Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-05-16

the 20. X" of Tne CD. II only few
score or a few hundreds of fierce ten
year-olds were slain under the terms of
his order. If Smiths order was disre-
garded, then it merely shows that the
officers and men under Smith were
more humane than he. 1t does not nit
igate his crime against humanity in the
estimation of Il single hair.
The Washington Post rises 10 remark
that Hell-Roaringc1kill-a Smith
will hardly make pleasing attraction
for the close congressional districts this
year.
Complete Pacification."
1t is a well recognized fact that
words and phrases gradually, through
the mutations Of time and the changes
of custom, often come to have mean
ings entirely different from the sense
originally intended in their use. For
instance, the word prevent" ut one
time meant to go before, in pure con-
formity with Its Latin origin, but now
1t has very different meaning. So,
fear, it will only be short time until
the words complete pacification" will
stand to mean a bloody outbreak Of
hostilities surprising anything in the
previous conduct of the war. 1t has
only been short time since the Phil
ippines were, as body, completely
pacified. One daily paper of May 6
contained on its first page a list Of
killed and wounded American soldiers
that filled third of column, besides
such headlines as these: prisoners
Shot In Squads. American Declares
q Thousand Filipinos Were Slain Near
Sorgoson." And in another column on
the same page We're the following:
"Killed as They Fled. Thirtyfive Moro
Prisoners Shot by Guards. AS Many
More Made Escape"
AS between the heroic efforts of
Kitchener in South Africa and Chaffee
in Manila complete pacification"
stands q very poor chance of retaining
its long accepted meaning.
The beef trust now proves itself q
real friend to the Democratic party,
for 1t is giving splendid illustration of
the evils Of high tariff that allows
few meat magnates to double the price
of all meats arbitrarily and without
any cause that has its foundation in
the law Of supply and demand. OF
course the beef trust does not intend to
aid the Democratic party. Every men,
Der of the trust swears by the unex-
loI 20 n ,{DA $ov NJ
Design No. 1884.
Another of the forces working night
and day toward the success Of the De-
mocracy is the glass trust.
1t takes So or 81 at the present prices
to buy pane Of glass that would have
cost 81 at the time the Dingley tariff
bill went into effect This is merely a
sample of the increased cost of all
building materials under the Dingley
tariff. Since home building is q SUBJ
tect that interests almost every man,
let US consult some published state
ments made by prominent architect
Of st. Louis, made by him in q business
way and not in connection with any
discussion as to the rise in prices on
lumber, glass, hardware, ETC.. under
the workings of the Dingley act. Here
you are:
1 have before me a little book of cot
tage plans published by Herbert G.
Chivers, architect, Office in the Wain-
wright building, st. Louis. I have had
it several years, and / think it was
published about 1897. On page SO there
appears view Of pretty little cot.
tage, known as design No. 1884. with
the maximum cost of the erection there
of given at $3.50, completed 1t con-
tains five rooms and seems to be well
arranged and well built
Now, Mr.. Chivers is preparing for
the St Louis Republic series of plans
for summer cottages, one Of these ap.
pearing in each Sundays edition. In
the magazine section of the edition of
Sunday. May d, find this same cot.
tage, identical in every detail with the
one found in his pamphlet, the news
paper cut evidently having been made
| from the same set Of architects draw.
| ings. And is the cost of erection given
at $469? Far from it! Mr.. Chivers
states in a few words accompanying
the picture that the cost Of the erection
of this cottage at the present time
would be about $1,000!
I used to know an old philosopher
down in Kentucky who said that the
most sensitive nerve in the human
anatomy is the one leading to the peck
etbook. If there are any home build
ers in the Republican party, this one
fact ought to give them an attack Of
nervous prostratioD.
nh H.