Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-11-02

safe in hasing my argument on holy
writ, for the Bible tells us Of dream.
srs. The most noted one was Joseph.
His brothers called him a dreamer
and they plotted to kill him because
Of his dreams. They did go so far as
to sell him into Egypt, but they after
wards went down into Egypt and
bought corn OF him.
"AsI have been looking over the
past year. have come to the conclu-
sion that our party ought to be given
credit forl-a triumph quite like the
triumph Of Joseph. / will not take to
myself the credit OF doing all the
dreaming, for have invented nothing
In the way Of political principles. 4
have simply advocated those princi-
pies which believed to be right, but
our party for .y;sArs has had vision
of reform. It has dreamed Of better
methods OF government, better q poll
cies and better conditions, and now
its dreams are beginning. to be real
ICED. Fourteen years ago, and more,
the party dreamed of an improvement
for the electioniaof senators and it
embodied that dream in resolution
submitting to the people an amend
ment providing for the election of
United States senators by direct vote.
This dream. was endorsed by a, Dem
ocratic congress, and the next con-
gress, also Democratic, endorsed it.
Then we had two Republicantoongress,,
es that did not dream, and they Sad.
journed without adopting the :resolu.
ton. Then we had third Republic
an congress and 1t was so calioused,
by public opinion that 1t had to admit
the truth Of the dreamer's dream and
following the Democratic example a
long way OF 1t finally endorsed the
election Of senators by the people.
Now, some two-thirds of the
states Of the Union declare that
the Democratic dreams ought to be
realized, and Governor Cummins is
one Of the loudest in endorsing the
dream that the Democrats had so
many years ago. But should the gov
ernor be given more credit for seeing
the dream now than the Democrats
deserve. who saw it earlier?
TarlM Reform.
Years ago the Democrats dreamed
Of tariff reform. They saw the class.
o. taxed for the benefit Of the few
and in their vision they pictured a
peoples living according to Gods Law
which adjusts the reward TO the intel
ligent lahprer. They proposed 70
change tho system which the Repub
lican party had inaugurated, and I'm
der which the people have been sc
heavily taxed, that those have grown
richest who labored least and those
have accumulated least who labored
most. Can anyone wonder why the
Democrats have held tenaciously tx
this. vision, =. through victory ant
through defeat? From time to time
Republicans have gotten a glimpse o
this vision and tariff reforms hav,
arisen from time to time. Governo
Cumming is among the recruits VIII,
have come with hating step and at ;
, llimping pace to admit the necessit.
, Ifor reform In sthe tariff. II advocat
ing . thorough going reform, he coult
not claim superiority to our candidate
, Mr.. Porter, who has for many year
1 advocated tariff reform, but the gov
: the tarfn REFORM; sur me- EVEN now az
o yocates At under conditions whic
J. make reform impossible. Even whe
he had control Of thestate convention
D and could have secured any platforr
e that he wanted, he consented to
d platform which began by declarin
uncompromisingly for protection an
r against revenue tariff. There is nc
) a word In his platform that woul
Z offend the men who have grown ric
b leyying taxes upon the classes. Fo
J, the Strengthening OF Governor Gun
oil MINIS platform, he says the tarii
9 should be revised by its friends, bu
I that is fraudulent pretense that ha
o been used for half century to dc
g eeive people. Mr.. Cummins is too IL
I'll telligent man to believe that tn
a beneficiaries OF high tariff will eve
= reform it. He stands almost alon
I among Republican leaders as advt
4 eating 1t. and his advocacy of 1t l
D coupled with conditions that deny t
/ the public the realization of tn
j, action which his words are intende
! to inspire. Among the rank and fl
t Of Republicans there are many tari1
! reformers. but they will find that tn
: Democratic dreamers are the onl
/ ones who proposed feasible reform
, and that is reform by those who sui
: fer rather than by those who profit b,
II The Trust Question.
II 1.-THE Democrats have also dreame,
!. on the trust question, and in thei
} vision they saw eighty millions 0
: people bprdened by a conscience
} less band Of nonep9lists. They trans
: lated their dream inta r,atfoyr
: which demands the annihiiatiea q
!. the prevailing monopolies, root an
8 branch. But the Republicans hay
+ not yet reached point where the
: are willing to accept this solution
Fhey stlll stoy At regulating and re
, restraining, Aitheugh axperie9ce ha
shown, that the trusts regulate tn
4 Republican party more effectivel,
than the party has been able to regu
late the trusts. There was q tim,
. when the methods OF trusts were un
kpsER % the public and when It in
nocestiy thought some Of the trusts
blessing, but experience Gnd aaseryl
tons have taught their lessons an