Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-10-28

lowed to do SO ad libitum? 1t in no
we might have the proverbial hard luck
of the meddlesome outsider who butts
in when q husband and wife are fight
ing, rash experiment which sane
man makes but once in a lifetime
Russia knows what she wants; Japan
knows what she wants. They both want
the same things-Korea and Manchu-
ria. We surely want neither. 1t is
Of no Importance to us who has either
or both. Our interest in them is pure
" commercial-to sell them something,
and we will sell them about the
same quantity of wares no matter who
comes out on top in the war. Conse-
quently our policy should be, Glands
off," the American Bar association to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Nobody
appointed us universal constables to
roam about and keep the peace of the
world. We have enough to do to keep
the peace among our own people and
in 1.-The territories appurtenant to the
United States" God save the mark!
Why, then, should we voluntarily as
sumo more than our proportion of the
white mans burden?
Certainly the most revolving mani
festation of greed recently witnessed
is that Of the New Jersey firm which
loaded the cork in life preservers with
iron in order to bring them up to the
prescribed weight simply because iron
Is cheaper than cork. For the sake of
humanity it is to be hoped that the
charge is not well founded. If the evil
dence is conclusive there is no pun
ishment that could be meted out to
the wretches that would be too severe.
They are infinitely worse than the
criminal who murders for revenge.
They for a few paltry dollars were i'm
periling the lives of thousands of men,
women and children whom they never
saw. Perhaps there is something in
the theory of total depravity after all.
Press dispatches contain the astound-
ing information that Wisconsin Repub-
licans refused to make arrangements
for Mr. Speaker Cannon to speak in
| that state after the national committee
had made the assignment AS the
speakers personal friend 1 protest
against such an indignity being offered
him. He is most eminent parsonage
and deserves to be treated with copr-
| tesy. What's more, he is a most en-
| PERTAINING speaker. Democrats like to
hear him, for he does them no harm.
| They construe his cantankerous re-
marks entirely Pickwickian. The Wis
consin Republicans should not permit
their bitter fractional fight to lead them
into exhibitions of bad manners.
Hon. Sidney Mudd, Republican rep
resentative in congress from Maryland
J and candidate for reelection, has serv-
ed notice on the Republican bigwigs
that he wants no outside spellbinders
sent into his district and no literature
except such as will circulate in ma
tional banks" In other words, Sidney
! has drawn a dead line about his dis
trict and proposes to run his own cam
paign to suit himself. At any rate, his
/ plan is unique, and the result will be
watched with intense interest by the
rest of mankind who are in any way
interested in anybody's plan Of con-
gressional campaign; but, If his plan
works well, hereafter the national and
congressional campaign committees
will much resemble Othello, for their
occupation will be gone.
This campaign is said to be excep-
tional for apathy, but it must be con-
fessed that it is warming up in the At
lanta district of Georgia, where Colo
mel Leonidas Felix Livingston de-
ponnced his opponent as an infamous
liar, Whereupon those eminent states
men engaged in rough and tumble
fight in the presence of the multitude.
Uncle Lon is one Of the most affable
Of mortals, Georgia Chesterfield in
fact, but he can be "riled'' and eyi-
IDENTIFY was "riled' or he would not
have denounced his rival as liar, es:
pecially as an Infamous liar" though
how any man can be liar without be-
ing Infamous it would be hard to tell
It is generally asserted by Republic
ans that they are certain to carry
West Virginia. Nevertheless the Wash
ington Post is authority for the state.
ment that the West Virginia Republic
an leaders are in great stew about
money. They assert that they need
$147,O0O to carry the state and have
only $4,000, thus being short $51 900
How and where to raise the last men
toned sum are the problems.
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