Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-14

foYore explained and as every live news
paper in the United States understands,
in two acts under the man
ngement of the house Judiciary commit
tee.
The first act ended with the defeat Of
an antitrust amendment by the solid vote
of the Democrats. Had there been the
ghost of chance of effecting the pro-
posed change in the fundamental law of
the nation no one suspects that 1t would
have been introduced. Its presentation
was a feature of carefully prepared
scheme to put the Democrats In hole
The object of the management was to
manufacture capital for the then pending
presidential campaign of 1900.
The second act was the passage through
the house by practically unanimous
vote Of stringent antitrust bill amenda-
tory OF or supplementary to the Sherman
antitrust law. That bill met its pre-
destined death In the senate at the hands
OF the Republican majority in that body.
The senate refused to consider 1t. An OPP
position senator on the eve of the adj
journment Of congress made vigorous
plea for an opportunity to vote on that
measure, which had received the vote Of
every Republican member of the house,
but his appeal had no effect. The bill is
still on file in senate committee room.
buCn are lHS ldClS, dLu ~ WOulu uC u
gross disparagement Of the intelligence
Of so enterprising metropolitan news
paper as the New York Press to suppose
1t to be ignorant of them. Yet In the
face of that record the Press declares
that amendments to the Sherman law
attempted by tho Republican party when
1t was discovered that the Sherman law
was inadequate to protect the interests
and rights of the public against combina-
tons and agreements in restraint of trade
and competition were defeated by the
Democrats" That no room may be left
for doubt as to the meaning of the Press
1t goes on to assert that 'in the Fifty
sixth congress the Republicans engaged
to make such changes in the Sherman
law as would make 1t fulfill the designs
OF its trainers and enable its provisions
to be applied to all acts in restraint of
trade without evasion or escape. But the
Democrats In congress aligned themselves
solidly against this Republican legislation
and for the time being killed It"
The Press can easily find "this Repub-
lican legislation" in the north end of the
capitol It reached the place it was in
tended to occupy. The Press can also
readily find the practically solid Demo-
cratic vote of the house recorded for 1t,
and the Press should be able to discover
abundant evidence that no business OF
the Fifty-sixth congress was more care
fully attended to than the accomplish
ment of its firm purpose to let the trusts
alone. Thus far the Fifty-seventh con-
gress has shown equal disinclination to
injure the feelings of the managers OF
monopolistic combines.
Fourteen Different Ways.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch says:
president is matter that puzzles a great
many people. His name has given rise to
q greater variety of pronunciation than
| that of any statesman who has ever GO.
cupied the front rank.
| The English people SHE'D at "D'Israeli'
when they first saw it in print, and
Americans when they first saw "Thiers
were given pause. Bonaparte changed
the spelling of his name, and there are
some purists who excite amusement by
4 still spelling It "Buonaparte" and pro.
| nouncing 1t accordingly.
But for man of worldwide fame, as
the president of the United States mus
necessarily be in these days, there ha!
never before been case like that o.
Roosevelt" to puzzle mankind. Ever
"Goethe" and "Pepys" were not so mys
tifying.
Elsewhere than in New York and il
Holland and South Africa, where putel
names are common, the greatest variR
lions of the presidents name are to b.
y ~
about it. On the continent almost ever!
man has his own opinion on the subject.
Here are few of the vagaries:
RUzY-vELD, ROsA-FELT,
ROCKWELL, ROSEN-FELT.
ROOSEVELT, ROCKWELL.
| ROSEN-VELL, RUZY-FELT,
ROSEN-VELT, ROSSA-FELT,
ROOSE-FELT, RUZY-VELT,
RUZA-FELT, RUZE-FELT.
l = L.
New York has had her Parkhurst
and Jeromes, and they all turned on
to be fanatics without executive capat
ity or politicians merely playing on til
desires of an overweight populace
but st. Louis has man who is one i
ten million in an emergency-Josep
W. Folk, the hard hitting young prose
cutting attorney. The way he is ham
mering the boodlers has put his nam
on every lip. The future has much i
store for young Mr.. Folk. One of thes
days he will be hailed as Congressman
Folk, Governor Folk or perhaps bette
than either Of those. When Folk wa
nominated by the Democrats, st. Lou
was the most corrupt city POLITICAL
in America, with the possible exceI
ton of Philadelphia. The city ha
been in the hands Of powerfully il
trenched Republican ring, and som,
times the returns showed a Republica
majority as high as 10000. But Roll
! Wells was elected mayor by the Den
ocrats in three cornered race. IT
strides made by st. Louis since thu
. happy change was made will probabl
serve to make the city Democratic Il
81 generation to come. The name {
Folk has become as great terror
. st. Louis corruptionists as was that {
, Tamerlane to the robber bands of ASH
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