Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-17

rafting good thing when they
nominated Mr.. Coler for govern
Or. Pattison of Pennsylvania,
Coler of New York and Hollis of
New Hampshire are good three to
draw to. Pattison has been elected
governor of Pennsylvania twice be-
cause he is an honest man. Perhaps
the same thing may happen to each
member Of this illustrious trio this time
and for the same reason. But hasn't
Republican politics fallen to low level
when man can be elected governor of
great commonwealth solely because
he is honest?
The New York Democrats not only
put their best foot foremost in nomi-
mating candidate for governor, but
they made radical departure in mat
ter of platform by declaring in favor
of government ownership of the an
thracite coalfields. There is meat in
that proposition, sure as you live, and
lots of it. Perhaps the time has come
to settle once and for all whether J..
Pierpont Morgan & Co. or any other
set of men are or can be stronger than
the government of the United States.
If the proposition of the New York
Democrats should be accepted as the
proper thing then we can see the begin
ming Of the end Of private monopoly
in the public ownership of general
utilities.
Presidential PerambuIation.
A great many persons are coming to
the conclusion that the presidents Of
the United States should pcrambulate
about the country less, thereby reduc-
ing the chances of death by accident or
violence.
Doiliver on Trusts.
My distinguished, mellif1uous and elo-
Quent friend, Hon. Jonathan Il. Dolli-
Yer, junior senator from Iowa, spoke
on the subject of trusts in Chicago not
long ago. When Hon. James Gillespie
Blaine wrote his once famous letter
from Genoa, n Disguised patriot de-
clared, with beads Of persriration and
agony on his brow, that lie had read
that mystifying document right side
up, wrong side up and catawampus,
and then didn't have the remotcst idea
as to what the magnetic man from
Maine was driving at. l am in the
same frame Of mind with reference
to Br'er Delivers remarks as to trusts.
He speaks like the ancient oracle, in
double sensa. He owes it to Il suffer.
ing world to publish diagram with
his remarks. He must believe in the
celebrated mot Of Talleyrand that Ian
guage is intended to conceal thought,
for he most effectually concealed his
thought, If any he has, on the subject
of trusts. Senator Dolliver appears
to have taken a lesson out of the book
of his senior, Senator William b. Alli-
son, who rivals the famous Earl of
Halifax as n trimmer. Great is the
Iowa statesman!
The Wall Street Gamblers.
Two sets of gamblers got to playing
high stakes on Wall street recently.
The inevitable happened. One set got
the other where the wool was tight.
Immediately the set with the upper
hand began to squeeze it's victims.
At once there rose as wild yell
AS all the fiends from heaven that fell
Had pealed the banner cry Of hell,
and the cry was: "Stringency in the
money market! A panic is at hand"
Immediately Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie M. Shaw made unseen
ly haste to rush to the relief of these
gamblers by placing-illegally as many
thinll-three hundred millions of the
peoples money in the hands, or rather
the vaults, Of certain pet banks in
New York to relieve the stringency!
Thus did Leslie NJ. Shaw, who was
going to show the bankers some new
tricks, follow in the footsteps of Ly-
man ]. Gage in aiding and abetting
Wall street. Viye la bagatelle!
Query.-Who cared which set of
Wall street gamblers skinned the 9TH
err except the gamblegg themselves?
Did anybody ever hear of q secretary
of the treasury rushing to the aid Of
the great masses of the people when
threatened with money stringency?
Never? Well hardly ever, and nobody
ever will hear Of such a thing until
we get really Democratic administra-
ton.
American Products Abroad.
Some Americans wonder how the
American manufacturers can beat the
foreigners in their own markets, under
selling the Germans in Berlin, the Eng
lish in London and Liverpool and the
French in Paris, and yet have to be
protected here at home by high tariff
wall. When Frank A. Vanderbilt wrote
his widely quoted article on "The
American Invasion of Europe" show
ing that American manufacturers can
go into free trade countries and "pro-
tected" countries alike and distance all
competitors, it was read by millions of
people. 1t started long train of arti-
cles and editorials of the same char
acter in magazines and newspapers. 1t
made Americans proud of Americas
achievements, but it did more than
that-it awakened every thinking man,
even in the Republican party, to the
knowledge that American industries
that can beat the opposition on it's own
ground certainly do not need "protec-
ton" here at home, and that the only
possible use such tariff can have is
to enable the trusts to mulct the peo-
pie here at home of large sums of
Of dollars each year.
Senator Harris Shoes.
The other day Senator Harris of
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