Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-29

KIrs. OF course everybody with amy
sense knew all the time that the bill
spoken Of was cheap and bold dema-
gogy, but nobody has so tersely and
mercilessly exposed it as does the Post
in the aforementioned editorial. Such
organ grinders as the Globe Democrat
make show Of believing that Ray
and his pals We're in earnest, but they
only excite the derision of honest men.
When the devil sets about putting out
his fire, the Republicans will bust the
trusts and not before.
"Et Tu, Brutel"
The New York Evening Post, indie
pendent, founded by Alexander Hamil-
ton and for years edited by William
Cullen Bryant, author of 'Thanatop-
SIS" makes the following satirical re-
marks touching the presidential mid
summer trust hunt:
We would not be thought to speak flip
PANTY of the presidents plans He Is, no
doubt in dead earnest. His sincerity in
tho position which he has taken on this
subject is as unquestionable MS his cour-
age We cannot. however. blind ourselves
to the fact that long range summer
fight with trusts is very different thing
from coming to close grips with the mon
sters in the winter at Washington. From
such hand to hand contest the president
and his party have just emerged, and the
trusts were not the ones to come out of it
considerable shuck up like and per
miscuously chawed." The truth is, as
careful study of the habits of the trust will
show, that animal is what may be called
an estimating instead of alternating
through, caring not for the loud cries of
its assailants on stump or platform. But
when the winter comes, with an actual
bill In congress, like Mr.. Littlefelds of
this year. then it appears all teeth and
claws, and by the time the trust gets
through with that bill its own father
would not recognize It,
Another Witness.
The Chicago Record, which support
ed Mr.. Mckinley in 1896, thus ex-
presses it's opinion of the presidents
antitrust crusade:
The most important observation con.
tanned in the presidents Pittsburg adj
dress is that in which he declares that
new legislation is needed on the subject
of trusts and combinations in restraint Of
trade and industry.
Probably 80 per cent of the American
people will agree with the president on
the proposition that there should be addi-
tional legislation relative to the trusts Of
the criminal variety, but most of those
who are in earnest in their hostility to
such combinations will not support him
| in his assumption that that legislation
| should be in the line of regulation and
| control exclusively.
The kind of legislation which would put
| most OF the great commercial plunderers
| out of business could be effected by an
honest congress in a few days and in q
few words by placing the products of ev-
| cry lawless trust on the free list.
Mr.. Roosevelt adheres to the policy
which makes trusts. He has no particular
regard for a policy which would unmake
| them.
| A La Sllas Wegg.
Readers of Charles Dickens of bless
ed memory will remember that at ir-
regular and frequent intervals Silas
Wegg dropped into poetry, q pleasant
if somewhat inartistic performance on
| the part of Mr.. Wegg. Some anony-
nous writer, following Mr.. Wegg's ex-
ample, tackled the Philippine problem
| in this wise:
| Spain once had tiny lamb, the meek
est lamb around. She sold the lamb to
| Uncle Sam for twenty millions down.
| 1t home. YOU know. The mutton rare
| turned out bear, and Sam can't let 'er
go.
| The poet, whoever he was, just about
exhausted the subject, with which ora
tors, statesmen and editors have been
wrestling for more than three years.