Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-05-22
Editorial Notes.

noV General hnOX anu the luoaG PACK
ers who illegally entered the beef
trust, but Mr.. Knox would not see
them as he did not care to temporize
with law breakers under trial.
Frank G Carpenter, the well known
correspondent, says: 'the majority
of statements of cruelty by our troops
is false, and under the provocations
which the men have suffered it is a
wonder they are so temperate.
Last week ex-Speaker Reed sat in
the Supreme court at Washington lis
tening to the delivery Of an opinion
in which the sentiments expressed so
pleased the big Maine man taat he
clapped his hands in approval. The
sound of his own hands within those
sacred precincts made him realize
that applause was out Of place and he
looked very crest-fallen.
Secretary Shaw has issued regula-
tions for the inspection of baggage
in response to petition protesting
against the way the law was enforced.
All who desire private examination
of their effects may have it whenever
the steamship companies provide
suitable place. Several of the COM
panies have promised to make this
provision.
Lewis Nixon recently remarked
that the democratic factions are COM
ing together, and to the appropriated
observer it looks as if they are COM
ing together-head on.
Lord Kelvin, who recently looked
on Niagara Falls, said: Beautiful
as that wonderful work Of nature is,
it would be more beautiful still if
those waters fell upon turbine wheels,
every one of which was turning the
wheels of industry
General strikes throughout the
country have been largely averted
this year by increases in the wage
scales. Work is plentiful and both
sides can afford to make concessions.
The answer filed by the railway
merger shows that freight rates have
been reduced since the formation OF
the Northern Securities Company and
that the economy in management is
necessary to enable American roads
to compete with the Canadian railway
in it's through water route to the
Orient. The contest is for world
trad rather than for that of this
country.
News of the Spanish coronation is
crowding that from England. 1t is
reported that young King Alfonso
will wear fifty-two different uniforms
during his coronation week.
The progress in ocean steamship
construction IN the past sixty years
has increased the length Of the typi-
cal steamer from 215 to 7O6 feet;
depth from "a to 40 feet; beam, or
width, from "a to Is feet; displace-
ment from l ZOO to 37,700 tons; en-
gines from TAO to 81, 900 horsepower,
and the passenger capacity from 80
to 1900 persons.
The alleged Filipino cruelties are
no worse than the outrages perpe-
trated in North Carolina in 1898, un-
der democratic auspices, in the in
famous 'red-shirt'' campaign to scare
the negroes into voting with the DEM
ocrats. Congressional investigation
proved this in both instances.
Anent the discussion of the ''Adam
and Eve myth there is considerable
difference between saying the story
Genesis is a ''myth' and that it is
"false." Some of the most mytho-
logical statements contain the deepest
of human truths.
John Hendrick Bangs, humorist,
has proved himself able, like Mark
Twain, to be serious under the right
inspiration. In his new book, "Uncle
Sam, Guardian" he tells of the occu-
pancy of Cuba, "Uncle Sam found
Cuba unhealthy and leaves her
healthy; found her without charities
and hospitals and leaves her with
well-established system; found her
without schools and leaves her with
good school laws and principles;
found beggars and an empty treasury;
leaves the island without beggars and
with a reserve of 81, 500, 900.
The carpet-bagger. for the first time
in history has been held in Subiac-