Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-23

ZIG re6 uidT practlce 10 nave orders In his
favor on the treasury presented along
might receive the former before signing
the latter. When the Indians wSse scalp
Ing the western people and notice of it
arrived the concurrence of the governor
in the means of self defense could not
be got till 1t Wac agreed that his estate
should be exempted from taxation. So
that the people were to fight for the se-
curlty of his property while he was to
bear no share OF the burden.
Tariff Views.
The Boston Herald, an Independent
newspaper, recently said:,
One Of the ablest of the newspapers Of
the Union in Its editorial department
comes from the extreme west. The Port
land Oregonian, published there, though
accounted Republican journal and re-
garding itself as in agreement in its gen.
eral positions with the Republican party
has yet enough OF that natural accom-
paniment of ability, independence, to pre-
sent claims to a better classification. It
has discussed the tariff question always
with candor, and in its latest considera-
ton of the subject we find 1t saying:
American tariff practice differs from
European in two important respects-our
constant expectation to violent changes
and our aversion to necessary slight
changes. : Our dnwillingness to re-
wise the tariff in specific spots when JUS
tice and eXpediency require is partly due
to ignorance OF our professed statesmen,
who study ward politics more than they
do commercial needs; partly to super
stltlous worship of figures and punctua-
ton marks in tariff bills and partly to
more or less corrupt subservience to the
great protected corporations"
The Rooseyelt-Taft Panama canal
pronunciamento as to the purchase OF
supplies where they can be obtained
the cheapest seems to have added my
venerable and vitrlollc friend from
Ohio, General Charles ii. Grosvenor.
Perhaps it's the heat. Whatever it is
that ails him, he predicts that congress
will be convened in extraordinary ses-
sion Nov. IL, which is Sunday! Some
body ought to kindly lend the general
an almanac.
Mr.. Secretary Of the Treasury Leslie
NJ. Shaw Is great stumper and
brilliant postprandial orator, but a. .
prophet he Is not bowling SUCCESS.
Quite the contrary. All along he has
been predicting that the deficit would
not exceed $1s,O00,000. whereas at tho
end of May 1t was $50, csc, 900 and still
growing. All the Republican stump
speakers and papers should promptly
and abjectiy apologize to Hon. Henry
G. Davis for the abuse they heapsd Oh
him last fall for telling the truth about
the deficit. Will they do it7 Not much.
They haven't decency enough.
The country will be relieved to know
that Hon. Whitelaw Reid, ambassador
to the court Of st. James, after being
kept, like Mohammed's coffin, suspended
betwixt heaven and earth for ninety
days by Hon. Joe Choate, has at last
reached his post of duty; not that any
body cares particularly where White
law may be at any particular time, or
whether we have an ambassador to
England at all, but because the people
generally are weary Of the whole mesa
WASU 3ouoI0A. 1euEy v. 0Vyup00
died the country lost one Of It's brav-
est soldiers and one Of Its best citi-
zens. A kinder heart never beat In
human bosom. He was gentleman
in the best sense of that much abused
term. He was foremost in every good
word and work. He helped along many
man In an honorable public career.
He was an exemplar of the good, the
beautiful and the true. He always did
what he thought was right for rights
sake.
Whatever else may happen in the
wide, wide world, it can never be
claimed that the Chicago Journal is
not optimistic. 1t sdiscourses Of "The
Russian Republic" as cheerfully as
Colonel Sellers spoke of that vast for
tune which he was to amass in Asia
by selling his infallible remedy for
sore eyes. But the colonel died poor,
and there is. no Russian republic, and
will not be, we fear, for some scores,
perhaps hundreds, of years. OF course
It is to be hoped that in the course of
human events Peter the Greats realm
will become republican, but as yet 1t Is
Cossack, with no republic in sight.