Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-04-30
Des Moines Correspondence.

two or three weeks and adJourning.
Less than half the pages of the code
have been considered and the re-
vision completed but the balance
can be Jumped together and left as it
is, just as the whole thing might
have been only for the desire of the
members to get their fingers into the
state treasury to the tune of Sc day
each. The fact of the matter is, there
should not have been phrase nor a
word changed in the code at this
time. II the laws needed recompiling,
that could have been done in very
few days at comparatively small ex-
pense and no extra session would
have been required, but to overhaul
and change all the laws and knock
out all previous court decisions and
then come out with worse laws than
we had befone with the state $3.50, 900
deeper in debt as consequence, is a
shame and scandal for which the
present administration should have
to suffer everlasting condemnation.
The committee that was appointed
to recompile the laws should be i'm
prisoned for life for having presumed
to surreptitiously make any changes
and the thousands of dollars, worse
than thrown away in paying them
for their services, should be recover
to the state at the point of the law.
The people of Iowa are being shame
fully imposed upon and should de-
mand, in stentorian tones, cessa-
ton, restitution and relief. If the
end be near the people are glad and
will be still more so when the time
actually arrives.
Some of the legislators and attaches
took half day off last Saturday and
engaged in game of base ball, but
their So day salary went on just the
same. Our six cent corn raisers will
no doubt be glad to know they are
paying $1,400 day to keep up a
base ball game.
Ever since it is clearly demonstrate
ed that the state can edit, ano tate
and print the new code at a profit of
several thousand dollars there are
members who insist upon turning the
job over to Emlin McClain in order
to let him continue to rob the state
and it's people in the future as he has
been able to do in the past, but there
seems to be enough members of the
other opinion to insure the
right thing in this instance. The
tear is, however, that too much rope
will be given the editor and he may
follow the example set by the black
code commission and proceed to
make changes in the laws such as
will prove fatal to the interests of
the people. He should be given to
understand that a change of single
word or punctuation mark will SUBJ
ject him to lifetime imprisonment. If,
after all this changing and re-chang-
ing our $50 So per day solons have
not been able to frame the laws in an
Ineligible and grammatical shape
then let us worry along with I'M
grammatical laws until the people
have an opportunity to elect an
assembly capable of doing the work
right.
Was ever party placed in a more
hypocritical position than is the re-
publican party of Iowa in relation to
the whisky question? A few years ago
it was uncompromisingly for teetotal
prohibition and everybody that did
not adopt that theory was branded
as thug and disreputable repro
bate. Seeing public sentiment going
against it the leaders of the party,
with an eye single to the matter of
party supremacy and pie, declared
there should be no backward step,
the prohibition law must be retained,
but they proceed to give us saloons
just the same, and now grant the
privilege to make the stuff right here
on Iowa soil, and we are still living
under a strict prohibitory law. But
do not criticise them too harshly,
they had their party to save.
| The Mt. Pleasant Free Press says
Hon. D. P. Stubs, of that city, is
just the man the silver forces are
looking for to run for governor, and
the Free-Press may be more than
half right, as Mr.. Stubs is trusty
old guard in the reform cause and il
fully qualified for the position.
Paul Mates says he will commence
to arrange for the starting of brew.
cry in East Des Moines just as soon
the assembly gets the amendment
settled. He will put in only about
$50, 600 at first, but if let run will grad.
ually enlarge and supply the state.
John Weber will also start his Sc.
vastopol brewery, which is one of the
largest in the state. He will have ii
in operation 80 days after the final
passage of the act.
The silver daily talk has been re.
vived again, and it is now claimed
that the silver members of the legis.
lature are formulating plans to start
daily in Des Moines in time to fight
the approaching campaign. The re.
port is to the effect that the Lyons
Daily Advertiser will be moved to
Des Moineb, type setting machines
: and rapid presses added and compe.
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