Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-06-19
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congress-, presented n1mSelf TO be
sworn In he was incontinently fred,
but when Reed Smoot, Republican
senator elect from Utah, presented HIM
self to be sworn in the oath was adj
ministered to him without hesitation
and without question. Both are Nor.
and Smoot Republican; hence the
difference in treatment. The Presby-
terrain assembly doesn't believe in such
discrimination, as the following dis
patch will show:
Los Angeles, CAL, May 29.-The one hun
drcd and fifteenth general assembly of the
Presbyterian church dissolved this after
noon at AS o'clock, all business before 1t
having been completed.
The assembly today unanimously adopt
ed the following resolutions. reported by
Rev. DR.. w. w. Holloway from the stand
ing committee on home missions. to which
the question Of Mormontsm had been re-.
ferred:
Whereas. This hierarchy, the church Of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. per-
Hists in the active encouragement and
practice Of the crime of polygamy in dis
regard Of their own pledges and oaths to
the contrary. in contempt Of the clinical
convictions Of the American people and
in defiance of the laws and constitutions
Of. the state and of the United States, and
Whereas. This hierarchy recently. Jan.
20. 1903. through the Utah legislature. has
had elected to the URited States senate
high ecclesiastic, one of its chief authors
ties. the Apostle Reed Smoot. in direct via-7
lntion Of Its pledges to the nation to re-
frain from interference with the affairs of
state. and
Whereas This apostle, Senator Reed
emeot, is direct representative Of polyg-
amy, born OF Its system and In cordial
sympathy with 1t as divine institution
revealed as law OF primary obligation
and made mandatory by the most solemn
sanctions and has encouraged Its perpet-
uation and practice by his personal infiu-
ence as an apostle. and
Whereas In thus doing this the apostle
senator aids and abets criminals. mem
noes the American people. is unfaithful
to the laws and constitution of the United
States. pays his first allegiance to the
first presidency and apostolate to which
he belongs and is a reproach to the honor
and dignity of the American senate:
therefore,
Resolved, That this assembly most re-
spectfully but earnestly calls upon the peo-
pie of the United States to use their ut
most endeavor. employing all honorable
means, to secure the expulsion Of Apostle
Reed Smoot from the halls of the national
senate and urges the senate itself and
each member thereof to exhaust all legal
means t9 this end eng N accordance with
This ASSEMBLY 'aisso calls upon the people
and congress of the United States IN both
houses and each member of each house to
employ and exhaust all legal means to SEE
cure such an amendment to the federal
constitution as shall define legal marriage
as monogamic and make polygamy under
every guise and practice crime against
the United States, punishable by adequate
penalties. including observation-disclosures
hnd DISQUALIFICATION to vote pr hold Office
in the pnitfd States Of III any state pr ter
ritory under the jurisdiction of the United.
| States. rs
syneIe Jee's" joke, 81
a really good anecdota Is rare.
'Encle Joe" Cannon. the next speaker
OF the house Of representatives, is q
fine raconteur, Evidence of that fact
is given in the following extract from
the New York Times:
''Uncle Joe" Cannon tells OF constitu-
ent of his out in Illinois who has but re-
Gently returned from trip to Europe.
The traveller was proudly relating to an
| admiring group OF fellow townsmen the
incidents of his trip among which were
| visits to Lake Geneva and Leman. where
upon some one interrupted with:
Are not Lakes Geneva and Leman
| synonymous? ~
"That. my dear friend.' said Cannon's
constituent. II know very well, but are
IGou aware that Lake Leman is the more
Synonymous Of the two7'
/ The Foreigners Advantage.
There is at least one item Of our ex-
chhnges with foreign nations OF which
we pay out many times more than we
/ take in. It Is probable that American
tourists spend abroad more than ten
times the amount expended BY foreign
tourists In the United States: This
year our disbursements Of that sort
VIII lie very large. An expert puts the
aggregate at 500, 0eo, 900, q sum that is
as likely to be below as above the ac-
tual. From the single port of New
York there will be sixty seven sailings
of first class steamships for Europe
each month from May to August In
elusive. They will carry approximate
i " 21.5OO cabin passengers a month, or
i SO 600 in the four months Of the season.
Enough tourists will sail earlier or
i Inter, It Is estimated, TO bring the total
i te 12s,0Qa. F9r fheiF passage this
army Of travellers Will pay $31 200, 600:
and for their living ana othep expenses
q good $40, 0O0, 600 more, or a total Of at
least ei00,Q0O, 00Q The fact that for
eigners control most OF the steamship
lines insures the Judgment of the great
er part of the outlay In foreign ex-
ehequers. But this outlay does not
bring the country to the verge of bank
ruptcy. as we usually send abroad sew
eral hundred mlllioas-say, from $780,
O00,O to $500. 600, 900 worth Of goods
in excess OF the cost Of our foreign
purchases.
An Old Acquaintance. Us
There is nothing which cheers one
up more while tabernacling in this vale
OF tears than to run across an old &C
quaintance whom we like. The Wash
ington Post reintroduces Mr.. Spratt ii
this pleasant fashion:
That man Spratt who wants to be mayo,
OF st. Joe. No., ought to be able to clear
the platter II he can get his wife to hell
him.
Imprisonment For Debt.
Imprisonment for debt Is unquestion.
ably q relic Of barbarism-a we'll nigh
tdiotic performance. 1t will surprise
most people to learn that person
may be clapped In Jail in Massachu-
sets for debt In most states 1t Is a
thing improbable. In this regard the
old Bay State, which is supposed to be
the cradle Of liberty. e., FaneuIl
ball IN the o. 3. 8. is -apd to contain
all that Is most progressive and most