Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-03

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doubted whether colonei Roosevelt Ell en-
joys being girded about With official
guardians and whether they really add
anything to his safety. ssaog Sae sJs2oE
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's'' Barry and Paul Jones.
The one branch of our government iii
which all outs people take pride and Of
which no American citizen Is Jealous
is the naNysnsAye fiate5tset our faces.
like! flint against n large Standing army,
but public opinion is practically unanif
nous in favor of a strong navy. The
reasons for 'tiifs dfffereilce OF tie feeliir,
as to the twosaiaiis Of Tie military sef1-
ice are not farstoi seek.yyInt tile first
place. the Hlyys does not lneddleE With
affairs ons land: II Il Even jim sthe worst
days of ,trecpnstrnetphath the marines
We're never asked to overawe voters at
the polls. Clrpetbag rascals frequent
~ We're backed up by the, army, but
never by the navy, In Ilnn, the second place
navy cam IT he. ,!improvised as eau
an army. especially since the Invention
of the modern baSttlcslifp,, torpedo boat,
and torpedo boat destroyer These are
complicated delicate and costly n1aas
chimes, which require years, not months,
In the building, and which none, but
trained men can manipulate On the
other hand, an army even great
army, cah be specially created. by real
son of his high intelligence tile Amer
lean citizeh is ttiea easiest9of all mora
tails to transform into hlier. Z This;
was demonstrated on q gigantic scale
in 1861 and on smaller scale during
the Hispano- nericah war AS aimat!'
ter Of fact, we have never depended on
& the regular soldierato Edos otlrwfighting,
but upon the volunteer, and weshaHe
not relied upon him him iin FYaiI; He has
met every requirement. and has given.
us the victory in every war
BY reason Of tie foregoing facts the
bulk Of our people will Aindorses the
project to bring the remains of John
Paul Jones, cur first great naval hero.
home for reburial and to erect statues
In the national capital to him and Com
medore Barry. This duty has already
been too long deferred. 9R 1850 sYsn
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The Harlan family, is one of the few
In this country in which great talents
are hereditary 10 Mr.. Justice John Mar
shall Harlan Of the. supreme court Of
the United States is "a, great law
yer, as was his father before lin, and
his son, John NJ, j., who has Just be- Been
nominated as the Republican candidate
for mayor Of Chicago; appears to be- a
chip of the old block.5 The n1ostare.l
tmarkable instance in America of great
talents descending from generation to
generation is, that Of the Adams family
in Massachusetts.
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The extreme ygouthfulness of the
i United States as q, opation is forcibly
+ illustrated by the fact that at Syracuse,
3 N. Y.,1lives q daughter Of one of Wash
dngton's colonels. She is Mrs. Levi e.
Dodge. Her father was Colonel James
G. Wilson, who lfeed In Philadelphia to
the great age OF 1881 gl4yaod ST are
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~ Ifathe senateokeeps on in dts rantan.
kerous opposition to President Roosevelt
he viii be as glad 10 get congress, of
his hands as was Grover, Cleveland.
Indeed, occasionally some oyerzealous
but underwise friend Of the president
is heard to wish that congress would
: not meet againin Ave years, bat, II not
f; in FIVE years, then why meet at all?7 4
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| Has anybody observed any fall In
the price Of dressed beef since the
supreme court rendered. its. opinion
Hardly, Everybody 4" fanywaiisaes con.
cerned Should read theastory lin the
back of Webster's, old blue back speller.
AS long as the man hurled bits of sod
at the boy in the apple tree the, young
stertonly laughed him to sseorn. but as
soon as, the man. substituted rocks for
turf the urchii7 hurried down. The
application? Plain as the nose on on yoto,tiir
face Give up civil procedure ana
prosecute the trusts scriminally.ti That
will bring them to time.
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