Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-01-08
Editorial Notes.

constitution, InQS an aln0uQln6HU
necessary.
The gentleman who masqueraded
as the governor ofKentuckey in Flor
da recently found no lack ''old Ken
tuckey bourbon at his disposal
Secretary Hay has again demon
strated his right to be known as the
greatest American diplomat.
There are growing indications that
Judge Alton B. Parker Of New York
will be the democratic choice for
the presidency.
It begins to look as though Ex-
President Cleveland though it was
time for the democracy to look
Princetonwards for a leader.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has offered
to endow a national theater in
Washington which, independent of
popular support, may work to up
lift the character of the modern dra-
ma.
In these days Of consolidation and
the purchase of majority interests
through brokers it requires an expert
to distinguish the Beet Sugar Trust
from the Sugar Trust.
A careful canvass of the democrats
in Congress reveals the fact that
seventeen distinct varieties of dem
ocrats are required for the next
presidential nominee.
Pre- ident Roosevelt bids fair to be
known as 1.-The great peace-maker."
First the coal strike and then the
Venezuelan difficulty
With republican majorities in both
houses of Congress there is reason to
believe that the numerous and IRA
tiOnal anti trust bills will be con-
densed and revised until one ration
al and businss like law shall have
been evolved.
The issue of $3O,OOO,OOO two per
cent bonds for the purpose of build
ing the Panama canal promises to
afford considerable relief to the
bankers who are experiencing SER
ious inconvenience because of the
scarcity of United States bonds.
Members Of Congress are doing a
great deal of talking about the ne
cessity for increasing their own sal
airy, now S., goo per year, but it is
doubtful if they will do more than
talk about it.
II move that it is the sense of. the
Senate that every democratic senator
is a gentleman said Senator Spoon
er jokingly, the other day. II OBJ
ject" shouted Senator Tillman, fol-
lowing his usual custom. 1.-THE OBJ
lection is we'll taken" remarked Sen
ator Frye.
What Northern enterprise has not
already accomplished for the South
Dr. Charles Warden Stiles hopes to
accomplish by science. He claims to
have discovered the germ of laziness
which produces the cracker" and
will disseminate information in re-
gard to it's diagnosis and treatment.
Big Bill Dewey pays taxes on a
million dollars worth of property.
In % years of police service his sal
airy only amounted to something less
than $50, 900 and it must have cost
him quite that much to live. Where
did he get the rest?
Persons familiar with the facts,
assert that the Castro administration
after bleeding the Venezuelan indus
tries to the point of bankruptcy, |
turned it's attention to the foreign
investors and proceeded to levy
blackmail, thus precipitating the
hostilities from which Venezuela is
now suffering.
A Grand Army veteran stood list
ening to a juvenile Spanish war vet
eran recounting his experiences to
an admiring group. Presently the
old man remarked. ''That young
man telling of his experiences makes
me think OF the hero of the Johns
town flood relating his experiences
in the presence of Noah.
The department ofAgriculture has
scored another victory, this time in
Florida. It's Weather Bureau gave