Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-14
Editorial Notes.

the polls in order to wean it from
it's free silver folly-and the repub-
hcan party is ready to administer
that rebuke.
Senator CullOm, of Illinois, paid a
recent visit to Washington. and
while there impressed upon his
friends that the two questions fore
most in the minds of the voters of
his state are Cuban reciprocity and
tariff revision.
The American Shipbuilding Co.,
of Chicago, announces that the vari-
GUS yards of the company are filled
to overf1owing with orders for work.
Twenty-nine orders for modern steel
steamers have been received, aggre-
eating a money value of nearly
$4,000 900.
Minister WI will undoubtedly re-
main in Washington until next year
on account Of important duties con-
nected with the State Department
in connection with the payment of
the Chinese indemnity.
Twelve per cent of the manufac-
lures Of the United States are pro-,
duced by trusts and against one of
those the administrator is conduct
ing a suit with every prospect of
success. The actual figures make
democratic agitation look insignif-
can't
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad have advanced the pay
of 5000 of their men from 5 to Is
per cent, which is additional evil
dence Of republican prosperity.
1t has been given out that Powell
Clayton, Ambassador to Mexico,
denied to the State Department that
he owned any stock in Mexican
mines, but the facts made known
by an official letter from him ex-
plain that he took charge of some
stock belonging to female rela-
tive, for it's better protection, that
to do so properly he had to become
a director of the company, and to
become a director had to become
personally owner of a few shares.
When the American machinist
concludes that he would rather work
for $1.46 per day, the wages paid
machinists in Glasgow, than for
1925 per day, the wages paid ma
chinists in New York, he will cast
his vote for democracy and free
trade.
The Water Motor & Power Com
pany, with a capital stock of one
million dollars, will soon begin the
erection of an extensive powet plant
at Great Falls, on the Virginia side
of the Potomac, about eighteen
miles above Washington. 1t ex-
poets to supply practically all Of the
Il.
The newest thing in ordnance is a
shell that does not explode until it's
Preventative ability has been ex-
hausted," or until it has reached it's
final destination. It's penetrative
power is said to equal IA inches of
Krupp armor, two inches thicker
than that used on any battleship in
the world.
A vote cast for the republican
party is vote cast for q known
policy and one that has proven its
wisdom A vote cast for the dem
Ocratic party is a leap in the dark
and an endorsement of a policy no
one can define.
The Weather Bureau reports that
devastating rains have caused floods
in many sections while crops are
burning up in others. The corn
crop has, perhaps, been the greatest
sufferer, but the chances are there
will be more than an average crop.
Peaches are said to be plenty, Con-
necticut alone furnishing 900, ZOO
baskets.
The Iowa State convention de-
cided for Roosevelt for President in
1904, and in favor of tariff revision
to the extent of reduction of the
tariff on those products handled and
controlled by trusts.