Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
Creation Of New Offices.

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Creation Of New Offices.
Senator James A. Hemenway Of In
diana, late chairman Of the house COM
mittee on appropriations, Is out i'll an
interview In which he jumps on the IN
crease Of public buildings with both
feet in order to stop the deficit in the
treasury. Brother Hemenway would
render the country an undoubted serv
ice u he would use his influence in pre-
venting the creation of new useless Of
fees. This is not only an evil, but q
growing evil. Cut it off, and the def
cit would be much reduced. Republic
ans cannot escape responsibility for
this drain on the treasury. Since 1895
they have had absolute control Of both
houses Of congress, and since March 4,
1897. they have also had the executive;
consequently they must be held respon-
sible at the bar Of public opinion for
the constant increase Of superfuous Of
fees. No sane man can doubt that the
public business can be transacted as
well as it is now transacted by two
ries from Uncle Sam. Nobody wants
to cripple the public service, but no
body who has the good Of the republic
at heart desires to see q, continuance of
the wicked and wanton waste Of the
public revenues. OF course public
| buildings should not be erected where
| they are not needed. but where needed
they should be erected.
A new and growing difficulty con-
fronts the advocates Of our having the
biggest navy ever, and that is whole
sale desertion. More than 25 per cent
Of our jackies unceremoniously quit
the service annually. So great nai.
sance has this become that special
investigation is to be made into the
causes impelling our seamen to this
unseemly line Of conduct. Query: II
we cannot induce enough men to wear
Uncle Sans uniform to man the ships
we now have. how can we man those
in the minds of Captain Robson and
Admiral Melville, both retired2 In the
army matters are not much better. De
sertions are SO numerous as to cripple
the service. A big army and the big.
gest navy ever mean CONSUMPTION
law! How will the people like that1
The Philippines are being pacihed
once more. General Leonard Wood
has just worked OFF, some 300 Moros
which should entitle Leonard to an
other promotion. He lost seven men
killed and several wounded. The
chances are that any one Of the Ameri.
can soldiers was worth the entire 300
Moros. The objection on the part Of
these obtuse Filipinos to being assimi
lated, benignantly or otherwise, Il
puzzling the assimilators.
The American Economist, organ Of
the Tariff league, is particularly un
fortunate as TO cartoons. It's latest
contains log marked uncle Sans
Prosperity Into the end Of the log
Is sticking wedge labeled "Revision,'
On the log stands wild eyed person
dressed in frock coat, white waistcoal
ana creased pantaloons, swinging s
b:oadax, on which is printed Free
. Trade" The cartoon bears the legend
. "If he had his way" Evidently TIL
cartoonist has never witnessed the in
. teyesting process Of splitting log.
wedge is driven in by maui, wood
en- maui, not by a broadax. The maui
er stands, not on the log, but on tn
ground He rarely, if ever, wears
frock coat, white vest and crease'
!, pantaloons while SO engaged. Tha
cartoon may be acceptable in Wa
street, but not In the woods wher
: logs are split.
Governor Albert B. Cummins o
Iowa is mild sort OF tariff revisionis
merely that and nothing more. Never
theless he is denounced savagely as
: free trader by the stand pat organs
: Anybody who proposes to reduce thei
: largess is in their estimation a traffic
= to his country, for they believe the
: the country's whole duty Is to fee
them on pap. ~