Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-18
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wrought by ,-concoru Q, swee.
sounds
There are great and fetching posi-
bilittes in Frier's programme. Music
has hitherto been used for many pur-
poses. BlonGel, page to Richard of the
Lion Heart, discovered where his royal
master was confined by singing trouba-
dour ballads under the windows Of all
the prisons of Europe till he found the
right one. Richard, duke of Wharton,
always claimed that he whistled James
II. out of the three Kingdoms. Crom-
wells Ironsides went into battle and
to victory singing the psalms of David,
and General William Henry Harrison
-"Old Tippecanoe"-was sung into the
White House, and so on to the end Of
the chapter. If the Chicago convention
becomes obstreperous and tempestuous
perhaps Frier can restore peace by
singing "Joe Bowers" to the palpitating
patriots sweltering in the heat of the
summer solstice. If the delegates are
listless and dull he can arouse them to
the fighting point by gently warbling
"Hiawatha" or "Bedelia." Should
Governor Cummins undertake to ex-
pound "the Iowa idea" Frier might 81
lence him with "Hark from the tombs
q doleful sound Should any opposi-
ton develop to Colonel Roosevelt
which is not probable-he can quell it
by striking up Rally Round the Flag,
Boys" One thing dead sure-if Frier
will set the Republican slogan. "Stand
pat" to music and sing it to the con-
vention he will leave Chicago with a
national fame and be entitled to good
fat office If the Republicans win in
November.
Their Ok Gored.
The American Publishers associa
ton a few weeks ago convened in
New York and adopted unanimously
resolutions calling on the Republican
administration to enforce the anti
trust law against the paper trust.
They also declared in favor of remoy
ing the tariff duties on pulp and white
paper. Perhaps majority of that as
sociation-certainly a large per cent
are Republicans, and their action
would appear anomalous did we not
remember Mark Twain's philosophy to
the effect that human nature is very
strong and that we oil have a great
deal of it in us. The members of the
Publishers association, whether Re-
publicans or Democrats, constitute no
exception to the rule. Very much de-
ponds on whose OK is gored, and the
paper and wood pulp trusts gore the OK
of the Publishers association; hence
this high kick. OF course the paper
and wood pulp trust is no worse than
the salt trust, the nail trust, the coal
trust. the lumber trust, the beef trust
and the whole brood of trusts. When
consumers of the articles controlled by
trusts In general have raised howl.
these same Republican editors who
now split the welkin with their protest
against the extortions of the paper
trust have looked on with q sardonic
grin upon their faces and have about
as much sympathy for the victims as
the old woman had for the cells squirm-
ing in her hot skillet. In three con-
crosses have introduced bills to place
wood pulp, white paper and all the In
gradients entering into their compost
ton on the free list-one of the propo-
sitions now urged by the American
Publishers association as a remedy
for trusts Did the Republican mem.
bers thereof aid me any? Not that
anybody heard Of. Now the iron en-
tiers their souls and am glad of it. In
| the Fifty-lfth congress they would
have had to line up only eight Repub
lican members to have passed my bill
for every Democratic member would
have supported it most heartily. and
no man in his senses doubts for one
moment that the Republican members
Of that association could have dashed
that many Republican representatives
and more into supporting my bill.
intend to give them another chance by
introducing the bill again in a few
days, and as l am now on the commit
tee on ways and means, will endeay,
or to force it to a yea and nay vote
In the committee and see bow the
eleven Republican members Of that
committee stand on that proposition
on the eve Of an election. All the Re
publican members Of the American
Publishers association are hereby
most cordially and urgently invited tt
train their guns on Hon. Serene e
Payne and his ten Republican brethren
on that committee, and If they do no
do so they should forever hold theil
peace.
| Commenting on the aforesaid resolu
lions of the American Publishers as
ISOLATION, the New York Commercial
remarks very pertinently:
It was to be expected that Democratic
publishers would encourage such move
ment, but 1t was hardly expected tina
men who are constantly preaching tn
benefits and advantages of protection
would desert their colors merely because
for the moment, they might profit there
BY. How much conviction will protection
arguments In the journals published b,
these men be apt to carry hereafter?
1should Be Hanged"
Republican politics in the Hawkeyt
State is undoubtedly warming up tt
the boiling perchance the boiling oyel
! point. The Redoak Qa.) Express, {
stand patter of the stand patters, re
Gently delivered itself Of the following
redhot remarks:
Mr.. Blythe's statement to the effect tina
IN order to restore harmony to the Re