Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.

Government revenue is fast over
taking expenditure without any
new taxes, The deficit is disap
pearing automatically. More Roose-
welt luck.
Secretary Taft says the Filipinoes
blame the administration for the
drought. That used to be the
populist cry.
Nebogatoff is free to go go home,
but he has been sentenced at home
to disgrace, and the best thing he
can do is to cut his native lard. Pe
surrendered his ship to the Japs,
when he could not save it, but
what does antocracy care for
thousand lives?
Mr.. Rockefeller says that it does
not pay to be good fellow. He
should know. The size Of his pie
indicates that the things Mr.. Rock
efeller ''has not done" have paid as
fully as things he has done"
Hyde, the agricultural statistician,
should not be COMPOUNDED with
Hyde, the insurancei statistician
These eminent disprovers OF the
statement that statistics cannot lie
were in different lines.
Cinnamon may know how to
make superior bombs, but they
would never make successful
anarchists as they cannot "grow
the whiskers" that go with the
trade.
It's just because Mr.. Cleveland's
arguments against woman suffrage
are mot worth replying to'' that
Miss Susan B. Anthony replies to
them at length.
Miss Tarbell is to address the
Knife and Fork Club of Kansas
City. She is a charter member f.
the AK and Hammer Club of
Cleveland, Ohio, which meets
across the street from John DIS
home.
Mr.. Addick's political auto seems
to have run away with him and
dumped him in the ditch.
some]Lof those typesetting ma
chinesNpersist in calling it railroad
rat" legislation.
The general opinion seems to be
that the Senate will pass some kind
of rate regulation measurement
probably the railroad kind"
Mr.. Jerome is being pictured by
the friendly newspapers as Daniel
in the Lions EDen; but to outside
eyes, he,looks more like Abednego
in the furnace.
Every man who travels in a Pull
man car and doesn't dodge the
porter knows something about the
menace Of 1.-THE Black Hand"
It is said that Mr.. Bryan's sup
Tort of Mr. Roosevelt on the ques-
ton of railway rates legislation,
will be used toI ALLEVIATE Republican
sympathy from the latter when the
subject is taken up in Congress.
But why should it have any effect9
Mr.. Bryan cannot go wrong all the
time.
II never get tired" says Mr..
Bryan, and he probably thinks
that the rest Of us never get tired;
but we do.
That Texas governor who ordered
out troops to prevent lynchlng,
does not seem to care whether he
gets another. term of Office or not
Mr.. Rockefeller should keep his
money separated, the tainted and
the untainted in different barrels.
Then he could make his donations
from the certified kegs and thus
avoid much trouble
Let us hope that Phila will not
turn the declaration of independ-
ence to the wall, and ask us to be-
gin reckoning time from the year
in which it 'won the baseball
penant.'
Just because he wanted to show
how easily it could be done, that
young forger robbed the New
York bank, and gave the directors
heartfailure and several other
plebeian diseases. The police caught
him just to show him how easily
that could be done also
Ordinarily my experience has
been that bears were not Hurried
when l suddenly came upon them"
says the president in a magazine
article. The bears probably failed
to recognize him in his hunting
costume.