Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-26

the Fffty-eighth congress shall not only
work for revision along the line of re-
duction Of duties, including reduction of
the duty on lumber, Sat will say to you
that If the Republican, control the Fifty
eighth congress there will be such re.
vision of the tariff.
The Republican fire in Brother Taw-
ney's rear must be rather warm in or
der to force such declaration out of.
him.
The devil was sick,
The devil a monk would be;
The devil got well,
The devil monk was he.
In his card Tawney insists, mirabile
dictu, that he supports the presidents
Cuban reciprocity scheme, though he
differs with his Republican brethren on
the ways and means committee rs to
the features of the bill! Oh, my soul,
what q whopper! Tawney's black
plume was in the very forefront Of the
insurgents in their fight against Ted
dy's Cuban reciprocity scheme. Taw-
ney is one of the ablest and most per-
sistent among the young Republicans,
and he must be scared within an inch
of his life as to his nomination to pub
fish card like that. But the CD.
must do its duty and denounce Taw-
ney as free trader. 1t must not per-
NIT trifie like the worlds fair to de-
ter it from doing its plain duty.
Voluntarily Retire.
Those pessimists who imagine that
the only inducement to public life is
the official salary ought to put on their
thinking caps. Thomas b. Reed of
Maine and John M. Allen of Mississip-
| pi, after long and distinguished serv-
ice in the house, voluntarily retired in
order to earn money enough to live
on in their old age. At least four men,
bers of the present congress have re-
fused to stand for reelection, all liv-
ing in safe" districts, one having been
already renominated. They are Wheel
er Of Kentucky, Tayler of Ohio, Nor
ris of Minnesota and Woods of Cali
fornia. Perhaps there are others. The
truth is that the salary is by no means
the greatest inducement to congress
sional life. Ambition, noble love of
fame, a desire to help mold mighty
nations DEGREES, to shape its destiny,
are the main inducements. 1t may
well be doubted If the average con-
gresham can earn as much as the con-
gressional salary in his profession or
business, but that he can save more
is beyond all cayil. Senator Bailey ut
tered noble sentiment in the senate
when in discussing the proposition to
increase the salary Of federal judges
he declared that he hoped the time
would never come when men would
seek high Office chiefly or wholly for
the pay. Most public officials, l am
fain to believe, look at the matter
somewhat in the same light. OF course
officials ought to be well paid Sound
public policy demands that, but honor
is still better than money. 50 7 :
| A very pleasant and unusual thing
happened when the Democratic con.
vention met at Paducah to nominate .
successor to Wheeler. His admiring
constituents presented him with a
handsome silver service, and the pres
entation speech was made by the man
nominated to succeed him, Hon. Ollie
Jamesl That was what General Gar
field would haze denominated as Zone
of the roses Of polities.n Wheeler's
friends claim that, while he yalupta-
rily quits congress, his public career Is
by no means closed and predict that
he will return to public life before
many years as q senator Of the United
States. He Is q brilliant young man
in the very flower of his years, typ
ical Kentuckian, tall, slender. sinewy,
active, handsome, courageous and his
friends may be correct in their prog
nostications. Joe Blackburn is among
the veterans; SO is Governor James
Bennett McCreary, who succeeds De-
Doe in the senate on the 4th of March.
Either Of them is easily old enough to
be Wheeler's father. If he have pa
thence, he can win toga by playing
ssyaiittiing game,
| A Pleasing Picture,
| President Roosevelt appeared in
pleasing guise when acting as godfa-
Their recently. When the babies are in
volved, we can all be agreeable, and,
truth to tell, Colonel Roosevelt is a
more charming parsonage when he is
doing harmless things like that than
when pc is prancing about making un-
reasonable political speeches. He un-
derstands babies, as hehds children Of
his own-plenty of them, active ones.
hanging all the way from grown up
daughter to little tot-and all WIG
know anything ABOUT it agree that ha
Ia a tiptop, good father and presuma-
bly, discharged his duties as a godfa-
ther with grace and dignity.
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