Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-01-06

II
n week Immediately after the cleo
IA ton lecturing in Georgia and the
Christmas holidays occurring in
New England. My various speaking
and lecturing expeditions into the
northeast corner of the republic have
led me to the conclusion that, while
southern hospitality is in nowise over
estimated, northern hospitality in gen
eral, and New England hospitality par
ticularly, is much moderated. Nowhere
have been greeted with more warmth
or entertained with more cordially
than in Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Rhode Island and Connecticut
1t is really pity that every southerner
cannot spend some time in the north
and every northerner some time in the
south. Many imagined differences and
incompatibilities would vanish as
dream. The people of both sections
are amenable to reason. The lines of
demarcation would disappear could
each know the other better.
When Abraham Lincoln visited Rich
mond at the close of the war between
the states band struck up Dixie"
A superserviceable subaltern undertook
to stop it, whereupon the great emanci-
pator said: Let them play it. We cap
tured Dixie along with the Confeder-
acy," one of the wisest sayings of that
wise man. In Boston, Dec. 26, my
wife and l went to see George AIDES
splendid comedy, 1.-THE County Chair
man," at the fremont theater The
performance began by the band rem
dering medley made up of "Ameri-
ca" Dixie" "Old Dan Tucker" 1.-THE
Star spangled Banner Maryland, Ny
Maryland" etc. Dixie" and Mary
land My Maryland" were as warmly
Spangled Banner" Southern men are
as cordially accepted as southern mu-
sic, all Of which is good for the repub-
lie.
By the way, New England is the only
part Of the country in which Democ-
racy seems to be on the up grade.
Even in 1904, the year of the Repub-
1ican flood, Massachusetts did herself
proud by electing William L. Douglas,
the great Democratic shoe manufacture
er, governor. If he makes good chief
magistrate of the old Bay State far
stranger things have happened than
his succeeding President Roosevelt
March 4, 1909. Boston is Democratic
by an overwhelming majority and
comes more and more to influence the
politics of the state. The leaven Of
reciprocity is working in Massachu-
sets at rapid rate and may by the
impulse given to it by the election Of
Governor Douglas land the state in the
Democratic column. Sixty thousand
Massachusetts manufacturers, mer-
chants and other citizens during the
recent campaign signed petitions favor
ing reciprocity with Canada. OF course
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the Re
publican boss Of Massachusetts, de.
nounced the reciprocity agitation as o
wicked invention Of the Democrats OF
the devil, he hardly knew which, the
two being about the same in his eyes
but the people took no such view of it,
as was demonstrated conclusively by
the majority for Governor Douglas.
The truth is that the New Englanders
conceive free raw material to be nee
essary for the continued prosperity of
their manufacturing industries. If the
stand patters deny them Canadian rec
iprocity and free raw materials they
are certain to double team with the
Democrats. When they do that the
long reign Of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge will draw to close, consum-
nation devoutly to be wished.
In Rhode Island in 1904 the Demo.
Gratis elected one congressman out OF
two and came near to re-electing that
splendid Democrat, Governor Garvin
So, taken all in ALL the Democrats Of
New England feel rather cheerful.