Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-02
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rroi OF the government ror the Hrsr time
| in thirty-fve years and for the only two
| years in the last forty-five.
In view of this scrap of history and re-
| calling the revolution that occurred be-
! tween the Democratic funeral of 1872 and
I the tremendous Democratic victory of
| 1874. 1t might be well for the Republicans
| to beware of overconfidence and to repress
| their inclination to sheer at the Demo-
cratic party. Much may happen in the
4 next fourteen months. All that is requir-
| ed to insure Republican defeat is get
! ting together of the reputable elements OF
the opposition. The Republican leaders
| are adding to the disaffection in their
| party. Given tolerably well united De-
i mocracy on a conservative platform and
| under safe and popular leader, and the
story of 1892 might easily be repeated.
| The influence of congress is very likely to
| operate in that direction.
White Slavery In Michigan.
Those philanthropists who have been
agonizing so much about newly es-
tablished species of African slavery in
Alabama would do well to devote at
least a portion of their energies to
breaking up newly established spe
cies of white slavery in Michigan, as
the following dispatch will prove:
l
Kalamazoo, Mich, Sept. 12.-Anthony
Demers, proprietor of shoe shining
stand, confessed that he paid SIS for Mich
| olas Demoggeor, Greek boy thirteen
| years old. who ran away from him Thurs
day. Demers was ''sweated" by the sher-
| iff, and his revelation of system OF
child pconage followed.
| Every year boys are being picked up in
| the streets of Greek cities and sold into
slavery in this country. The purchasers
| pay from $50 to SIS for five or six year
| old boy for the first year. The second
year the price is advanced SIS. Each sue
| ceeding year a small advance is made In
| the amount paid until the boy is of age.
| Then the purchaser must take his chances
| with his purchase.
| Anthony Dcmers and brother, Alex,
| are at the head of shoe shining organ
ization which operates shoe polishing par
lors in Kalamazoo Battle Creek. Jackson.
| South Bend, st. Joseph, Benton Harbor,
| Detroit and Chicago
Democratic Chairman.
1t seems to be generally taken and
accepted that Hon. james X. Jones of
Arkansas, ex-senator of the United
States, will not be candidate to sue
coed himself as chairman of the ma
tional Democratic committee. Conse-
quently Democrats are looking around
for fitting person to occupy that high
and influential position. At present
the name most frequently printed in
that connection is that of Hon. Thomas
Taggart of indianapolis, ex-mayor of
that city.
A Disrupted Cabinet.
Joe didn't know that it was loaded.
He dragged England into as unholy Il
war as has ever been waged OH earth
and crushed the brave little South At
rican republics at a fearful and un-
expected cost Of life and treasure. He
is responsible for thousands of widows
and orphans on two continents. Hun
drcds of blackened chimneys consti-
tute his monuments in the Transvaal
and in the Orange Free State. He
wrought this red ruin because gold in
large quantities had been discovered
in the bailiwicks of Paul Kruger and
President Stein. at the close Of the
war which he had precipitated he was
the foremost Englishman of his day
and concluded that anything was pos
sible for him. So, to show his power,
to exploit his greatness, to pose as the
master of the realm, lie undertook to
undo the beneficent work Of Richard
Golden, John Bright and Sir Robert
Peel and to once more fasten the high
protective tariff system OIL the English
people. 1t is as true today as when
Shakespeare first wrote it that vault
ing ambition sometimes o'erleaps it.
self" So it was with Joseph Cham
berlain. He has come down. outside
the breastworks." to borrow famous
phrase from President Benjamin Har-
rison in his celebrated message of con-
dolence to Warner Miller. His effort
to build q new Chinese wall about his
country has ended most disastrously
for him and has disrupted the cabinet,
he and two of his friends retiring there
from. He, n renegade Liberal, has per-
haps unwittingly prepared the way for
the return Of the Liberals to power,
which will fill his cup of sorrow to
overfowing, for 1t is part Of the nature
of renegade to hate those whom he
has deserted Joe miscalculated. He
imagined, and vainly, that because the
Britishers permitted him to plunge
them into disgraceful and inhuman
war for which they had no desire they
would stand anything. but when he
touched theft stomachs by advocat.
ing q law which would put up the
price of victuals he committed polit
ical suicide. 1t Is well. Let him go
No generous man anywhere will grieve
for Ioasc M a al uoyhl
Not For Joseph.
For the last five or six months the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat and other
advocates OF q stake and rider tariff
have been insisting that under the
lead Of lingo Joe Chamberlain Eng
lend is about to return to the doctrine
of high protection. OF course nobody
that has any sense and is at all ia
miliar with the history Of that country
for the last hundred years ever be
lieved any such stuff. Now comes the
Chicago Tribune, high class Repub
lican paper, which states the truth as
follows:
First blood for free trade in England
At byelection held in Argyllshire OF
Wednesday the Liberal canr. late, y. s.
Ainsworth, was elected by a1najority OF
4.5S6 over Charles Stewart, the Unionist
Stewart made his campaign on the pro.
tectionist issua, while Ainsworth stood Ut
solidly for free trade. AT the last cleo.
ton the UnionistS carried the seat by COO
From the present state of public opinion
In England, Chamberlain's proposal viii
be rejected at the next general election
and England will abide for awhile longer