Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-06
Following from the Baltimore Sun will
undoubtedly be of interest to the read

following from the Baltimore Sun will
undoubtedly be Of interest to the read
ers of these letters:'F
There is a marked difference in quota
lions of senate seats in Alabama and in
some other states, such, for example as
Montana and Delaware. The Hon. Ed
mund w. Pettus has reported that the en-
tire cost of his recent election to the SEN
ate in Alabama was the sum OF II. Such
sum for such an Office is doubtless re-
xarded with scornful wonder by Blue
Hens Chickens and Others and the meth
cd of expanding this campaign fund by
the venerable senator from Alabama was
as remarkable as the amount itself. 1t
was not expended for highballs or even
beer, but went to the secretary of state
in Alabama to pay the legal fee for GER
tificate. This was a case where the Office
sought the man.
Debt In Perpetuity.
Is Ex-Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw, secre
tary Of the treasury, in favor of per-
petuating the public debt? l would do
no man wrong or impute to him opin-
ions which he does not entertain, but
certain of Mr.. Shaw's recent utterances
indicate that he is becoming an advo-
cate of the English idea of a perpetual
debt and to believe in the English doc
trine, "a public debt is public bless
ing" Everybody knows that the pres
ent national banking system was de-
vised primarily to furnish market for
our bonds issued during the civil war,
the national bank currency being based
on the bonds. The law authorizing
and compelling that performance, talk
en- In connection with the law taxing
notes issued by state banks 10 per cent,
turned the whole financial system over
to the national banks, giving them q
monopoly OH the paper money system
Of the country, monopoly which they
are loath to relinquish. Speaking on
this subject, Secretary Shaw says:
The frequent purchase and retirement
of bonds render the amount available for
circulation gradually less, while rapidly
growing population, additional banking
facilities and expanding trade suggest the
need of an ever increasing circulation. 1
therefore believe the time has arrived
when 1t will be necessary to adopt one of
two policies-either the government debt
must be perpetuated as basis for ma
tional bank circulation and additional
bonds issued as occasion may require or
, some other system must be provided.
OF course 'the other system" limited
at is the asset currency scheme advo-
| Gated by Mr.. Fowler in the Fowler
bill.
Pretty Much the Same.
Republicans up north have a great
on the negroes by the southern people.
The following extract from the Times
! of Bowling Green, Mo-, goes to show
! that human nature is very much the
same up north as down south;
! A bill was introduced in the Wisconsin
! legislature last week which. If adopted as
! q law, will prevent marriages between ne
/ groes and white persons In that state.
/ The author of the bill Is Republican,
but he made the following comments upon
the bill and the intermarriage of negroes
and white people: Every one of sound
| judgment knows that white persons and
| negroes should not be allowed to inter-
| marry. The results of such violations of
| natural laws are deplorabe from every
| point of view. Experience has shown that
| such alliances tend in almost every in
| stance to debase and degrade the natures
Of both parties to the contract and result
| in hybrid progeny that usually has no
| social standing with either whites or ne
| groes. In my opinion. the greatest mis-
fortune arising from such marriages falls
on the children, who, when they reach
years Of understanding and and they
4 have no social standing with either race
frequently plunge from responsibility tc
degradation of the lowest character II
seems to me we owe it to both races te
prevent such marriages. do not blame
the negro SO much as do the white per
| son involved in such marriages. 1t is inn
possible for me to conceive how high
minded, intelligent white woman can be-
come party to such marriage, and it is
usually white woman. not white man,
| who contracts such an alliance. A white
man may be ever SO degraded, but the
thought of marriage with negress is
most revolving to him. 1t seems to me
that 1t IL right and proper for the law to
step in and prevent white women from
committing these isreparable mistakes"
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