Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-11-21

KING ever gwen to a Foreign commissioner
on . similar mission. the emperor and
empress dowager took advantage OF the
occasion to ask him numerous questions
about American President Roosevelt and
the character and extent of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. To do this they
violated all precedents and astonished the
array of princes and courtiers present py
requesting Commissioner Barrett ana MN,
lister Conger to step upon the sacred
throne platform itself. For ten minutes
or more their majesties exchanged words
with these two American representatives.
while the surrounding officials looked on
in apparent surprise that no harm befcH
them for daring to approach SO near 10
the Son of Heaven. Their majesties an
nounced that they not only would issue an
edict that China should participate In the |
worlds fair. but would send an imperial i
commissioner to represent them They
specially requested Commissioner General
Barrett to convey to President Roosevelt |
their deep appreciation of the attitude Of |
America toward China in her troubles.
That remarkable excerpt recalls !
Mark Twain's famous dictum. Blessed
ia the man that bloweth his own horn,
lest 1t be not blown" The best thing
the Louisiana Purchase exposition
managers could do would be to recall
Commissioner General Barrett forth
with and to squelch his secretary.
Leze Majesty.
The brilliant editor of the Washing
ton Post, Independent, is liable-in fact,
quite lisely-to' be hauled UP for leze
majesty OF at least to be taboocd by
our Anglomaniac aristocrats and land
grabbers IL he does not suddenly check
himself i'll the mad career upon which
he has entered, for in recent editorial,
commenting on Englands war upon
..the Mad Nlollah," he has the impu-
dence to say thisi
We suppose that the whole trouble is
the British mind that The Mad A1ollahss
country and people are richly endowed
: with portable property of some kind. 1t
is q conviction which has always fired the
true Brfton's heart and led to violence In
every part of the world in which persons
and territories lay under this dark suS-
picion. For more than four centuries the
| Anglo-Saxons have been ready at al.
!, times to go forth into the four corners Of
the earth at the barest meption ef a liEi-
/! dend in marketable plumber. They have
! pverrun India for gold and jewels and
! propagating The opium trade-with China;
I they have harried the Dutch in Africa
/, since the beginning Of the nineteenth
/ century until the discovery of gold and
| diamonds twenty-five or thirty years ago,
| converted them into extcrmtnatoss aud
! set in motion armies such as England has
not put af.oat or afoot In all her piratical
! career They are the same old fierce and
| bloody minded spectators that sailed forth
from Scandinavia in the dark ages and
| ravaged every land that could not help it
| self.
VT witt for further information. May be.
| after all, they ARE wortli looting. =! i''
Now submit that things are coming
4 to pretty pass when nm American
| editor right under the nose of Mr.. Sec
rotary of State Hay is permitted to
talk in that straip about England. M.
der the protection Of whose gnns, ne
eording to Joseph Chamberlain, we
negotiated the calaem4ittous treaty Of
Paris It's misprision Of treason at
least.
Rather Severe. :
Every once in awhile some preacher
takes q fa!l gut 9f the secular press,
and then once In awhile some editog
Of n secular newspaper takes fall out
Of some particular preacher. The fol
lowing editorial from the New York
Press is more or less severe:
caa as s1y,s q @ t fsRsa,ng
a half. Those fine old fellows-Paysdn
Il Whitefield. Wesley. Jonathan Edwards
Caldwell. Witherspoon and Burr Gather
Of Aaron and founder of Princeton univer
heaven ssa a ahS tie gospel e afp into tue aee,
board from the curbstone. They called
things by their right names and saHet
slnpers-eossibIy. The Rey. Pr. Morgan
Dix. who has been preaching At enc en-
Of the street for forty years. paid less At
tention to Its habitues than any othel
clergyman in town. To all intents ant
purposes he does not and never did know
that such an institution as the Stock Elk
change exists. No open air laundering.
for him! He prefers his , priestly robe rob
| II the quiet pulpit of old Trinity. Mer'
wan street siiineF!7 lie has no time j,
listen to preaching. But with a: glance D
the eye as he hurries across the street h
l can take in i'thgs whole Silent sermon
! hrsaebel by the Venerable ediffce OF a re
liglous t6rporatiap that GYMS propett,
worth in round numbers 800, 6oo. 000 y!
which it has never paid 81 in taxes. VIVA
sort Of sermon is It? The gospel o
| wealth hangs its banner on the QUITE
wall, and the cry Is. "Stll they GOMEZ!
We were deeply pious community a
upper atmosphere ii 81 q skyscIRpef We IL
grown wicked again. AS MamInon ascetd
the church descendS,