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forgotten that it do GO heavily

forgotten that it do go heavily to
Cleveland in 1892. Cannon has pop
lar personality, and it is clear that he
fits the situation better than anyone
else. He is determined not to take
it, and other men have resolved and
said so and felt compelled to accept.
John A. Logan is a conspicuous in
stance and Theodore Roosevelt an
other.
But, however it may be with Cannon,
it is probable that Senator Fairbanks
may be counted out. He has never
sought the nomination and while he at
one time accepted passively receptive
position, on the theory that he must
yield his own preferences to the will of
the party, he can scarcely do that in
the future. Indeed, it is a serious
question whether any man of import
ance will want to take the place if
Cannon is allowed to throw it over his
shoulder. Secretary Shaw is frequent
w mentioned, but says he will not
have it. If cannon may persist in a
ueclination, why not he? And what
class of man will finally accept after ii
has been contemptuously refused by
Cannon, Fairbanks. Shaw, etc? That
is another consideration to be weighed
in dealing with Cannon's declination.
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WELL DONE, WESTERN UNION

Philadelphia Press.--The Western
Union company has done well. 1t
deserves praise. 1t has lost revenue
in order to do right
All the pool room wires are cut. All
telegraph superintendent are ordered
form New York to suspend the pool
room service in all cities. This cuts
up race track gambling from the roots.
The small races are run for gambling
nothing else. Driven out of the
northern states--last from New Jer-
sey-they have gone west and south.
These races are run at Washington.
Chicago, st. Louis, Louisville and
New Orleans-now at one and now at
another.
They have no local end. They meet
no local demand. Their sole support
is the pool room. They exist for
gambling. Gambling exists through
them. The races live on the pool
rooms. The pool rooms live on the
gambling of errand boys, mechanics,
clarks, small storekeepers, foolish wo-
men, oilers and gamblers.
All these play the races" The
races, can be played only because
the Western Union reports them. The
work is lucrative. 1t brings big mon
ey. The Western Union has stopped
it, A leak may be left. Time will
show. The company may officially
STOP THESE BaHlpIiuB dispatches. SUI
perintendents and subordinates may
keep on.
No one can tell just yet. But it is
clear that the Western Union has
taken the first step. 1t deserves high
praise for taking it. Once taken, it
must never be retraced. This help
for gambling must stop for all time.
When congress meets this good
resolution must be made permanent by
penal statute. Such a law was pro-
posed by Representative Gillett, of
Massachusetts,. 1t prohibited tele-
graph or telephone companies from
aiding gambling under fine and inn
prisonment This bill must be passed
next winter.
Rivet the good resolution of West
ern Union with a statute
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THE 1904 ISSUE.

Much has been said during the past
few months about what the issue of
the 1904 campaign would be. Time and
again during the recent session of con-
gress did the democratic members of
that body line up on what they deem
ed would make a profitable issue on
which to wage the political battles Of
this presidential canvass and as many
times were their hopes shattered by
the public expression of satisfaction
with the manner in which the repub-
lican administration was handling the
important questions of the national
government. But of all that has been
said on this subject ''Uncle Joe' Can
non in his recent address before the
delegates to the Illinois republican
convention probably came the nearest
to hitting the tack that will be taken
by the democrats during the next few
months. He declared that the efforts
of the democratic spellbinders will be
to convince the people of the United
States that they are not really pros
porous; that in order to experience
better times it will be their duty to
change the policies now in force, in
the national government. Some COM
parsons made in his address are ex-
ceedingly pertinent and we'll worth re-
peating. He said:
Some people say we are growing
poor - oh, am old enough and SEN
ator Cullom, to recollect that one pair
of shoes made by crossroads shoe
maker upon last on which he made
all the shoes for boys, and when you
wore them they were worse than the
tortures of the inquisition until they
were almost worn out - old enough
to recollect what life was when one
suit Of butternut that was woven by
our mothers and cut and made by
them was ample clothing for a healthy
boy of 10 to IL for twelve long
months.
Il am old enough to recollect and
they were good old times - when hog
and hominy, corn bread and New Or
leans molasses for luxury, was the
diet the year in and year out. am
old enough to recollect the time for
amusement was once year, to Van
Amberg's highly moral show, and call
ourselves fortunate. Admission for
adults was 25 cents; children a stick
Bit which was 125a cents.
Back in those times do you know
how rich we were? There were less
than 3O,OOO,0OO of us. and in round
numbers the wealth Of the country,
all told, was measured by $500 to each
individual Do you know what we are
worth now? In these days the man
that lives by the sweat of his brow
and eats by virtue of his days labor
has house and furniture and carpets
such as Senator Cullom and never
saw until after we were Is years old.
The average wealth in 1900 to every
inhabitant Of almost s0,000,0OO was
$1,235 to every individual and yet
there are people that stand around the
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street corners and swear that we are
having devil of hard time"
1t might be mentioned that the times
OF which Uncle Joe" speaks are those
SO often spoken, of as "the good old
democratic days" Not until the or
ganization of the republican party and
its coming into power did the laboring
people begin to receive the rewards in
keeping with the progress of the coun-
try. Nearly fifty years of democratic
rule eliminated in the administration
of President Buchanan, the last of his
party to occupy the presidential chair
until Mr.. Cleveland was elected. OF
the conditions which existed during
his administration President Buchanan
in one of his last messages to congress
spoke as follows:
With all the elements of national
wealth in abundance, our manufactures
We're suspended, our useful public and
private enterprises were arrested, and
thousands of people were deprived of
employment and reduced to want Uni
versal distress prevailed among the
commercial, manufacturing and me-
chanical classes
In this extract we see portrayed the
plight in which the American people
found them selves after many years OF
democratic rule. It is confession of
a democratic president to the lack of
wisdom in the policies of the party and
the inefticiency to meet the demands
of the country. During the first Cleve-
land campaign the democrats plead
with the people to return to democratic
rule that ''the times might be improv-
ed" Cleveland was elected and what
followed. BY the end of his term in
the white house the words of Presi-
dent Buchanan quoted above applied
to the conditions existing in the coun-
try. All that Buchanan said and more
too was true Of the Industrial, COM
mercial and economic conditions.
And now as 'Uncle joe says the
the democrats are going to come be-
fore the people of the United States,
disregard the results of former trials
of democratic administration and at
tempt to convince them that in order
to secure continued prosperity the ma
ton should return to the policies of
the democratic party. This then is the
question that the American people will
have to solve when they go to the
polls next November-will they return
to the conditions and disasters that
prevailed in 1S93-97 or will they decide
to retain for themselves and the coun-
try the present prosperous conditions?
1t is not difficult to forecast their YER
dict
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mo REDUCTION OF REVENUE
nESlREDU

