Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-01-02
FACTS AND FICTION
Of Coward vino Assumes the
Nom de Plume Of N. Pol.
itics Punctured.

vi SoWarQ VINO Assumes the
Nom de Plume Of N. Pol.
itics Punctured.
The coward who writes for the
Lime Springs Sun false, hypocritica
view of the position of hundreds o1
people in this county, as temperate
as moral, and as devoted to good gov.
eminent as any member of the Leag-
ue, assumes altogether to much virtue
and morality to be in possession OF
some individual unknown to the pub.
lie. His good works ought to be made
manifest in some other manner than
sending abroad for ''spies and inform.
ers" to prey upon its people, because
thls man is too good, too pure, toe
molly, to be spy sneak and an in.
former, against men, who by some ar
tifice of the hired tool from the slums
of great city may have been induced
to take false step. This hypocrite
may perhaps be familiar with the
Lords prayer ''lead us not into temp
tation" but its sanity does not pre-
clude him as a member of the League
from violating it's letter and spirit.
Men who by the hundreds in this
county are as temperate as any mem.
ber of the League, tut who disbelieve
that its methods are productive of
good, are classed with the Incorporate
by this immaculate assassin of charac-
ter, who wisely conceals from the pub
lie his identity lest his short comings
be Investigated and probed.
Shakespeare made no mistake in
classifying such as
lover proud,
And under honest; in self assumption greater
Than in the note of judgment"
This coward asks what right the
PLAIN DEALER has to bunch certain
parties as ''an unholy triple alliance of
liars, knaves and hypocrites." We re-
ply the right that comes from the ad-
mission of the detectives, and the
knowledge the League possesses of
their character.
For the enforcement of the law in
Howard County, as elsewhere in the
state, we have county attorney and
a sheriff who can be relied upon to do
their duty. But they are not mis-
chief makers and hence were ignored
by the league which as Pope says in
the rape of the lock:
when to mischief mortais bend their will.
How soon they find fit instruments eff ill.,"
These the league found in Wallace
and Murdoch, self confessed perjurers.
Such man as the coward whose crit
cism we are reviewing would have been
a worthy memberof the church which,
Resolved, That the earth and the
fulnes3 thereof belong to Gods people.
"Resolved, That we are God S people. -
He is ignoront Of the money feature
OF the league or dishonest in denying
it. If he will look at the report in the
Cresco Times of the organization in it's
issue of April Goth, he will find that
after Mr.. Abrams had explained that
he was employed by the state league
upon salary that pledges were then
taken from the people for money, =
detectives set at work to find
out the facts and procure testimony
for conviction. Mr.. Abrams said that
it was business proposition that he
is hired and paid a salary etc. The
detectives are likewise paid salary
or daily wages, thus an army of buns
is provided for and the ''molasses, to
sweeten their work ii drawn from the
people in solid cash. At this meeting
the Times reports $35 collected for
Abrams. The boasted strength of the
little finger of the League" is impo-
tent for good, and no threat of ostrac~
ism will deter the PLAIN DEALER from
chaaracterrizing the conspiracy of the
League as it deserves. 1t neither
fears nor respects any such organiza-
tion while it does respect many who
have been deluded into becoming
members thereof.
twill be observed that the long
and labored article in the Sun that
the charges made in this paper hereto
fore, are nowhere denied and dis
proved but instead are apologized for
by this Lacquer thus admitting their
truth.
The intended slur cast upon the
half dozen. elessyE OF this place who
declined CoaytSliiao the League is charac-
teristic of the class which assumes to
possess all the morality, virtue and
temperance in the community. The
quiet yet effective work of the Father
Matthew temperance society conduct
ed by Father Mccarthy, shows better
results than all the ranting of such
demagogues as n. Politics. The ed
itor of this paper, nearly rs years of
of age, has the satisfaction of pointing
to an unbroken record of ahStaining
from the use of intoxicantsa and enjoys
the respect and esteem of worthy
temperance people, He has always
ayailed himself of seasonable oppor-
tunitles to impress upon the young
the Importance of temperate habits
as the means of securing health and
honorable employment and promotion