Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-25
Especial washington Letter.

TT 49, VS - S1
Especial Washington letter.
TSHOSE gentlemen who go about
vociferating that a Republican
/ victory next year is as sure as
death or taxes are simply wills
Ting to keep their courage up. No sane
man believes any such stuff. The Re.
publicans may win, but when the polls
close they will know that they have
been in fight-the fight of their lives
Every time there is an election they
lose something. For instance, last week
General Patrick A. Collins, Democrat,
was reelected mayor Of Boston by
more than 10000 majority, the largest
ever. Both branches of the city council
are decidedly Democratic, and the
Democrats now control the Hub in all
departments. That is only Il straw
showing which way the wind blows.
The Democrats in congress. ir both
house and senate, are working together
for good, and more tremendously than
at any time since 1892. AT both ends
of the capitol caucus action has been
made binding-in the house by ma.
iority, in the senate by a two-thirds
majority-and that will give strength
to the party. 1t means that we are
once more to have somewhat OF disci-
pline in our ranks, a thing sadly needed
for, 10, these many years. All in all,
Democrats are in a frame of mind to
enjoy a really merry Christmas.
Too Bad.
After all the blaviating done by Re
publican spellbinders as to the pros
perity creating qualities of the blessed
Dingley tariff bill it turns out that il
is deficiency producer instead of a
revenue producer. The truth is gradu-
ally coming out. 1t can't be concealed
any longer, and the truth is that there
are breakers ahead for the government
One of two things must happen-eX-
penses must be curtailed or federal
taxes increased. Republicans cannot
curtail expenses. Therefore they viii
give the thumbscrews another turn and
increase taxes. That's not what Hon
Leslie NJ. Shaw says in words, but
that's what he says in substance. IL
his latest report lie says that the sur
plus for this fiscal year ending June
30, 1904, will be only $14,O00,OOO, dis
tressingly small when compared will
the vast volume of our receipts anG
expenditures. For the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1905, he estimates that in
stead of surplus a small one
there will be deficit of $23,002, l46
Now, let the readers hereof rccollect
that the foregoing figures were made
and the foregoing conclusions arrived
at not by wild eyed Populist or al
anarchistic Democrat, but by great
and good Republican, secretary of thu
treasury from Iowa, stronghold OF
Republlcanism. Therefore Republicans
cannot with straight face deny them
hence it is clear as the sun that thu
much yaunted Dingley tariff bill is ,
deficiency producer. It has for 81,
years increased by % to so per cen
the cost of living to the average Amer
lean citizen, but while doing so is fail
ing to produce enough revenue to pa,
the expenses Of the government. Not
withstanding these facts. Republican
ora TORS in the coming campaign will
brag as loudly ms ever about how til
blessed Dingley tariff bill filed the ma
tional Golfers to overlooking with tn
coin of the realm.
OF course even with the dwindlin
revenues produced by the Dingley bill
both ends could be made to meet b,
cutting down expenses-a Performance
impossible Of achievement by Repuh
licans. The only way tG retrcnch OK
penditures is to turn the Republican
out and to put the Democrats in.
Consistency.
We are informed on high authorit,
that CONSISTENCY is rare jewell TIL
truth of which dictum is illustrated
every day. Not long since, the Unio,
League club Of New Y1rk spent ii,
evening formulating resolutions ant
debating and passing them expressin.
their profound horror at the way til,
colored man and brother is maltreatet
and Disseminated against away dowI
south in Dixie. No doubt the Uniol
Leaguers are superior mortals ant
mean well, but then we also have it OF
high authority that that PLACE not fl
to be mentioned to ears polite lis payef
with good Intentions" Tho UnioI
Leaguers should heed the monitor
about removing the beam from theil
pwn eye before attempting surglca
operation on their neighbors' optics
Human nature is just about the same
the wide word over. Under certain
conditions the Union I,eaguers woult
be doing the Identical things Whicl
they now condemn In others.
1t SO happened, to the shame, con
fusion and, let us hope, the enlighten
ment of the:Solar Walk and Milky Way
stat esmen who compose the aforesaid
Union League, that in the same issue o
the New York Herald which contained
an account Of the rssalnting and spell
binding done by the Union Leaguer
against race discrimination in the soutl
there also appeared the following &C
count OF trouble in New England b.
reason OF the same race prejudic'
lagainst which the Union Leaguers wer,
resoluting and splitting the WelkiR:
Because the school committee In tn
Plain district in Sheffield village. in Mas
sachpsetts. has engaged Miss Cora Fow
Ter. negro. to teach that school. just open
ed. and has ordered "all children o
school age, below the fifth grade, residing
on the Plain and in New Guinea. to at
tend the Plain school," race war hal
| broken out there -,