Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-29
Clark's
Massachusetts, Republicans In a
Bad Way-A Scheme That Failed.
Tho Bully Abroad Our Expire
oonspirators? By voting the Repub-
hcan ticket this fall they will do SO.

oonspirators? By voting the Repub
bean ticket this fall they will do SO.
outre Mer.
Dispatches from the orient say that
General Leonard Wood Is preparing
bis troops In the Philippines for an in
vasion Of China should occasion arise.
Sensible folks who believe in every
mans attending to his own affairs in
this world and in letting the other fell
low severely alone and who believe
furthermore that that rule of conduct
applies to nations as well as to indi-
viduals will wonder why we should be
exing to invade the Celestial Empire.
'Oh, but we have become a world
power and must do as other world
powers do" is the answer to our sug-
gestion that we would be better off by
adhering to our more than a century
old policy Of avoiding entangling alli-
ances with old world powers, just as
II we had not been world power ever
since Jefferson made the Louisiana
purchase. It would no doubt add to
General Woods newspaper notoriety
TO command an expedition to Picking,
but what good would that quixotic
achievement do us or anybody else?
Why should we be fools enough to
pull the chestnuts out of the fire for
Great Britain and the other Unsuitable
European land grabbers? Why will
not we learn any lesson whatsoever
from the experience Of others from
the well esta blished truths of history?
We have just about as much business
invading China as we have to invade
Scotland, Ireland, England or Siberia,
and we would be just as slow to in
wade China as we would these others
II we believed her to be as able to repel
invasion. Some Of these days some
body who invades China will get a
most astounding walloping. She will
wake up just as certainly as Japan did
and 500, 00OO 900 Chinese can when they
are 30 minded put an army into the
dsld greater in numbers than all the
subjects of the mikado, counting even
babes In arms. What this country
needs in the conduct Of it's public af-
fairs is much less jingoism and much
more common sense. The bully who
swaggers around with a chip on his
shoulder will ultimately find somebody
to knock it of.
The Presidents Great and Farsishted
Friend.
Carlos Morales, ex-president of the
Santo Domingo republic (y, with whom
President Roosevelt established mo.
dus vivendi without the consent of the
senate and who was pronounced by
Colonel Roosevelt to be a great and
farseeing statesman" and who uncere-
moniously and literally took to the
woods, leaving our president with the
bag to hold, is at it again. Late dis
patches from Porto Rico say that Mo-
rales Is arranging filibustering ex-
petition against his beloved country,
which he quit for its good and to save
his own neck. OF course his object is
10 Fepossess himself OF the govern
msnt, IL government there be in that
accursed island, AZ A matter Of fact,
he Is a common bandit and was no
more elected president Of the republic
Of Santo Domingo than Colonel Roose-
Xsit was elected ahkoond Of Swat.
He simply grabbed the executive Office
Vi Of armes. The best thing that
could happen to him would be that
somebody should fill his hide full of
lead. The dispatches aforementioned
Inform us, furthermore, that our gun
boats are patrollipg the Dominican wa
tiers to protect American interests =
that Ia to say, to police santo Domingo.
Why not bring them home and permit
these psstilent marauders to butcher
each other to their hearts oontenti
The more they kill each other the bet
ter for the world. What they are
pleased to denominate revolutions are
nothing more or less than fights be.
twlxt small parties Of thieves, cut
hgeats and freebo oters, the leaders OF
which become generals all, though the
chances are that IL all the so called
Dominican soldiers who have been On.
gagged in all the revolutions in the last
ten years were punched there would
not be enough Of them to constitute q
full brigade. It's nice mess into
which The mpdys vivendi got rs!
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