Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-31

so upliftingly that it exalts its voice in
g1orification of the harmony" now exist
ing in the G. o. P. 1t finds the Repub-
lican line intact" and sees in every direc-
tion evidences that the Republican lead
ers are acting in harmony on all the
great questions" One of those 'evi-
dences'' is the fact that Speaker Hender-
son takes occasion to tell the country
that he Is in line with the president and
all the rest of the real leaders Of the
party on the tariff and all other questions
of any consequence"
Yes; no doubt the CD. is correct in
referring to all of this broadcast har-
mony in the G. o. p with so much con-
fidence, but the Post sharply takes is
sue and calls attention to the pretty
row started by the withdrawal of Hen
derson, the wrangle over the coal strike
in the east, the imbroglio in Massachu-
setts where Mr.. Foss is running for
congress as Republican on a free
trade platform and denouncing the
heaven born Lodge as chatterer of
tommyrot.
In Massachusetts, most of the Repub-
lican congressman are talking tariff
revision. The state platform is the 9th
er way This Is harmony indeed. And
here is more of it: The Liberty league
has just had meeting in Washing
ton. Many. if not most, of its members
have been lifelong Republicans, such
rs ex-senator John b. Henderson of
Missouri. In this meeting resolutions
were passed condemning the Republic
an policies and indorsing the Demo-
cratic candidates for office throughout
the country.
Without going further 1t can easily
be seen that this complacency of the
Globe Democrat is made of very thin
material.
The Moro Chief.
There is at least one man in the orient
who carries his nerve with hinl--to wit,
the sultan of Bacolod. 1t appears that
General Sumner of the United States
army has been sending that eminent
! potentate some soothing letters, to the
last of which the sultan replied as fol-
lows:
The sultan'of Bacolod desires war forth
with. He wishes to retain the religion of
Mohammcd. Cease sending friendly let
ters What we want Is war. We do not
Most assuredly his majesty wasted
no words There is no sort of doubt as
to what he wants. His voice is for
war, and he is quite likely to get what
he wants. commend to his careful
consideration this inscription on the
tombstone of an ambitious western
hunter: "He whistlcd for grizzly and
the grizzly came
Ignoring the Law.
The Hon. Richard Olney, who was
secretary Of state under Cleveland,
made a speech in Boston the other
night in which he lambasted the Re-
publican administration in a way that
warns the cookies Of the heart. 1t is,
Furthermore, evidence that the De
mocracy is getting together in better
shape than at any time since 1892.
This is traceable in great degree to the
utter disregard for the rights of the peo-
pie shown by the Republican party.
Its policy made the trusts, and it has
now become their creature. 1t is the
old story of the man who took some
pieces Of wood and iron and put them
them, but when lie had the job COM
pleted he found that the devil controlled
him instead Of him controlling the
devil. So it is with the trusts and the
Republican party-it has become the
creature of the trusts because it can't
raise it's big campaign corruption funds
without the trusts to furnish the
Doodle.
In the speech to which referred Mr.
Olney said:
:. The signs of the times are that under
the regime of the Republican party and
through the national governments forty
years of partnership with the protected
industries we have come to the pass where
public officials as well as private citizens
deem themselves above the law.
Witness the Jealous haste with which
the treasury PUSHES to the relief Of Wall
street spectators by a novel and forced
construction of the banking law. Witness
the astonishing proceeding of the same
department in its instructions to subordi-
nate offices respecting the duties to be
collected on coal. but the generally law
less atmosphere in which protected Re-
publican reign has enveloped US is even
more strikingly illustrated by the recent
presidential demonstration upon the coal
strike.
The president is our representative with
foreign powers. Will it strengthen his
hands that some half dozen private cit
liens are found swapping their fingers in
his face? The presidents overture to the
coal operators was prompted by the best
motives and should have been treated
with respectful consideration. 1t must
have been declined courteously, even II
firmly but the opportunity to administer
snub to the president was too tempting.
Accordingly he was not only treated as
rash intermeddler; he was also lectured
upon the law and facts of the case and.
to crown all. was notified that the cause
of the troubles was laWlessness, which he
was sarcastically invited to suppress.
For sheer audacity this attitude of the
coal operators could hardly be matched,
and nothing could more strongly empha-
size the disrepute into which the law of
the land has been brought by long con-
tinued Republican domination.
Yet who are they who were SO insistent
upon the suppression Of lawlessness in
the mining regions? Why, the most I'M
blushing and persistent of lawbreakers.
For years they have defied the law of
Pennsylvania. which forbids common car
riers engaging In the business of mining.
For years they have Disseminated be-
tween customers In the freight charges on
their railroads in violation of the inter-
state commerce law. For years they have
unlawfully monopolized interstate COM
merce in violation of the Sherman anti
trust law.
Indeed the very best excuse and cx-
PLANTATION of their astonishing attitude at
the Washington conference are that hav-
Ing violated SO many laws for so long and
so many times. they might rightfuly
think they were wholly immune from Ell
Their punishment or reproach.
1t Is sometimes urged in eXtenuation of
the coal operators foolishly offensive tone