Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
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Especial Washington Letter.
OR years the Republicans used a
- smooth and plausible argument
in their political missionary
work in Missouri. It was so
well done that they got disgruntled
Democrats to take 1t up and push II,
and sound Democrats even wh1spered
h confidence to each other that 1t was
probably correct; hence dangerous
argument for the Republicans to use.
The argument In question was simply
this:
'If Missouri should go Republican 1t
would attract the attention OF eastern
and northern farmers, add to their
confidence In Missouri as good loca-
ton and bring them by thousands to
take up our surplus Of fine farm
lands"
1t looked 80 plausible that Democrats
always avoided the subject when pos
sible. Many even admitted its truth.
But was it true? We know now that it
was not.
Al 1OO[ IAlSSouAA WC1I
as has been the custom for many years.
That summer, fall and winter the
farm buyers from Illinois, Iowa and
Indiana overran Missouri like the Japs
In Manchuria. Their keen eyes were
seeking out and buying the best corn
lands wherever found. In one Of the
counties Of my congressional district
the real estate transfers ran into the
millions that winter and the following
spring. For two years the buying kept
up pretty well. Then, In the fall Of
1904, Roosevelt carried the state. All
the Republican state ticket was elected
with the exception Of one man.
When this occurred the Republican
wiseacres and the sorehead Democrats
stood around and looked pleasant,
while the real estate agents began list,
ing all the land they could get on their
books and began meeting the trains
from the east and north. But did the
expected flood Of buyers come and
darken the land like the frogs in
Egypt7 Nay, not sol A real estate
man in the county where the heaviest
sales had been before this Republican
victory told me he hadn't seen a ''land
locker" since before the election of
1904. The buyers not only failed to In
crease in numbers, but they altogether
stopped coming.
But Iowa farmers are going some
where. High taxes, high priced land
and Republican state rule do not seem
to keep them at home. Probably the
reason they are not coming to Mis-
souri, since she went Republican Is be-
cause they have had enough Of Repub.
lican rule at home. Iowa business
men are alarmed at the exodus from
the state to Manitoba and elsewhere
and the Republican congressman en-
pect that the next census returns will
cause them to lose representative.
The Deficit.
In recent letter, IN commenting on
the reported deficit In the revenue for
the fiscal year ending June 80. said
1t would be much more but for the de-
vice OF deferring payments which
| should have been made In May and
June until July and August Certain
sapient Republican editors said was
incorporating the facts for political
effect. That I was stating facts In the
case has been demonstrated by subse-
quent events. For the first twenty
days Of the new fiscal year beginning
July ! the deficiency was increased by
SIS. 1858, 285.20. This looks very much
like deficiency Of 800, OOO, 900 by the
end Of the fiscal years, June 80, 1905.
That these same sapient editors will
not again accuse me OF misstating the
facts will here quote dispatch
printed in the St Louis Globe-D Demo
crat a Republican newspaper.
Washington, July 2o-For the first TWEEN
ty days Of the present month the treasury
deficit has reached an amount In excess
OF one-half the whole deficit for the last
fiscal year. The deficit at the close OF
business today reached Nb,85s 2S6.e %. This
deficit Is shown In the daily treasury
statement under the item excess Of en-
penditures over receipts this fiscal year."
AS the fiscal year began on the first day
OF this month but twenty days have pess-
cd Of the hscal year. Counting out Sun
days and legal holidays. It would appear
that the government u operating at losa
OF 100000 per day.
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