Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-04

ly bright and sometimes sparllcs like
gem. Occasionally it renders valu-
able service to mankind in philosophy.
literature and lumor. Recently it
made discovery in letters. or, rather,
in song, which will astound the public,
bringing joy to few and poignant
regret to many.
For several decades the one song
loved and sung by all the English
speaking race, without reference to
politics, religion, nationality or resi-
dence, is Home, Sweet Home" That
has been the prime favorite at every
theater and opera house on the face Of
the earth wherever the language of
John Milton, William Shakespeare and
Thomas Darlington Macaulay is spoken
or understood. Thousands of weary
wanderers in foreign lands have SOL
aced themselves with the best beloved
of all ballads. 1t has cheered the SOL
der marching to battle, the Jack Tar
upon the sea, the searcher for the
north pole and the avant courier of our
commerce in every quarter of the
NolAa. <AiODS, WIFI tllo llIstIlltll itlIS Ol
England, Home, home, sweet, sweet
home" has bclted the globe During
all these years millions of people have
believed fondly that John Howard
Payne wrote that immortal song and.
so believing. have blessed his name
He died an American consul in for
cign land, consuisiip conferred upon
him because president Of the United
States, Il secretary Of state and SEN
ate believed that lie was the author
For Il long, long time lie slept in a
humble grave across the Atlantic. far,
far indeed from all that lie loved while
tabernacling i'll the flesh. Later his
that is too tame, too feeble, too cold a
word to apply to the feeling entertain
ed for him; lovers Is the proper term,
his lovers in America--determined that
his bones should be brought home aad
should rest in American soil until that
great day when the quick and dead
shall be summoned to appear at the
judgment bar of God. 1t was the
unanimous demand of the home build
ers, the home prescrvers and the home
lovers of the republic. The demand
was needed by the powers that were.
and the remains Of John Howard
Payne We're reverently, tenderly and
proudly borne home in battleship and
laid away In historic ground at the
expense OF mighty nation whose
great, pulsing heart he had stirred to
the very depths.
And today Thanksgiving, as write,
nowhere that the American flag flies.
on no spot where an American lives,
will a family of our blood sit down to
its dinner without thinking kindly of
John Howard Payne, not because he
was consul, but because they believe
he wrote "Home, Sweet Home"
But according to the Kansas City
Journal the whole world has been de-
ceiving itself for, 10, these many years
as to the authorship of the tenderest
Of all songs. Our affections have been
misplaced. A nation dug up the mold
ering dust of the wrong man and
brought it home.
The Journal has made the astounding
discovery that Tom Paine and not John
Howard Payne wrote Home, home,
sweet, sweet homer
Now, having started into the business
Of making literary finds. perhaps the
Journal will settle for us the vexed
question of the authorship Of "The Let
ters of Junius," THE Beautiful Snow"
There's No Pocket In Shroud" etc.
Tom Paine wrote Common Sense"
''The Age of Reason and other books,
but AIissourians at least will not be-
lieve that he wrote Home, Sweet
Home" until they are shown.
The Deficiency Of 1898.
On the 10th of November in discuss
ing the Cuban reciprocity bill, Hon.
Serene q. Payne, chairman of the ways
and means committee, repeated the Re-
publican stock argument, to which
there is no foundation in fact, that the
Wilson tariff bill produced the deficien-
cy in the treasury in 1893.
made up my mind that l would
clear up that for all time, and in doing
30 made the following remarks and
cited the following documents:
always listen to my distinguished
friend. the chairman Of this committee
tMr. Paynel, with pleasure, sometimes
with amazement and frequently with awe.
There was one paragraph in his speech
yesterday which constitutes what Horace
Greeley would have denominated mighty
rich reading" I will read 1t to you:
Under the Wilson bill we had fallen
behind IN the revenue, and the object Of
or h fnnt h l,.tr t. A.
revenue as well as protection. Demo-
cratic bill, as, for instance. the Wilson,
German enormity, was neither protective
nor did it supply sufficient revenue to
support the government. 1t was wrong
ut both ends. They profess the principle
of tariff for revenue only, with incidental
protection. They did not get the protec-
ton incidental nor did they get the reve-
nue. under their bill. and so 1t is that we
put the rate Of duty higher on sugar than
was absolutely necessary because we could
get this splendid revenue from the sugar
duty, a revenue that came from the people
of the United States who use sugar in
their households"
Now. to begin at the last end of 1t, ev-
cry Republican In the United States that
l ever heard make speech, every Re-
publican newspaper that ever read in all
my life, has been asserting ever since the
tariff question in this country became
acute that the foreigner pays the tariff
tax" and the American citizen does not
1t Is said an open confession is good for
the soul. I congratulate my friend the
chairman Of the committee on making It,
for he says:
"And SO 1t is that we put the rate of
duty higher on sugar than was absolutely
necessary because we could get this splen-
did revenue from the sugar duty, a reve-
nue. that came from the people of the
United States who used sl1rnr In their