Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-30
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has figured in a hundred fights to the
| death in law courts and has never or
rarely been worsted. is human. like the
rest of us. lie is cons.derate TO al! those
! around him; sometimes even he Is shy and
timid. It is said that when he rings
/ bell for servant with any Impotence he
: runs out of the room before the servant
has time to appear. And / have often
seen this spirit of almost sardonic mock
cry blush like girl.
The face shows the contradiction of the
character. When first you look at 1t you
/ are conscious only of its mockery. The
| eyes-black, cold, penetrating-are made
! even more quizzically funny by eyebrows
i that twist and turn as though they were
| prepared by some theatrical coiffeur for a
1 baritone about to play Mephistopheles.
But the mouth reveals that other side Of
the spirit 1t reveals the man of iron res
| olution, of inflexible opinions, of enmities
that do not die. Napoleon used to be call
! ed Jupiter-Scapin. / might sum up Labby
as Scapin-Cromwell.
Not For Joseph.
! The Houston Post, in recent edi-
! torial, made this astonishing statement
about Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey
of Texas:
| There is nothing In the rumor about
| Senator Joe Bailey retiring from public
| life and taking up his residence In New
| York. 1t is within the knowledge of the
Post that he was offered position at a
remuneration of $4,000 year or better
! and that he declined it without mo-
ment's hesitation. The senator has no
. idea OF quitting Texas or of retiring from
J public life.
A New Nuisance Proposed.
The disposition of congress to abdi-
cate its constitutional functions by
creating commissions Of all sorts APP
pears to be growing. The latest one
proposed, and the most astounding in
Its character, is the monetary commits
sion! The power and duty of dealing
with all financial questions constitute
the most important functions conferred
upon congress by the trainers of the
government. To basely abandon these
would prove the Fifty-eighth congress
to be the most pusillanimous in history.
1t was bad enough and idiotic enough
to send rowing commission over the
country to discover what the tariff
barons wanted done about the tariff,
but the suggestion for a monetary COM
mission is incredible.
The reason assigned for this amazing
proposition is that it is considered the
best way of settling the differences as
to finance among Republicans. A
Washington dispatch says inter ALA:
The president 1t is well known, has given
more thought to financial questions in the
last six months than to any other sub
ject. He has ascertained that there are
wide CULTS separating the different views
and that 1t will be next to impossible to
reconcile the diversified views and settle
upon any one plan or bill. Consequently
the proposition now is to turn the whole
matter over to commission, whether Of
congress or to be appointed by the presi-
dent from the outside has not been deter
mined. The work of the commission
would be to delve as deeply into condi-
tons as possible and submit recommenda-
tons upon which the various Republican
elements might unite
1 1t is strange and amusing to read of
wide CULTS separating the different
views" Of Republicans when we re-
member all the wild talk there has
been lately about Republican harmony.
with big, big II, and of the irrecon-
cilable differences among Democrats.
If commission can be established
by congress to run our finances why
not put the government into commits
sion, abolish congress and save the cx-
pense? What's the use of paying nine
ty senators and 4sG representatives to
do thing that can be done by one
commission?
New Eruption.
The signs of the times indicate that
a new eruption of the Delaware Re.
publican scandal is at hand 1t smells
to heaven and is the saddest common.
tary extant on "barrel" politics. There
appears to be no way of stopping OF
squelching it. They say that President
Roosevelt is threatening to do some.
Thing truly awful to all of them by
reason Of this newest outbreak. He
will deserve the thanks of all decent
pen if he does. But will be? Can he?
Is the thing possible so long as the Ad-
dicks bank account holds out? 1t
seems not. But Mr.. Roosevelt as the
chief apostle Of Republican purity and
light should be encouraged to try.
Perilous.
The New York World is great
newspaper and has tackled many diff
acult questions and settled many Of
them. but 1t has committed itself to a
perilous performance in adjusting "the
servant girl problem" the most seri-
BUS one of our times. 1t speaks Of 1t
IN this jaunty, not to say hippant, man
per:
Responsibility for the vexing scarcity
pf house servants has at last been fixed
definitely and officially. In its quarterly
bulletin the state department of labor de-
clares unhesitatingly that prosperity is to
blame. Good times have so increased the
numbers OF the servant keeping class that
the demand for household help has run
greatly beyond the supply.
This explanation Of a leading domestic
difficulty of the day will come as severe
setback to sociaFstudents who have been
tracing the trouble to considerations Of
fraternity, equality. individual privilege
and the like. But In setting these back II
brings no comfort to worried housewives
The chief effect of the official message OF
the department is to add a new force tc
the old question. Is prosperity an unmix-
ed good?
Scoffers at the proposition of ideal so.
eialism have been wont to clinch their
"argument to the person" by inquirine
with cutting force. when all men are OF
equal state and standing, who then will
dig the ditches?" 1t is proper. In view OF
the pronunciamento from Albany. tc
adapt this query to a new hypothesis
When diffused prosperity has brought all
the households of the universe to the leve
pf the servant keeper. who then shall