Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-06-01
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

-Annexing peoples to the United
States who cannot have the rights
and privileges of American citizens Ii
imperial, un-American and, from thu
republican point Of view, absurd.-St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
When the administration soph
lists and grabbers shall have shown
that the constitution does not affect
any new territory acquired by the
United States, they will have Less
difficulty in showing that it does not
apply to any American territory
whatever.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
-Anti-trust leagues hold confer.
ences, listen to able speeches and adopt
resolutions declaring trusts, combines
and monopolies must CO." But the
republican congress continues to bind
tighter around the people the chains
of high protection, which fosters and
supports many trusts. = Nashville
American.
On the whole Secretary Hay
should resign. He is an unfit person
to be trusted with an American port
folio. The home Of such sentiments
as he possesses is on the other side
of the Atlantic. This will be the opin-
lon of all Americans Independent of
partisan feeling.-Memphis CONNER
cialAppeal.
Time was when the president OF
the United States was the head of the
government. Now the president
dances attendance to the British am
bassador, all on account of an over
production Of Hay in his cabinet.
And Mckinley was to have been-eur
great American Columbus
(0.1s Press-Post.
The first problem of empire"
which Mr.. Mckinley had to solve was
how to dealMith the Filipinos. Result:
unnecessary war that is still wag-
ing. The first problem of empire"
presented to congress was the Porto
Rican tariff question. Result: A pol
10y of commercial slavery for the Por-
to Ricans that makes them long for
the happy days" of Spanish rule. So
much so far for these servants who
are posing as masters in the household
Of the republic.-N. Y. World.
--Leaving out of consideration all
question as to the extent to which the
constitution should prevail over Amer
lean possessions, Porto Rico is entitled
tobettertreatment than the imposition
OF duty upon her products, under
whatever hair-splitting theory it is
sought to justify the act.-Boston
Globe.
The presidents message recon-
mending the appropriations of $685.
455.0s-the amount of tariff duties col
lected under the Dingley act on i'm
ports from Porto Rico since October
Is, 1s9s-and of future duties on such
imports to the expenses of the Porto
Rican government is in the nature of
public acknowledgment of the enor-
nifty of reckoning helpless people into
the United States with one hand and
shutting the door against them with
the other. The president'sh heart seems
to be all right; but he has lent his head
to the trusts.-Philadelphia Record.
The republicans are about to dis
cover that there is about as much
affinity between expansion and "pro-
lection" as there is between water and
oil.--1ndianapolis News (Ind.).
President Mckinley started off in
the right direction, but his backbone is
weaker than gelatine where opposition
to the trusts is concerned, and he has
placed himself In a position Of sub
serviency that is humiliating even to
his friends.-N. Y. Journal.
WHAT a good silver man Mr.. Nc
knley was during Mr.. Cleveland's I'D