Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-26
Joe SibIey.
With deep affection
And recollection

often think Of
Joseph Croker Sibley Of Pennsylvania,
and SO do many others with whom he
served in congress. So do all others, in
fact, who were brought into associa-
tlon with him. God never gave to any
man more generous heart or a more
lovable character. Everybody regret
ted his quitting congress, which he did
not only voluntarily, but against the
desire of his constituents. In his long
career in the house he never said
cross word to any member, but spoke
words of kindness and did deeds of
kindness wherever he had an oppor-
tunity or wherever lie could make an
opportunity. He was a successful
member and discharged his duties in
diligently and faithfully. Many men
duplicate that. The thing which en-
deared him to many is that he Is Il
lover of his fellow men, quick to rec
ognize their virtues, charitable, almost
blind, to their faults. He is a wealthy
man and dispenses charity not only
cheerfully, but enthusiastically. He
made his money himself, having Ia
bored with his own hands in his
younger days Mt the hardest sort of
work. He looks after his employees
with parental affection, and If all large
employers Of labor treated their en-
ployees as sibley treats his there
would not be another strike while the
world endures. He had as many
friends in the house as any member,
perhaps more. Their benedictions will
rest upon him all his days.
Added.
| There are certain professors in the
| University Of Chicago who appear to
be absolutely added. To use horsy
phrase they are rattle headed. Not
long since one of them declared
that John D. Rockefeller is greater
literary character than Shakespeare.
To John DIS credit be it said that he
promptly squelched that sycophant.
That professor was little later "rais-
ed' Mt his own game by another pro-
lessor, who declared that all religious
songs, hymns, psalms and chants are
mere doggerel. Now comes still an
other, who proposes to establish a de-
partment to teach folks how to make
love. Somewhere, some time, somehow,
there may have been more asinine
suggestion. If so, 1t has escaped OBJ
servation. Why, bless my soul, love-
making was the first lesson learned by
Adam and Eve, and when Gabriel
blows his horn he will interrupt multi
tudes Of Adams SONS popping the old,
old question.
Out In bleeding Kansas they never
tire of politics. Governor Hoch has
just been sworn in for his second term,
but already redhot campaign is on
for the gubernatorial succession. Sew
eral candidates are In the field, ana u
stranger in Kansas would conclude
that the Sunflower State would elect
a governor in few days instead of in
November, 1908. The strangest part
Of the story is that the Kansans fire.
quently grow weary of their governors
during the two year term and refuse
them the Endorsement of a reelection.
Their greatest governor was George
I. Anthony, but he could get only one
term. Bailey had only one, though he
wanted second term very much, and
they came near beating Hoch for re-
election.
So George w. Perkins has refunded
to the insurance company the $4,000
of which he looted 1t to help the Re-
publicans buy the presidency. This
goes to show that even Perkins thinks
that the three supreme court judges
who said he had committed crime
knew more about it than the four
Judges who said he didn't.