Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-07-05

and ifue--EN,cholas and the Douma. IS
So 50 50 50 50 50 50
aoued. however. ..Islie the American peo-
pie will not grasp the value of that ac-
QUESTION for o third OF a century yet"
This shows that Seward, the empire
builder, was also O prophet. Seward has
been dead for thirty-five years. and 1t Is
only in recent times that his countrynlen
have appreciated the Importance OF Alas
ka as q possession. Strong opposition was
offered in the house of Representatives In
1867 to making the appropriation OF ST.
100000, the price which Seward paid to
Russia for the province. Said one of an
nexation's opponents in that chamber,
IAN that Alaska will ever be able to pros
duce are polar bears and icebergs. For
several years nickname for the region
was Stewards Folly" But time has vim
dictated Seward.
Orchard.
Since that Ill starred performance of
Ananias and his spouse Sapphire no
such liar as Orchard has appeared
among men. Sydney Smith, OF witty
and therefore of blessed memory, once
declared that "a certain English chief
Justice was a great fraud because no.
body could by any possibility be as
wise as that man looked. Since Adam
and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit,
whence all our woes, there have been
many bad men In this world, but not
one SO bad as Orchard represents him
self to be- If they will keep him or
the witness utand long enough, lie will
probably claim that he is the mysteri-
ous and hitherto undiscoyera BILE per-
son who swatted William Patterson,
that he 1t was who fred the Epheslan
dome and that he murdered old man
Nathan In New York He may have
told some truth, but he has lied so
amazingly that anything he says is
incredible simply because he says 1t
unless thoroughly corroborated at ev-
cry point, for surely he did not commit
all the crimes he confesses.
One OF the unfortunate features or
necessities OF criminal procedure is the
fact that sometimes the evidence of
accompllces must be used in order to
secure righteous convictions. AS pros.
ecuting attorney sometimes was
forced to convict men that j believed
to be guilty by using the evidence Of
accomplices, but I always disliked ex-
ceedingly to do it. But surely Orchard
Is the limit.
Gar and Douma.
Whether any Bourbon blood flows in
the veins of Gear Nicholas / do not
know, not being genealogist, but ii
may be safely asserted that he pos
sesses one Of the Bourbon Characters
tics-he learns nothing. That fact is
quite likely to cost him his throne,
perhaps his head also. If history
teaches any one thing more than an
other, It is that when great people
make up their minds to be free they
will sooner or later,succeed. How many
English tyrants dissolved how many
English parliaments is not at this mo.
ment remembered, but parliaments
continued to assemble, and after rev0.
lutions and bloodshed, some OF royal
blood, there convened parliament
which was master Of the king, and
Englishmen were free. Charles I. was
much such man as Nicholas, and ev-
erybody knows what happened to him.
The story of England was In many re-
spects repeated In France later on.
Louis XVI. was an amiable sort OF
king as kings 60. He spent his leisure
in making locks to such an extent that
he came to be known as "the lock.
smith" He seems to have possessed
the domestic and private virtues to a
large extent for q king, but he repre-
scented bad system, and he lost his
head for It. The sins Of his ancestors
were visited upon him. Talleyrand said
that Louis made a dozen concessions
to the people any one Of which would
have saved his life and his throne had
1t been made twenty four hours sooner,
It's a wonder that no king ever has
sense enough to read the handwriting
on the wall and to yield gracefully to
the Inevitable. There must be dis
ease peculiar to monarchs which
should be named royal blindness.
Nothing is more certain than that Rus
sia will be free. y 4
T HN .