Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-28
Affairs of National Interest Now
Uppermost at the
Capital.
CRAVE CONFERENCES AT WHITE HOUSE,
The President Adhercs to His Nom
committnl Course-Industrinl De-
preston becoming More Marked
Forbidden Topics Among Rcpub-
Iicnns-StIli the War Tax.
lsnecial Correspondence

will be reelected.
The masses of the people, especially
those working for daily wages, know
that they have no interests in COM
mon with the Vanderbilts and Rookie
fellers. Because the latter want Nc
Kinley retained in power, the COM
mon, everyday people are pinning
their faith the more steadily to Bry-
an.
Depew with great rhetorical flour
ish tells what world power the
United States has become and how
the European nations now speculate
on it's policy. where they formerly ig.
nored it.
Depew is wrong. The United States
has always been world power since
it won its independence from the
mother country. II European nations
are now paying more attention to it's
foreign policy it is because this adj
-ministration has placed it in the class
of nations who keep standing armies
and subjugate weaker people for the
sake of holding colonial possessions.
Each one wonders how it can use the
United States to further its own
schemes.
The president is staying at the
white house very steadily of late. He
concluded that 1t would not be good
politics for him to attend the 6. A. R..
reunion at Chicago. The old soldiers
were offended. They wanted Com
rade Mckinley TO explain to them his
new policy Of Imperialism and mil
itarisnd. Bryan told them he was
l-wflling to trust the fortunes of the
country to brave volunteer citizens
who would always be as ready for
duty in time of danger as the veter-
ans were from 1860 to 1865.
Sarcasm Upon Fact.
1.-THE full dinner pail' might be an
attractive oompaign slogan for, the
republicans, If it were not such a
sarcasm upon fact.
The industrial depression that has
been creeping upon the country for
months is becoming more marked
every day. Through Pennsylvania
and Ohio especially, there is grow
ing record of big manufacturing
plants shut down indefinitely"
Only the man dependent upon daily
wages for living understands the
| full force of that menace. 1t means
an empty dinner pail to thousands
Then, too, even the tin of which thu
dinner pail is composed costs more
than it did four years ago on accoun
of trust prices. Hardly an article O.
food that goes into the dinner pal
but what is affected by trust prices
The sugar, coffee. meat. crackers
salt and even cakes are all bought al
trust prices, and instead of full
dinner pail, many a wage worker
carries a very light one. The ad
vances in wages in some trades b,
no means compensates for the ad
vance in prices which seems necessar
for trust prosperity.
The administration keeps prett
fully informed of industrial cond
tons and grave conferences are hel
, at the white house daily to decid
!, whether a business scare might no
be better campaign argument tina
that of prosperity.
If the administration desires it th
trusts can easily manage genera
closing down of their plants for
month or six weeks before election
They can declare that the mere pc
sibility of Bryan's election has pa
alyzed trade.
J, The trusts are the more willing
i do this because nearly all have lars
o stocks of manufactured goods u,
sold. Prices have been put so hie
o that consumption has fallen off.
= few weeks idleness would serve
unload the accumulated stocks al
it would be an economy to dispen
with the weekly pay roll while tt
: workmen were being starved into VIC
] ing for another four years of tru
j control.
i. There is-anh with good reason
; some doubt whether the wage wor
r ers will not hold out against such
= plan and vote for Bryan all the me
stubbornly, believing that unless
is elected now their chances of ,
, sisting the trusts will be still less
u the future than at present.
" Keeping the People Guessing.
q McKinley's letter of acceptance 81
IS tarries. If prosperity" and inn
rialism are both forbidden topics a
the free silver bogy fails to sea
anybody, it is difficult to see up
n what ground the republicans can q
- the votes of the people.
! Affairs in China are causing al
= iety. 1t looks bit peculiar for
u the American commander at Peki
m The latest rumor is not encour
G. ing. 1t indicates that the Chin
~ have gathered in force and are
sieging the foreign troops in Peki
10 This is an extremely dangerous st
~ of affairs. 1t is said also that
- European nations have fatty
ie formed the United States that t.
g intend to grab territory in China
G. that this country is expected to
SIS with them.
ne The stories of our troopA loot!
It. the treasures of Picking and alta
at ing the natives in the streets Sol
he very much like warfare in its IN
N repulsive form. The administered
m seems to have no idea except to d.
= along and keep the people in iasn
ance just as it did in the Philip p
"a campaign.
n There is a strong popular fed.
sa that if the administration has u