The Burlington Hawk-Eye takes the
wise stand that no reduction of the
revenue of the United States govern
ment is wanted at this time. 1t pre-
sents arguments showing the evil ef-
fects that might arise from reduc-
ton of the governments income at
this time and exposes the clamor that
is alleged to come from the people to
be only the outcries of politicians seek
ing their own personal preferment. 1t
says on this subject:
In all discussion of the tariff the
primary fact should be kept in mind
that the first and chief purpose Of a
tariff is to produce revenue to support
the general government. When demo-
Gratis propose E'a general reduction of
the tariff" they mean a reduction of
the governments income. That means
a cessation of the annual reduction of
the public debt; it means decrease
in public improvements, and it may
mean a shortage in the pension fund
and a menace to the national credit
and a peril to the currency of the
country.
With the Panama canal under con-
struction at an enormous expenditure;
WITH puDllC UulluluSS AGSuOu III uu1-
dreds of cities and towns; with har-
bors to be deepened and improved and
coast defenses to build for the national
safety; with an enlarged navy in de-
mand and irrigation projects and 9th
er most commendable enterprises
awaiting national effort this is not the
right time to undertake reduction Of
the public revenues.
And it is not the great body of the
people who are demanding reduction.
The clamor comes from the politicians
who are seeking an issue that will re-
move them from the unwelcome posi-
ton of "the outs" to the more com
forting situation of "the ms"
During the past administration the
revenue of the government has been
reduced many millions of dollars while
the expenses have not only held their
own but greatly increased. 1t is evil
dent to anyone who has looked into
this matter that the position of the
Hawk-Eye is the wise course to pur-
sue. 1t is safe to assume that the
American will stand pat by the present
revenue and in favor of continuing the
present policy of government improve
ment
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THE TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS.

