Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-06

fine figure that sprung full armed from
brain Tor Bacon's), none
other than II;.::;lct. prince of Denmark.
People wonder why the Danes should
thus seek to lenor the memory of one
who never trod their soil, who was ut
best created of the bluest sky and the
thinnest air, Il creature of the poets
pen and the actors fancy, and who
was made to say things not compll-
mentary to the land where for a stage
hour lie was Il prince and lived and
suffered and met his fathers ghost, as
good princes sometimes do. though the
ghost often comes in the "shape alb
horred" of one of the old mans credit
ors.
Hamlet is the mouthpiece for the
words, "There's something rotten in
the state of Denmark An American
would hardly erect statue to such a
slanderer of his country, but perhaps
the Danes are well supplied with
bronze and have but few heroic char
acters to counterfeit and place upon a
pedestal.
Several years ago the Hon. Wallace
]. Davis, representative of Missouri's
great county of Pike in the state leg
islature, introduced a bill to appropri-
ate money to erect a statue to Joe Bow
ers, the hero of a song that has been
sung for half n century by Missourians
everywhere, having its beginning in
the days when thousands of young
Missourians became argonauts and left
their homes in search of the golden
fleece, going to California in streams
by land and sea. Many laughed Mt the
idea, for it has never been thoroughly
demonstrated that Joe Bowers ever
lived. But Joe Bowers stands for a
sentiment dear to the hearts of every
native son of Missouri, and, like John
Browns soul, it goes marching on.
Missouri has been mother to the
great west and has peopled it to the
tune of Joe Bowers and has yet had
time and strength and resource to
grow strong and great Mt home. and
one Of these days she will make bare
her patriot arm of power" and place n
Missouri Democrat in the White House
while the bands play "Joe Bowers"
Then, have no doubt, every fellow
who wants a fat appointment will go
mouthing about the country proposing
to erect statue to Joe Bowers.
Democratic Prospects.
Daily the outlook for Democratic sue
cess grows brighter. There has been
no political happening in several
months past that does not contribute
to the strength of the Democrats and
to the undoing OF the Republicans.
Chief among these events we might
mention:
First.-The Booker Washington Incl
dent.
sccond.-The scandals in the depart
ments.
Third. The unearthing of the mass
of official corruption among st. Louis
Republican ofhceholders.
Fourth.-The unearthing of corrup.
ton in nearly all the Republican cities
of the country.
Fifth.-The fact that the only effec-
tive Doodle fighting has been done by
Missouri Democratic prosecutors, Fo!li
and Grow.
slxth.-rle Miller case in the govern
ment printing office.
Graft" seems to be the watchword
Of the Republican ofhceholder. II all
the facts We're known not single bu
reau of any department III Washington
would be found entirely free from it
a thorough cleaning out is needed, ant
1t will be hard to convince an intelli
gent man that the party under which
the system originated is the proper one
to eXterminate it.
SANDER Of Missouri.
Since first | began to cogitate upol
men and matters many diverse prob
lens have come within the range of my
speculation and my wonderment
have wondered much at many things
have speculated on cause and efec1
in a thousand instances, but no eff
feet that ever presented itself to my
estonished and incredulous gaze has
seemed to have as little real cause
and as little real foundation in fact o.
truth as the bad name of Missouri II
the mouths of the people of certain
other states. have reached the con
clusion that a false estimate Of q PEG
pie must rest on one or both OF two
bases = namely. Ignorance and preiu
dice. l. live in u town In Missouri
whore dlsorderly conduct or offense
OF any sort against town ordinance o
state law are exceedingly rare, Amos
nothing of the kind being known
where no man has need for locks OF
his doors, where such thing as a. tow
bully Is unknown, where life and prop
erty are as safe as when. in the reigl
Of Tamerlane, 1t was said that "a boy
could travel from the east to the ives
in Asia with a bag OF gold and with
put fear" The same is true of almos
all communities in Missouri. and til,
characteristics of the Missouri town
are SO plainly manifest to the land buy
ers who have been entering the stat
in an increasing stream from Illinois
Indiana and Iowa that a result is be
Ing. seen in the increased confidenc
shown by these people. They buy lam
and go back home to pack up their be
longings. That trip home is mis-
sionary trip. for they bring others wit
them.
The Globe Democrat tried to show 4
a recent editorial that lands In Mis-
souri, IRE much cheaper than simila
lands in Illinois. Unwittingly 1t 70
once did something to help adyertis