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

Maine is hedging strongly on
the approaching election with
a very cheap sour grapes
| game. Manley predicts a Republican
majority in the house of thtrtyfye lat
| present 1t is forty three, and then with
face as solemn as an ass he says:
While the Republicans will make a
| strenuous fight in every district where
they have any show whatever still it
must be admitted that it will be far bet
ter for the Republican party in the presi-
Dental contest Of 1904 II 1t should lose the
present house Of representatives, and this
is apparent to every ole. 80.
Just think of it! Fighting strenuous
ly for something they don't want! OF
course this can mean nothing except
that Manley expects defeat for the Re-
publicans and is making soft spot on
which to alight Brother Manley is
not alone in this view, for other lead
ing Republican statesmen have blown
the same whistle.
His "Dear, Dead Friend."..
There is no more representative type
of southern gentleman than those to be
found in Atlanta, and no name is bet
ter known in that city than that of
Major Livingston Minis. His body
servant, an old colored man named
Richard Henry, died the other day and
was buried from the colored folks
church. A great many white people
attended the funeral, and the pastor Of
the church called on Major Minis for
some remarks. He made the remarks,
and l would like every Massa chusetts
| man who wishes to stir up little
strife between the whites and the
blacks down south to read what the
major said Here it is:
Your call on me to speak on this occa-
sion was certainly unexpected, and yet
while so heartily commencing all that
has been SO feelingly and eloquently said
IN reference to my dear dead ,friend-my
friend of more than third of century,
cannot refrain from expressing the gen.
uine grief and sorrow that his death has
occasioned me; indeed a sorrow that my
entire family shares. and I know too it
VIII be felt by the large number of his
friends and mine who knew him so well in
the connection he had with the business
in which have been engaged for SO MANY
years. and l might add his many white
friends In this city who respected and adj
mired him for the splendid qualities that
he possessed. He was ever doing charity
and kindness to all sorts of people. He
was indeed model husband and father,
| good citizen, a loyal and devoted friend
| and Christian gentleman.
| To me his offices of concern and thought
| fulness were constant and grateful
| In the course of nature he should have
survived me, and I always felt that If he
did there was no living man on whom 1
could better rely for kindness and care for
| my family.
I can point to no one whose daily life
and character afford better and more
| commendable example to all men to emu
| late than this.
He well deserves all the comforts, bless
ings and promises of the holy religion he
| professed and which the distinguished
reverend clergy has on this solemn occa-
sion SO ably administered.
care not. though, for creeds in that I'M
known country from whose bourne no
| traveller returns" and to which his pure
spirit tends for feel that the good man
who sleeps in all the awful majesty Of
death in yonder coffin carries with him
acceptable credentials to all the happiness
that pertains to mortals after death.
Major Minis and his people were
slave owners, and the above fifty rep
resents the real feeling Of that class
toward the former bondmen.
| ne arlff Reform Row Again.
That tariff row is still hot, especially
in Iowa. The Cummins tariff revision
men and the Henderson antirevision
crowd are still at each others throat.
The following editorial utterance of
the Washington Post is very interest
ing:
The maximum Of smoke from the mini
mum of fire Is problem that has been
| colved by the Iowa Republicans with the
innocent looking little tariff and trust
plank that they chucked into their plat
| form. 1t seemed as harmless as boys
popgun with its paper ammunition, but Its
report has been heard around the
world" and ''its wild reverberati tons. as
| OF thunder in the mountains" are still
shaking the continent. How far into the
future its influence may penetrate and
what will be the final summing up of its
effects on the destnies of parties who
would venture to predict?
Governor Cummins and his faction were
credited with a great victory in securing
the adoption of that plank, and they are.
In some quarters, charged with the re-
sponsibiltty of having exploded the mine
that blew Speaker Henderson off the
track. 1t is therefore a matter of some
Interest to find out from the governor just
what that plank means and why he sup
ports it. Here is his explanation, which
seems clear enough:
what have tried at various times to
say is this: A monopoly, whether estab-
iished by trust partnership or individual,
Is not entitled to the benefit of tariff du-
ties and that II this were the law it
would have some effect in preventing the
creation of monopoies.
1t Is not necessary to the business of
the country that monopolies shall exist,
and ambitious men should be informed
rNf hn,,@ l.otl.
and the tariff. You can be sure they will
choose the course most profitable to
them"
That is very mild compared with the
utterances of Mr.. Babcock when he
mounted his antitrust tariff reform
charger and boldly set himself af1eld to
attack the citadels of protected monopo-
lies. The governors statement compares
with some Of the Babcock interviews as
blue skimmilk with hot scotch.
The governor does not positively assert
that there are any protected monopolies,
nor Is there any such assertion in that
mild hammered platform. Both the plat
form and the governor point rather to the
future than the present. to prevention
rather than cure. They seem anxious to
avoid soaring the monopolies and there
fore go after them In gum shoes instead
Of hunting them with brass band, as Mr..
Babcock proposed.
It Will be further observed that the
Iowa insurgents are not carried away
with the delusion that all of the trusts are
projected or that all the evils of the trusts
could he cured by tariff amendments.
Tn ~ know that to be absurd What they
40 believe is that monopolists ought not to
be protected In that belief the voting
masses, regardless of party lines, are with
.neih ana no man who disputes that
proposition can be a consistent friend of
protection
~ Inc IDEA that the Republican party can