Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-27

charges having been made, the Amer
lean people have "a right to know the.
truth, don't you know. The presump-
ton is that General Wood was permit
ted to draw and did draw only what
the law allows. Why, then, conceal
the facts? This is only one instance
out Of many.
The Old Game.
Abraham Lincoln once said, "You
can fool part of the people all the time
and all Of the people part Of the times
but you can't football of the people all
the time" The present day Republic
ans appear not to believe that saying,
for they go straight ahead trying to
fool all the people all the time. Their
last effort on that line of human en-
deavor denounced by Lincoln is in ref
erence to the so called Fowler financial
BILL which has been reported favora-
bly, from the committee OH banking
and currency. Recently the house Re-
publtcans caucused on that bad meas
ure and refused to force Its considera-
ton at this session, thereby endeavor-
ing to have the country believe that
they do not intend to pass it at all
when the truth Is that they have sim
ply postponed It to 'more convenient
season"-to wit, the short session of
the present congress. Wherefore? Be-
cause they are afraid to pass At on the
eve of the congressional elections. That
they intend to pass 1t next winter no
sane man who is well informed doubts.
/, for one moment. 1t Is their old and
usual caper to postpone to the session
Immediately after the election oil meas
ures they IRE afraid to pass Just be-
| fore an election, relying upon the
shortness Of human memory to work
forgiveness. The masses of the people
are dead against the bill, and If the
question is properly handled the Re
publicans will lose the next house.
Showing Its coIors.
All intelligent people know that from
the beginning Of the terrible war in
South Africa the Republican admins
trattons at Washington have been
check by jowl with John Bull, Joseph
Chamberlain & Co., and the Repub-
lican organ grinders have backed up
the administration in its prof. English
capers. In my last letter pointed out
the utter hypocrisy of the Globe-Demo-
crat in pretending to sympathize with
the Beers. 1t was not able to keep up
the pretense long. Its natural antipa-
thy to the Beers soon cropped out. Its
issue of June 0 contains this infamous
sheer at as brave people as the sun
| ever shone upon:
A year ago the Beers were offered S.
100000 to restore their farms If they would
agree to terms of peace. By waiting
twelve months they obtained s15, O0O, 900
and big lot Of British commissarX. sup
plies. ~.
I'm its issue of June 10 1t repeats the
insult in the following words:
When 1T is reported that the Beers who
surrender cheer for King Edward 1t Is
4 well to remember the SIS, 600, 600 indemnity
| vet to be distributed
| The intimation in each paragraph is
that the Beers We're fighting simply for
money when everybody knows that
they We're fighting to retain their free:
dom, sacrificing their property, their
homes and their lives. How any Amer
lean who loves liberty and remembers
our Revolutionary war can sneer ut
the sufferings of the Beers is thing
past finding out. The G.-D.'s antics
are q shame to the American republic.
Senator Hear's Speech.
The CALLED jade winces. The Kansas
City journal, one of the most rampant
and truculent organ grinders in the
land, says:
A million copies of Senator Hparls
speech on the Philippines are to be circu.
lated as q Democratic campaign docu.
ment. Those who read it sheuld..bear in
mind that the author declares he is still q
Republican because the Republican party
is UNNECESSARILY superior. in every way te
the Democratic party.
Yes, Senator Hoar is Republican
and his great speech is in the nature o.
: Estates evidence" against his own par
ty. True, he, through force of habit
and by reason Of long association, still
votes the Republican ticket, but hi.
speech will convince thousands Of
young Republicans that he and the,
ought to vote as he speaks, and the.
will proceed to do so, no matter wha
he may do. The Kansas City Journa
and other Republican organ grinders
! that indorse everything labeled Repub
licanism might as well understand tina,
now as after election The people Of
the United States are not being lee
around by the nose by the organ grind
ers as they once We're. They are do
ing their own thinking more largely
than ever.
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