Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-15
REPUBLICAN.
Partisan Blindness and Folly.

1ue mdu WHO mas COnVlCGlOnS upon
questions of public policy is placed in
strange condition by the avowed pol
icy OF the democratic and the repub-
lican parties, both of which are in
hearty accord with the policy of con-
lining the money of the people to
gold and to paper based upon bonds,
exempt from taxation, the interest and
principal being debt upon the
shoulders of labor and productive in
dustry, Their policy is, less money
and more misery, for the people. No
man who favors better times and more
money can consistently cast ballot
for either Babb or Drake because in
SO doing he endorses the humiliation
OF silver as a money metal at any
ratio, and in favor of turning over TO
the-g:eat banking corporations one of
the sovereign rights, duties and powers
confided by the constitution solely to
congress. This power was thus given
to congress to be exercised in the iu-
terest OF all the people, but instead of
being thus used the congress has
granted to corporations the right to
issue the money of the country and to
control the quantity the people may
have. This power places labor and
an its products, property :Severy
species and business of all Kinds under
the exclusive control of a class of men
who owe no responsibility to the pub
lie which interferes with the profits of
their vocation and business. A ballot
cast for either Babb or Drake is au in
dorsement of this false theory and
rulnous policy. On the question of
the liquor traffic the democratic and
republican parties are likewise in
happy accord both favoring a license,
one under petition that shall en-
brace a majority of the legal voters.
OF the country the other upon con-
sent petition that embraces Is per
ceet of the legal voters,
the principle in both being the same
and only differing in details. When
Senator Allison was brought before
the republican national convention for
the Presidency, the political leaders
OF New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
served notice upon his supporters that
Iowa, before it could have a presi-
Dental candidate by the republican
convention, must put itself on record
In favor of the liquor traffic the same
as these great states were by a system
OF license to the saloon. With a pres.
ldent from Iowa cabinet positions and
Ofhces galore would loom up before
the trading and traflcking politicians
OF the state and Immediately like
gudgeons they swallow this tempting
bait. The State Register, the Bur-
lington Hawkeye, the Council Bluffs
Nonpereil, the Sioux City journal,
IN fact every daily of the state except
John Mahins Muscatine journal, right
about faced, and ever since have been
as much in favor of license as the de-
mocrats only differing in the details
not in principle. Men who honestly
favor prohibitory legislation may vote
Tor the democratic state ticket as con-
slstently as for the republican, as both
are in favor of license, one believing
1t the best means of regulating the
traffic, the other as the readiest means
OF acquiring political promotion. No
honest prohibitionist can any more
consistently vote the republican than
the democratic ticket, both parties be-
ing pledged by their resolutions or
their cnactments, of which the mulct
law is evidence against the republic
cans, in favor of a license regulation,
instead of prohibition.