Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-09-14

town graze." but that's the way Edin-
burgh castle and the three kingdoms
were lost.
Hope For the Future.
"Hope springs eternal in the human
breast" So said Alexander Pope So
say we all. Just at present there is
much cause for increased hope as to
the future of our beloved country.
The last gale that swept from the, east
brought the glad tidings of great Joy
that United States Senator General
Charles Dick of Ohio has concluded to
permit the state convention to make
Its own platform. This is cheerful
news. 1t Is q concession to the reform
idea that's growing like Jonah's gourd
vine. Ohio Republicans are SO in the
habit Of having their platforms made
by the bosses in secret conclave that
It may we'll be doubted whether they
can make one themselves. But Gen
eral-Senator Dicks concession in that
regard is notable performance, for
he is the residuary legatee Of Senator
Marcus A. Hanna's political estate in
Ohio. Last year General-Senator Dick
ct al. ran the Hanna machine into the
ground, and a Democratic governor
was elected by $4,000, whereas two
years before Myron T. Herrick, Sen
ator Hanna's understudy, was elected
governor by 114,o00, and Roosevelt
carried the state by about quarter Of
million. Let us hope that General
Senator Dicks conversion to the idea
Of a government of the people, by the
people and for the people is perma-
nent reform and not mere spasm Of
virtue such as Macaulay says the Eng
lish have at long intervals. Next to
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, Ohio
has been the most thoroughly boss rid
den state In the Union since Republic
ans have dominated 1t.
"ohtnese Coolies on the lsthmus."
The administrations plan of break
ing down the safeguards of the Chi
nese exclusion law by failure to en-
force It and by employing Chinese on
tho isthmus has awakened grave mis-
givings in the minds Of many people
Even the Washington Post, which is
printed right under the shadow Of the
White House-an independent paper
seems to be waking up to the danger.
Under the above heading it lately pub
ushed this editorial, which contains
much food for serious reflection:
The isthmian canal commission In max
Ing up Its specifications relating to the
employment Of Chinese coolies in the
canal zone seems to have made no pro-
Vision tor deporting the coolies. The
Omitted States agrees to house the Chinese
published specifications say nothing about
deportation. Possibly 1t Is figured that
the arrangement for free graves will dis
pose Of the coolies who have done their
share Of work.
The Philadelphia Press. which is as
strong q friend Of the canal enterprise as
the Post is and which is Just as anxious
to sea the dirt fly, points out the disagree-
able features Of colonizing Chinese under
the American flag. In Hawaii the In
crease Of Chinese and Japanese school
children has become so marked as to faint
the American school children. and a lively
protect Ia going UP against the presence
3 0VnoF race OF orleutaAs, ne increase
n schpG children followed the COLOMBIA
ton OF the islands by coolies imported by
TIE sugar planters. From 1902 to 1905 the
Chinese pupils IN the schools Of Hawaii
pupils 81, per cent These races now num-
Der one-fourth Of the school population.
It may be argued, Of course. that as
zone the presence OF Chinese there viii
not be Objectionable. It has already been
ASSERTED that the canal gone Is not Amer
tcAp territory, but merely leased ground.
aud that persons born there are not citi-
zens Of the United States. Nevertheless,
tho continued residence of thousands Of
Chinese coolies anywhere under the Amer
tbs country, and 1t is a question whether
the problems connected With such a state
of affairs were adequately studied before
the decision was made to employ coolies.
e the canal commission intends to
deport coolies who have performed their
allotted period Of peonage at Panama 1t
will be up against another difficult sltua-
be deported. as has been the oase else
where Suppose they prefer to overriin
Central America and make their way to
the United States, The use Of the slave
pen would be the only effective method
m preventing this. The coolies would
have to be herded together under armed
guard and shipped back and forth like
battle. This. we believe, will be the
method finally determined on. It will be
moving spectacle indeed to see the Unit
"a States In the peopage business in the
2ternpt to dig the cana, by days labor.
The sooner the whole business is turned
over to contractors. with no more par
Hoipation by the government than is re-
CURED for rigid inspection, the sooner will
ynic inp
quenoes Of what might become the great
ut scandal that has ever occurred since
the French began the great task.
Busting Banks.
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