Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-09-28

President Roosevelt shall remain in
the White House till 1912. Whether
there was any connection between the
two things we are not informed. 1t
may have been that the information
as to flour years more Of Theodore"
gave Uncle Joe the chill. Again, it
may have been the sinking feeling"
which succeeds chill which caused
the speaker to take such cherries
view of his own presidential prospects
OF course it may have been a mere CO.
incidence = merely that and nothing
more. Everybody will regret That
Uncle Joe has the chills. Usually he
is sort of political Mark Tapley, and
let us hope that he will soon be restor-
ed to his usual state of hilarity. One
thing dead sure, he has burned his
bridges behind. him as to the labor or
CARNATIONS. President Gompers and
all the rest may now understand-must
understand = that so long as he is
speaker organized labor's demands will
receive scant courtesy in congress, and
If the Republicans carry the house
Uncle Joe will be speaker if he lives.
The Tariff and Cotton.
Republican newspapers and spell
binders who claim that the Dingley tar
if bill-from which they gravely but err
roneously assert all our blessings flow
would do we'll to ponder the facts
as to cotton exports. No man in his
senses will, if he values his reputation,
assert that the Dingley tariff bill has
anything TO do with our cotton exports,
for the ordinary short staple cotton Of
commerce is on the free list For the
fiscal year ended June 30 we export
ed $4OO,OOO,O00 Of cotton, nearly the
amount of the balance of trade in our
favor. That's an enormous sum. For
eign necessities caused that vast ex-
portation of raw cotton, and none save
an idiot will assert that the Dingley
tariff causes people in foreign lands
to want our cotton. The whole case
Is this: They must have cotton, and
they can't get it elsewhere; therefore
they buy our cotton, Dingley bill or no
Dingley bill. The whole world is pros
porous now; therefore the world con-
sumes more cotton; therefore they buy
more of our cotton. That's it, and
that's all.
Banker Stensland.
The capture Of Stensland, the Chica-
go banker thief, in Morocco recalls the
capture of Boss Tweed in Spain many
years ago. By some sort of conniv-
ance with the New York authorities
Tweed escaped from the officers who
had him under arrest and sailed for
Spain without any officer knowing bis
destination. Why he selected Spain
as the land of his exile has never been
explained. Perhaps the willy boss
thought they were SO sleepy headed In
the realm Of the Spanish dons that no
body would ever recognize him. That's
precisely where he fell down, for no
sooner had he set foot on Spanish soil
than Spanish policeman recognized
and arrested him. No doubt that was
the greatest surprise Of Tweed's life,
and all mankind was surprised to learn
that the Spanish policeman recognized
him from seeing his caricatures by
Thomas Mast In Happer's Weekly.
How he happened to see them has new
er been made known. On dit that
Stensland chose Morocco as place
of residence by reason of the descrip-
ton or that country set forth in q
comic opera of which he was fond.
That's rather fishy, but may be true.
The report from Washington that
Mi, Secretary Of War William Fl. Taft
Is to decline a seat upon the supreme
bench is entirely credible. as he Is
known aspirant for the Republican
presidential nomination. But the 9th.
er report that Attorney General Wil
liam Fl. Moody is to be appointed to
the supreme bench must be accepted
with some misgivihgs. for that would
give Massachusetts, two places on tn
supreme bench out of nine. Whtlt
there is no law against such state q
affairs, custom and good sense arr
decidedly against 1t, That would CIV.
the nine Judges to eight states. Eupel,
the thirty-seven other states have law
yers just as competent. Why not pass
the judicial pie around? When Nor
rison R. Waite of Ohio was chief jus
ice there was another Ohio man whs
was associate justice. Mr.. Moody is I'M
doubtedly g man Of fair capacity and
good character. He made 2 good rep
resentative in congress and is p ca
pable attorney general, but there are
others.
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