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

communities where It Is the custom to
point TIE finger Of scorll ut 'poor old
Nissorriy .lye. aud on that same $l3
we have paid off ss45.o0o.O0o of debt
handed down to us by the .carpet,ag-
Eers.
Paying off TINT debt wetld seem
equal to the seven labors OF Hercules.
l:ut Missouri, under Democratic ofIi
GERS, has cleaned mp the last dollar of
IT ana burned Tic last bond without
turning a hair or repudiating II do!.ar
If those debts. for which She and her
people received no benefit.
II was told that in Arkansas the car
petbagrors found $4,000 in the school
lind. They paid out $4,000 of 1t in
various ways and concluded the re.
..sss.nslrr didi't n;.o"nt to much, any
,Hay. 50 Toy Jus, Divided 1t among
t',sE.sc!,;m'.. But That was not cir
c.rtst:nr to what tEry DID in US
:a.u.i. where it is not stretching ne
t-'..., ia say they rave away STATE
railroads to Themselves and Their
t-icr;.s
Old Jerry E;ia,k of rcnnsy'van,a
fave an in...rti,!sat against them tia!
is H.or.!.y CT !; Place in tho r,inG ct
every lover of honesty in politics anf'
of sincerely representative govern
mcnt. He said. "rhcy did that wlic.,
The Gotls and tie Nandals cor'd no.
do. for they reached their long facc.s
into the future and stole the labor OF
generations yet Unborn"
But the carr,etlag. er, having fed
long since or died OF having be"H
banged. can no longer steal bonds and
securities. However. there are tlias
left who would even fitch this states
| reputation.
The Extra s.ssion.
IT'S Gone. The extra session is called
PRESIDENT i.ooscycl: WIZ, like the mas:
WHO, having inadvertently asserted
lat the har.sa was seventeen feet li;.,i
s',ck to it. The president. having &c
N!arc,! lie would convene congress iii
| extraordinary session. has kept lis
To,tl DESPITE tho protests OF many par
: leaders ana managers. Tic c:,l!
pcriiies Cuban reciprocity as the mat
.cr to be especially considered. He
may be forced to remember the old
saying. You cam lead horse to the
water. hut you cannot make him drink. I"
The house III the Fifty-sevcrth con.
grcss played everlasting smash with
Cuban reciprocity. 1t may do soagain
L so. how will the extra session help
i the Republicans? That's the primary
thought in calling the extra session
to bolster up. il possible, the waning
fortunes of tie q. @. r. But the
chances are that instead of being help
ed by it they will be hurt by it-per-
haps wounded past all surgery. to Dor
row. Il phrase from the Bard of Avon
Things are not going well with the G.
O.. P. That Republican rout at Indi-
annapolis was an eye opener to the aver
age citizen, particularly the average
Republican WHO has been laying the
flattering JUNCTION to his soul that the
G. o. T. has the world by the tail with
a downhill pull. indianapolis simply
leads the revolt; that's all.
Republican Prosperity"
Signs of that Republican prosper
lity" of which we have heard SO much
are multiplying all around US. When
the bottom dropped out of Steel stocks
and industrials we were told that Wall
street gamblers We're playing a game
a fine gamc-and that they would soon
put them up again. but they are still
| ut the Nadir.
Surely the Wall street gamblers did
not "bust' the great trust companies
in Baltimore, make the run on great
bank in Pittsburg, close another great
bank in San Francisco and throw 90
900 men out of employment in Mon
tana. These and other similar things
must be charged up to Republican
prosperity.
More Republican Prosperity.
The following dispatch illustrates the
beauties Of Republican prosperity"
"CambrIdge. O.. Oct 23.-Orders have
been received from headquarters of the
American Sheet Steel company to shut
down Cambridge works Saturday In.
definitely. This, with the tin mill being
lille, throws 1000 men out of work"
Growing Less.
Hon. Eugene +. Ware, commissioner
Of pensions. asks for $1.7OO,OO0 less fol
the fiscal year beginning June 30. 1904
than was appropriated for the present
fiscal year. That indicates that the
turn has come. It is small reduction
1t is true, but reduction nevertheless
He estimates that the increases here
after from new pensions and from
raising pensions will not equal the re
auctions caused by death.
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