Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-23

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~ in Oklahoma and the Indian
n Territory. Things down there
are in bad fix and should be
Strengthened out. Statehood is what is
needed-single or double-anything but
the anomalous condition existing.
ct Tu, Brutel
For some five or six years the lingo
organ grinders have denounced as pes
Bimists, calamity howlers, idiots, trail
tors, little Americans and other pet
names all those who doubted that all
the stupendous gambling transactions
Of j. Pierpont Morgan, the steel trust
nagnates and others Of that ilk We're
lndubitable evidences Of prosperity,
shared in by every person betwixt the
two oceans. The st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat has been very prodigal in the use
Of the foregoing offensive eplthets, to
which it Is fond Of adding that of
"Copperhead," word now obsolete in
the vocabulary of every respectable
paper in the land. Consequently Mr..
Morgan and his partners, satellites,
imitators and claqueur will be greatly
astonished when they read this edito-
rial squib from the Globe-Democrat,
which is evidently mild thrust at
them: ''The country will be none the
poorer for the abatement of the wild
talk about hundreds of millions that
promoters cultivate in their minds"
Query: If the country is none the
poorer now by reason of "the abate-
ment of the wild talk" how does it
happen that few weeks ago we were
required by such lingo organs as the
CD. to regard such wild talk" as
proof positive Of unprecedented pros
perity or run the risk Of being abused
like pickpockets? When the Wall street
confidence men caused stocks which
had never paid dividend to sell above
par sane persons knew that lambs We're
being fleeced, honest but foolish in
vestors were being beggared and wild
ows were being robbed, but If sanity
asserted itself or raised warning
voice the cry went up Of "Pessimist!
Calamity bowler! Copperhead!" There
is no sense in saying that these huge
gambling transactions on Wall street
do not affect legitimate business adj
versely, for they do, and every well
Informed man knows 1t.
Killing OFF Democratic Candidates.
1t is related that just prior to March
4, 1871, when Daniel Webster appeared
for dinner after day spent in revising
the inaugural address of the elder uar
rison; which was overloaded with ref
erences to ancient history, his landlady
said, "Mr. Webster, you look wearied,"
whereupon "the godlike Daniel" re-
piled, Madam, if you knew how many
Roman generals and consuls have
killed in the last few hours you would
not wonder that am weary"
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat kills
Democratic presidential candidates
with the same sang froid as that with
which "the great expounder" disposed
of the Romans of "Old Tippecanoe."
In fact, the CD. appears to have APP
pointed itself official headsman for
Democratic presidential candidates and
works them off" with neatness and
dispatch. 1t must be admitted that
even IN. de Paris" does not perform
his function with more relish. The
latest victim of the G.-D.'s guillotine
Is Hon. Richard Olney Of Boston, ex-
attorney general and ex-secretary of
state. Olney's crime is that he had the
temerity to be born in 1885, which will
make him seventy years old in 1905
when Colonel Roosevelts successor
will be inaugurated! Now, submit to
a candid world that Mr.. Olney is not
to be blamed for that. A witty Irish
man once declared that he could have
been born in America as well as in
Ireland if he had so wished, but while
Mr.. Olney is Of Irish extraction and
has both the Hibernian caste Of coun-
tenance and love for scrap, he was
not SO fortunately situated. If he had
his way he would probably be sixty or
fifty or even twenty instead of three
score and ten. Therefore the CD
ought to- be merciful to the illustrious
Bostonese statesman whom the CD.
certifies to be "a very respectable per-
sonage morally, socially and iateilao-
tually." Mr.. Olney ought to cut that
compliment from the CD. and paste
it in his scrapbook to compare 1t with
| what it will say of him should he be
noqipated.
The 4.-D. passes sentence of presl-
Dental death ON Mr.. Qlney because he
will be two years older On March 4,
1905, than William Henry HARRISON
was on March 4, 1S41. Harrison was
the Oldest incoming president that
the United States has had, and he lived
only month after taking Office. Tay-
lor. who was sixty-aEe years Of age
at the time of his Inauguration, lived
only year and a third after entering
the White House.
Some "old" Men.
/ The trouble with the G.-D.'s theory
is that it deduces general rule from
too few instances. "One swallow does
not make summer" and the fact that
Generals Harrison and Taylor died in
the White House does not prove that
no man at seventy is likely to live
through term as president. If Gen
eral Harrison had not persisted in do
Ing his own marketing, and that, too,
without wearing an overcoat, and had
not been caught in cold March rain
storm, he probably would have served
out his four years, and If General Tay-
lor after becoming superheated by sit
ding bareheaded for hours in broiling
| Fourth of July sun had not imprudent-
y gorged himself with cherries and
ICED buttermilk the chances are that