Notwithstanding the practical de-
monstrations to the contrary Iowa
democrats in the platform recently
adopted declared that the protective
tariff is the mother of trusts" When
the great coal strike of 1902 threaten
ed to bring upon this country fuel
famine this statement was especially
emphasized. Then was it charged that
the tariff upon bituminous coal was re-
sponsible for the growth of the coal
combine. Congress proceeded to re-
move what tariff there had been inn
posed on certain kinds of coal and this
product for year was allowed to
come into the United States from all
parts of the world free. Had the
reasoning shown in the above declar-
alton of the Iowa democrats been cor
rest, this removal of the tariff ought
not only to have caused a reduction
in the price of coal but have disrupt
ed the coal combine. The first men
toned effect would have been notice
able in the New England cities and
those along the Canadian border if
any place. But how did it work? Was
there any lessening in the price of
SOul. SlIlCl Ill llloSC uCoA
to the Canadian border or far remov-
ed therefrom? Not at all. Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts has pointed
out in a recent speech that the price
of coal in Boston remained the same.
Consumers in that city were not help
ed penny by the removal of the tar
iff on coal, neither was any advantage
noticed in other communities. The
fact of the matter is that when the du-
ty on coal was removed the price of
that product for shipment on the other
side was marked up correspondingly.
American customers made nothing by
the change, the benefit accruing to the
producers in other countries. At the
end of the year the duty on coal again
became operative without increasing
the price of coal to the American con-
sumers.
At the time of the coal strike had
the duty on coal not been removed
there would doubtless have been a
much greater cry about the "robber
tariff" and it's being the parent of the
trusts. Statistics would doubtless have
been showered upon the country at
tempting to show that the tariff was
the mainstay of the trusts and that
free coal would cure whatever ills
there were. Iowa democrats have
again taken up this cry. 1t will no
doubt be used by democratic speakers
in the campaign this fall. People who
have studied this question will let it
go for the wild rant that it is. 1t has
not the least ground for substantiation
when it comes down to the facts in
the case.
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OF course, it has not been necessary
for the Roosevelt men to keep track
of the states instructed for him. The
instructions are the merest matter of
form. The country is for the re-elec-
ton of the man who tried to do his
whole duty Whine president. If man
like Roosevelt could not be elected in
this country, there would seem to be
little enough hope for duty-doing ex-
ecutive.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
The fact is that instructions or no
instructions republicans Of the United
States want Theodore Roosevelt nom.
mated for the presidency and how
can delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton do otherwise than carry out their
wishes?
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WHICH BOY WAS THE WISER?

farmer; residing in Wisconsin had
two sons. He was q well-to-d do, pro-
gressive man, and gave them both a
good high school education, and urged
them both to stay on the farm He
offered to send them to an agricultural
college. The eldest took up with his
fathers idea, and commenced at once,
by all that lay in him, to make q we'll
posted, scientific farmer of himself.
The other boy said. II want no farming
in mine" He could get $40 a month
clerking in a store in a neighboring
city. He turned his back on the larg-
er, broader, more dignified life of a
well educated farmer, to make a soft
handed counterjumper of himself. He
was susceptible, and the town girls
would like him a good deal better if he
was a clerk than they would if he was
a farmer.
Time went on and worked out the
logic Of the situation, for both these
young men,. The Oldest is today draw
ing salary of 81 400 year and his ex-
penses as manager of a fine dairy farm
of 400 acres with 100 cows. His pros
poets are growing brighter and broader
every day, whether he works for some
one else or concludes TO go to farming
for himself.
The youngest son is still a clerk, now
getting $700 year and paying his own
expenses. He knows but little if any
more than when he first began this
work three years ago. The sharp con-
trast of his own and his brothers for
tune and prospects has broken in upon
his soft handed conceit and vanity a
little. A short time since While visit
ing at the parental home he reproached
his father for not compelling him to
take the same course the elder brother
did. All the kings oxen, however,
could not have held him back, for he
could get $40 a month in a store, and
have no dirty work to do"
Young men stand at the small end
of the pyramid. 1t is hard to calcu-
late the breadth of the farther end. or
the base, from that standpoint and so
some of them prefer to stay at the
small end all through life. The same
principle applies on the farm. Every
boy has the chance to choose whether
he will make a first-class, intelligent
farmer of himself or one of the other
kind.-Hoard's Dairyman.
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MR.. cANNoNs DEcLINATIoN.

George z. Roberts in the Fort Dodge
Messenger.-Washin Is much in
terested in the attitude of Uncle Joe"
running rife here for some time, and
it is recognized that he is as peculiar
sly the man for the choice as Roosevelt
was four years ago. The democrats
cannot win without Illinois; while the
latter is republican state, it is I'M
ouestionably true that it now stands
next to New York in political import
ance. Like New York state, it has a
great city which is factor more or
less uncertain. The vote of Chicago
is so heavy that it is quite possible for
it to. swing the state, and it is not to be
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tive. in congress if indeed they could
be prevailed upon to do so. Major
Lacey will be renominated at the CON
gressional convention here in June
and reelected at the polls next Novem-
Der to continue his work at Washing
ton.
If Major Lacey should want to be
governor of Iowa he will have the most
enthusiastic support from the people
of the sixth district. No man in Iowa
could better or more ably fill that po-
sition. But the sixth district will wait
to hear from Major Lacey himself be.
fore suggesting him for the governor.
ship.
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the party they start the apnIanse
They fill other men with enthusiasm.
Men who are always thinking about
what they would like to hove Changed
IN republican doctrines always go away
from republican meetings criticising
instead of cheering. The republican
party has had enough critics. What
lt needs is believers. The Iowa repub-
mean may or may not be ratified by the
national convention at Chicago. IN
TACT 1t may not be presented there.
But at this time the Iowa platform UNI
doubtedly represents the majority re-
publican sentiment Of Iowa.
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METHoDIsTs AND THEIR
BISHOPS.

