Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-24
BUT ONE WAY TO DO 1T.
The War Fostering Administration
shUuld he Driven from
Power.

Are the American people weary OF
war? Have they had enough yet OF
the extra penny on the telegram and
the bank check, the multitudinous,
eNactions-falling not at all on the
corporations lightly on the very rich
and most GENEROUSLY on the people of
slender means-which go to make up
the war tax?
Are they sick of the daily bulletins
of the dead and crazed sacrificed in
Luzon to keep down an insurrecton
officially reported as suppressed a
year ago? Do they count the cost of
the Philippine experiment and con-
slider what S10o,00O,000 a year could
do here at home, expended in irriga-
ton to make the western deserts bios
som like the rose, employed to estab-
lish government telegraphs, a parcels
post, a great national university, a
ship canal from the lakes to the sea,
a government railroad which would
act as a check to the eXtortions of the
privately owned monopolies?
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weary, if they are thus questioning,
they are ready to consider the yelled
menace in this utterance by Col. Dick,
Hanna's campaign manager, and one
of the men who is growing rich from
the piclsings of the Mckinley admin
istration:
"The status in China is very threat
ening, and events there may change
the whole political situation here.
suppose on one denies that this gov
eminent ought to protect Americans
in China, and if in doing so we should
be brought into war with China or
any other power there would be but
one party in this country as long as
the trouble lasted, and that would be
the administration party"
There stands out the wish that is
father to the thought. With what
zeal will Hanna and Dick and Brother
Abner and Neeley and the rest of the
vultures that fatten on the fruits of
McKinleyism rush to the defense of
Americans in China if by so doing
they will hold the profitable control
of government for years to come.
Protect Americans in China? o.
course, and Americans everywhere
else as well. But a president who has
rushed us into a long, costly and
bloody war in the Philippines with
out the consent and scarcely with the
knowledge of congress cannot be
trusted to cope with this Chinese
situation alone, when his own close
advisers admit that his personal polit-
ical interests would be greatly ad
vanced by war.
The country stands to-day at {
point more critical than any it ha'
occupied since 1861. A lingering wal
in the Philippines saps its strength
Its soldiers and sailors are envelopet
in the storm and the intrigue of the
colossal Chinese field of battle. Al
Washington is mercenary, imperial
istic government. which has proftec
vastly already. politically and finan
| cially, by one war, and which
sees in a second and greater one
hope of indefinite continuance il
power. With true imperialisti'
self-assertion, the president refuse
to call congress together, and an,
day Americans may find that tn
intrigues or the incompetence of {
gang of scheming politicians hav
dragged this nation into war witt
half of Europe
What is the defense of the people
First, compel the president to cal
congress in extra session.
Second, drive an administratio,
which can't be trusted from power IL
MISUNDERSTANDING J. Abbot, in Chica
go American.