Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-05-08

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mat wnen ne made his trade with M.
poieon. A newly made world power in
decd! Everybody but the jingoes
knows that that is precisely what we
have been for full century. The
Corsican would have been doing bet
ter part by his subjects had he moved
them, bag and baggage, with their lares
and penates, to Louisiana and aban-
doned la belle France to her enemies;
but, great as he was-and perhaps he
was the greatest Of all the sons of
Adam-he had no adequate conception
Of the value Of that with which he was
parting for song. Well for US that
he did not know!
sagacious Mr.. Habcock
AS an advertiser Representative Bah
cock Of Wisconsin could have given
pointers to the late lamented Phineas
T. Barnum, ii devant lord mayor of
Bridgeport, and beaten him at his
own game. BY carefully intimating
many things and as carefully doing
nothing as to the tariff Bah manages
to keep his name in the newspapers all
the time. He can do any living man in
keeping in the public eyeSon SO small
IN amount of capital. The Philadel-
phia Record remarks:
Secretary Root may promise that the
tarif shall not be touched till after his
chief shall be reelected, but the tariff re-
form sentiment is not SO easily put down.
Representative Babcock of Wisconsin,
chairman Of the Republican congressional
committee; says, II regard the Fifty
eighth congress as pledged to revision
OF the tariff" In his opinion the work
should have been done at the last session.
and he notices that at the last congress
sional election the Republican party lost
practically every city district in the coun-
try. probably because the cost Of living
4 had advanced. Heavy steel and iron cast
ings can be produced here cheaper than
abroad. and yet there is a duty Of IS q
ton on them. Window glass is about feur
times as high az 1t was q few years ago.
Mr. Babcocs is sagactcus enough to see--
and he represents northwestern sentiment
that If protectionism will not bend II
Wall We OAOkASAAs5
Definitions.
Lame duck Is a new political term
perhaps at present rather slangy, but
age will sanctify it SO that it will prob.
ably be included in the next unabridged
or international dictionary. A lame
duck is q statesman who fell outside
the breastworks," to borrow President
Benjamin Harrison's celebrated con.
tribution to political phraseology. II
will be remembered that Benjamin con.
yeyed to Warner Miller his regrets in
that picturesque language when War
ner's sufferings by reason Of the wal
looping administered to him by the Sage
Of Wolfert's Roost were still In the
acute stage.
Not Our Quarrel.
The carving OF China has begun. d.
our jingoes propose that Uncle Sam
shall have q finger In that pie or not
4 Russia has begun the work by openl,
laying claim to Manchuria, which sh
has really possessed for some time
Japan wants the United States to inter
4 fere with Russia's little game Of graf
4 Only think OF that! Japan has BEEF
icavorting around for several year
4 with chip on her shoulder daring ne
lions in general, Russia in particular
to knock it of. Now comes Russia an
coolly appropriates Manchuria, and ia
pm, Instead of mobilizing her arm;
and declaring var on the Muscovite
begs US to pull her cbeetaats ont Of th
fire for her. The ACKNOWLEDGMENT 9
China may be In prospect and It ma
not be. Napoleon said: China Is
4 sleeping lion. Let her sleep. Do ne
a wake her, This is advice which goo
4 many people gould do well to heed. 81
even IL she ts to be alsps Mbered wha
have we to do with 1t? WHAT wiz .
gain by intermedd Hing in affairs white
! do not concern US? Have we entirel
I departed from the doctrine Of the {,
j, theirs that the less rye have to do wit
old world politics and breils the bette
we will be OFT We do not have 1
own a people to trade with them. at
to trade with them is all the use VI
have or ever will have for the Chimes
6unelIng Indian Matters.
Really It seems utterly impossibl
q for our government to have anythtn
to do with the Indians without actin
ridiculously It's permitting them
have improved firearms even furnisl
/ Ing them improved firearms-whe
they were still fighting civilization wit
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