod Will
liams of Massachusetts and the Bry-
ante party has suffered a slight set
back, but George is used to such
things by this time.
1t isn't polite to speak of the
hierarchial lights of the Catholic
church as Roman candles.
DON'T Judge a politician by the