Lincoln Journal.-The big majority
cast on the secret ballot in the Metho-
dist general conference for the retire.
ment Of all the bishops past 70 years
is perhaps partially explained by the
fact that in the first ballot to fiji va
cancies there appeared to be 100 cam
didates The retired bishops, however,
are tolerably we'll provided for as they
draw half pay to the amount of $500
a year for the remainder of their days.
They also get full pay for six months
after the date of retirement
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HERE'S THEIR CHANCE.

Des Moines Register and Leader
Marconi has made it possible for news
papers to be issued every day on board
transatlantic steamers. Such noted
editors as William j. Bryan and Will
liam r. Hearst who have been at sea
SO much lately should take advantage
of the opportunity at once.
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ONE EVIL OF VAST WEALTH.

Springfield Republican. John D.
Rockefeller has been telling his sons
Sunday school class in New York how
he got his money-part of it. This is
one of the evils of this particular great
fortune, that it is forever being drag
ged into church, clothed in white raj
ment and halo and made to sermons
ize on it's own beatitudes.
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fifty years Mr.. Norton has been contin-
uously engaged in large mercantile and
financial affairs, besides filling the
offices of minister to France, vice pres
ident of the United States during Cen
eral Harrison's administration, and
governor Of New York. He is one of
the highly esteemed men of the mep-
tropolis and country.
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. There has been considerable discus
sion going the rounds of the press re-
Gently concerning the poem of John
]. ingalls, entitled Opportunity" and
where he got his inspiration for it.
However, it seems that this is a mat
ter of little Importance in as much as
he was first to make a poem out Of
it worth reading
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Director North of the United States
census bureau has recently made an
estimate of the population Of the coun-
try at the time of taking the census
in 1910, placing the number at S9,041,-
436. This indicates a percentage in
crease of 17.2 as compared with 20.7
in the last decade
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PARTY MEN OF VALUE.

Des Moines Capitalize men most
valuable to a political party are those
who actually believe in its principles
and not those who apologize for the
same. Such men put the light in the
school house window for the local
They lead the torch
light professions. In the meetings Of
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But little more than three weeks and
Theodore Roosevelt will be nominated
for the presidency at Chicago by ac-
clamation that will echo and re-echo
throughout the length and breadth of
the nation.
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1t is said that Congressman Bob"
Cousins has been chosen to speak for
the great northwest in seconding the
of President Roosevelt.
This being SO it is a settled fact that.
the northwest will be we'll spoken for.
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The United States holds first place
as an exporter of domestic products.
The total for the nine months ending
with March was 81 100000 which
is S76,OO0,000 ahead of British exports
for the same time.
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The floating mine may have more
destructive power confined in it than
has the battleship, but were it not for
the existence of the latter there would
be little use of retaining the former In
commission.
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NOT MUCH.

Kansas City .Journal.-"Will the de-
feat of Roosevelt disturb business o.
asks the Houston Chronicle. No, not
any more than the falling Of the moor
VIII demoralize the market for gree
cheese. Now cover up your head an
go to sleep like q good child
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Were it not for simply keeping that
organization intact, doubtless many
democrats would favor making it
unanimous by endorsing Roosevelt for
president.
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GET in THE SWIM.

Hull Index.-Brother Bowers Is still
inclined to be pretty abusive to the
standpatters. It's hard not to be in
the swim, George and you are at lib
erty at any time to strip off your
present wearing apparel and jump in.
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make it's way. And through Japan
the lump of Christian philosophy may
be expected to leaven the loaf of Chin
ese life more surely and expeditiously
than it could through direct mission
airy effort in China itself.
This meeting at Toxic may mark an
epoch in the history of Japan even
more important than the date of the
beginning of the war with Russia.
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In spite of all the talk that has been
made during the past year about
noiseless Fourth of July it appears that
the national holiday will be celebrated
in the old fashioned way this year.
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Present indications are that the IL.
linois deadlock will be doing business
at the olds stand when the republican
convention reconvenes in Springfield
next week.
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The way Manager Kennedy and his
standpatters hit the ball and raced
around the bases Tuesday was eau
ton The batting average of the OF
tumwa boys took quite boost that
day
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Bryan wants to be democrat who
would die for his platform" observes
the Chicago Evening Post, and then
asks, do we hear any objections
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There are doubtless many ministers
at the conference in Los Angeles who
would not have resigned as did Bishop.
Elect Day.
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Iowans are now looking forward to
a bumper crop of corn regardless of
whether or not the seed was tested.