Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-26

resume of these observations, COM
piled by Fir. Algne, S. j., has just
been published by the war depart
ment.
That representative of King
Melenek who came to this country
to find an expert to run the national
mint has discovered that there are
nearly 400 persons who are quail
fed by experience to make and
shove the queer.
People who are clamoring for a
revision of the present tariff should
reflect that thirteen Of the leading
nations of the world protested
against the present tariff when it
was adopted in 1897, yet from 1898
to 1902, there has been an increase
in our total imports from those
countries of $1O8, 100000 or about
Is per ceet.
Fifty-three foreign nations have
accepted the invitation to make ex-
hibits at the Saint Louis exposition.
Forty-two countries having ap-
propriated sums aggregating &c.
339, $50 to defray the expenses of
their exhibits. Eleven countries
which have accepted the invitation
to exhibit have not made their
appropriations and fourteen coun-
tries are still to be heard from.
It is estimated that half a million
people in New York city are awake
and engaged, legitimately or other
wise, all night long.
There are some influential and
experienced republican statesmen
who believe that a session of
congress to be called early in
October, to be followed by a recess
of two weeks at the time Of the
election, and then continued until
the first Monday in December,
would be advantageous.
Anti-expansionists can find food
for reflection in the fact that dur
ing the fiscal year just ended the
commerce of the United States
with its non-contiguous territory
amounted to over 800, 100000.
This includes 100000 worth of
gold bullion shipped from Alaska,
but commerce in merchandise alone
amounted to 800, SIS, 000
A French feminine writer sug-
gests that every couple before mas
rage should be compelled to insure
the future of their children at a
rate of not less than 1 cent a day.
The lady fails to suggest for how
many children the couple should
insure.
After all, the race suicide to which
President Roosevelt objects is not
reasonable limit on the families
Of the poor but the unreasonable
limit placed on families of the rich
and comfortably off. The lone
pampered darling of the man whose
income could easily furnish educa-
tional and other advantages to
seven or eight children, and the
two children Of the man who could
easily afford to raise and educate
four, constitute menace to the
future of this country.
Those people who assume that
the rejection of the Panama canal
treaty by the Colombian senate
means the absolute defeat Of the
convention have not given sufficient
study to the Colombian constitu-
ton. In Colombia the senate is
no more powerful that the house
and:it may be compelled to recon
slider its vote.
The united kingdom purchases 81
per cent, of the packing house
products of the United States.
There are conflicting opinions
regarding the rejection of the
Panama canal treaty by the Col
ombian senate, but those who have
studied Colombia's constitution
most carefully declare the action
is not final
The effort to manoeuvre fleet
of war ships in the comparatively
narrow Long Island Sound re-
suited in the ramming of one of
the torpedo destroyers.
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