Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-30
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Especial Washlnstoa hs$essi
TT Is always decidedly Nfreshtng to
see the Pennsylvania Republican
bosses especially the Pennsylva-
= mia Republican bosses Of Pt1adel-
phia catch it in the neck. That's what
has Just happened to thenk When the
boeses selected Mayor Weaver for his
important post they seem to have
bought a pig In q poke. How he came
to do It nobody knows. and really NO
body cares. Whether he acted from
fear, principle or ambition, the result
is the same-the Philadelphia Republic
an bosses noses are out Of joint, which
Is always and under all circumstances
q matter for congratulation all round.
II 1t ends in the disintegration Of the
Quay-Penrose state machine. so much
the better. A corrupter institution
never existed. H@
Al Last.
The Washington Post says editori-
ally, "Our next war will DO for our
colonies" That's q mournful declara-
don and true IT'S true, and pity tbs tits
true. 1t has taken seven years for the
Post, brilliant as 1t Il, to discover what
some duller folks knew In 1893 When
the Hawaiian grab, forerunner Of the
Philippine idiocy, was before congress
seven years ago this month, the Post
yelled at the top OF its voice for the
senseless grab and denounced all Of us
who fought that un-American scheme
as little Americans" etc. 1t says now
what we said then. Nothing short of
the roar Of Togo's guns seems to have
aroused it to full realization Of thu
hole into which we deliberately plunged
ourselves. Our next war Will be fog
our colonies" Yea, verify. And whot
are those colonies worth to us7 No0'
Ing whatsoever. They are millstona
about our neck and always will be ~.
til they plunge US into ''our ne1t war
when we will probably 60 ont Of thl
colony business
When the Hawaiian grab was II
fagrante and reason was demanded
for annexing the lepers we were told
that we could not exist q year in safsty
unless Pearl harbor, at Honolulu, was
not only ours, but fortifed-which was
palpable fable, for we had existed
in safety for more than century with
out owning Pearl harbor. What ]
want to ask the jingoes-and they are
oil fvr taH To Ia fhfo, tT 2
safety depends on owning and fortify-
ing Pearl harbor, how does 1t happen
that we have owned Pearl harbor TOR
seven years and have never done q
thing toward removing the bal. feett,
flying the harbor or In any way improy-
ing that harbor on which 1t WA said
that the salvation Of the republic d.
pended?" Did those who In juno, 16oS,
asserted that we could not live e mevs
or have our being without PeASa bar
Dor misrepresent the facts wilifui1 o.
by reason of ignorance7 "Our next
war will be for our eolonissw That
Is a sickening prospect surely. The
Post is little late seven years h4a, In
fact but 1t deserves credit for waking
up and sounding the tocsin at laat. In
ahead Of the other annexa$aouists In
getting Its eyes open,
Here is the whole paragraph from
the Post, which contains as much food
for reflection as can be found in 10 few
words printed In the last ten years:
Japans victory against Russia nalpss
our duty plain We must be rid Of our
colonies or get q navy second to mona.
Our next war win be for our colonies.
England IL tickled to death. She thinks
we will need her. Some OF our own 1osks
seem to think so too.
OF course England is. ucklsd 10
death" She's been tickled eyer since
we played the part Of SUIT Lovinsood's
daddy by turning ID fool and 60
ing into her line Of business - land
grabbing. She has always boastsd
that we negotiated the idiotic heAty
of Paris under the protection Of Eng.
lish guns-a thing which tickled an thu
Anglomaniacs in this country halt IL
death. It's pity that 1t didn't tickle
them entirely to DEATH for Of. al, the
addle pated marplots living under oul
flag they are the worst.
England Is tickled to DEATH OF
course. She is delighted to think that
she will use us to pull her chestnuts
out Of the fire. She once had tho Phil.
ippines and gave them away-the only
land she ever voluntarily reliuquishsd
but she Is glad to see us load our
selves up with what she had sense
enough to abandon. She longs for 9
hard and fast coalition between ing
land, America and Japan, and abel
get 1t II the Republican 1insoes con
tinue in power-those Jingoes who ratt
Washington, Jefferson and an tht
statesmen prior to 1898 as old fog1es.
| SINCE the Post published that bald
| and courageous paragraph above quot
ed Governor J. A. T. Hull, representa-.
tive In congress from Des Moines, la.
ought to pluck up courage enough tc
crawl out Of his hole and retract hif
retraction Of his interview about oui
having a war with Japan unless We
sell her the Philippines. The Original
interview was the most sensible ut
terance by all odds that Hull evel
made. but at the first broadside from
[taf slngo organ he took to cover, swear
ing that he had been misquoted by the
reporter. 1t was his only chance to &c,
| q reputation for wisdom, and he threw,