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The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1908-12-18
1t Wastes Their Time

The great inroad made upon the time and therefore
upon the wages of workngmen, by the Of alcohol is
suggested by statistics secured by Dr. Rosemann
the Of investigation of accidents in one of
the mining districts Of Austria The statistics for the
five years, 189919O3 show that the average amount of
wages lost by the workmen account of unnecessary
and unexcused' absences from work on the day after
ordinary working day 25 per cent; on the day
succeeding advance payment Of wages it 6.3 per
cent, and after the regular pay day per cent.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1908-12-18
Liquor Men Talk "ROt"

The annual meeting of the National Liquor League
at Washington, has brought out views that
decidedly interesting, if not important, says recent
editorial in the Indianapolis News For thing the
League is going to seek compensation for it's property
under the ordinance of 1887, which states that should
public exigences make it necessary for the
preservation to take person property demand his
particular service full compensation shall be made for
the Rather ''binding'' if saloon property has
to be taken for the common preservationD
1t useless to argue the case since the League is to
peal to the United States Supreme Court to get damages
for the saloon keepers in this state Ohio Illinois, Mich
igan and Wisconsin, Of the position Of the
liquor traffic has been often defined by courts that
there will be trouble in expounding the fact again
that the traffic only exists sufrance, and not by
right and that the inherent power Of the law ample to
restrict withdraw the privilege at any time.
Another Queer Notion
Another Of the queer views that the col
lected from the liquor traffic paid for the and navy
departments and the postal deficiency What meant
that it equal to these things We wish it
sufficient pay all the expenses Of the government, for
the matter Of that but that has nothing to do with the
case
If the liquor traffic should be entirely wiped out so
that the government did not derive cent from the
laid it, that would be simply change of
form, not of fact. The paymaster would be the same,
simply adds the Of the to the price of the
goods and the consumer pays both. And If the con-
sumer-which is all the peope-were relieved from the
court, jail and police expenses caused directly by
the liquor traffic, think how much more he would be IN
pocket to pay for the government by tax In
some other shape take the place Of that which he
pays through the liquor dealer!
AS straight road to economy the League must con-
fess that nation could make money faster than by
restricting the traffic to the minimum
Third Of the Queer Ideas
The third curious notion advanced implied was in
the announcement Of the presentation Of gave made
from wood from the general store in Illinois where is
said Abraham Lincoln sold liquor What has this to do
with anything? Under other great President George
Washington, lotteries ourshed all hands and Gen
eral Washington patronzed them Human slavery also
existed, and General Washington Shareholder.
Does that make for the morality Of slavery and lot
teres?
boco nc do tho Twin Pao-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
FROM TIE
COMMONER
AMERICA AND CHINA.
MIR. BRYANS PAPER

The president in his message urging
the building of four warships attempts
to use China as an argument in favor
of big navy plan. He says: ut
would be equally foolish to rely upon.
each of them possessing at all times
and under all circumstances and prov
ocations an altruistic regard for the
rights of others. Those who hold this
view are blind indeed to all that has
gone on before their eyes in the world
at large. They are blind to what has
happened in China, in Turkey, in the
Spanish possessions, in Central and
South Africa during the last dozen
years.
For centuries China has cultivated
the very spirit which our peace-at-any-
| price men wish this country to adopt.
For centuries China has refused to
| provide military forces and has treated
| the career of the soldier as inferior In
| honor and regard to the career of the
merchant or the man of letters. There
never has been SO large an empire
which for so long time has SO reso-
lutely proceeded on the theory OF do
ing away with what is called mill.
tarism.
"In external affairs the policy has
resulted in various other nations now
| holding large portions of Chinese ter
ritory, while there is very acute feaI
| in China lest the empire, because OF
Its defenselessness, be exposed to alb
solute dismemberment, and its well
wishers are able to help it only In
small measure, because no nation cal
help any other unless that other cal
4 help itself"
4 1t is strange that the presiden
should attempt to make the absurt
mistake of attributing China's posi-
ton to an overweening desire TO
, peace. 1t is not China's lack of mill
tary enthusiasm that has caused he
; misfortunes. 1t is the fact that sh'
has been the abode of ignoranc
and selfishness. A few of her pee
pie have had little learning, and hav
run the government on the graft sy'
tenn while the masses have dwelt i
I ignorance, and have been taught tn
t philosophy in which each one look
a out for himself and the devil for tn
q hindmost But to compare the Unite
y States with China. Turkey. Spain an
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

find those who are employed by the
railroad engineers, firemen, conduc-
tors, brakemen, trainmen, station
agents, freight handlers, etc. 1t is
customary for the managers to
appeal to the employees about cleo
ton time, when an attempt is being
made to elect some official friendly
to the management The usual meth
cd of coercion is to threaten reduc-
ton of wages if the railroad is not
able to select the officials.
The employees, however-and they
constitute the real voting strength of
the railroad element-ought to know
by this time that the man selected by
the managers is seldom friendly to the
employees. In all matters affecting
labor, the man who obligates himself
to the railroad management is opposed
to anything that the employees ask for,
although the employees may have been
coerced into supporting him when .
candidate.
If the railroad employees want .
law making the railroads liable for
injuries to employees, they must find
their support from the farmers, labor.
ers in the cities and the public gen.
orally, for the men elected by the rail-
road influence are almost as unit
against such legislation.
And so if the railroad employees
want relief from government by in
junction, they cannot hope for It
from the men elected by railroad in
fluence. They ought by this time to
understand that their real friends are
! the people who want justice to all, and
who believe that the railroad EN-.
ployes are entitled to the relief which
they seek.
When an effort was being made to
, secure a reduction in passenger rates,
the railroad managers threatened the
employees with wage reduction, if the
| rate bills passed, but reduced passep-
ger rates increase traffic, and In
creased traffic makes demand for
more trainmen, and the employees will
find it to their advantage to favor
that which helps the public.
| So with the proposition to prevent
watered stock. If part of the rail
road earnings must go to pay divi
4 dends on stock which represents nc
investment in money, smaller sum ii
left for legitimate expenses. The rail
road employees have interest in com
mon with the general public, and the!
need not fear that reductions Will b!
carried to a point where honest rail
reading will be injured. The employees
will be better off when railroad man
ayers are compelled to earn thei
money by attending to the business Q
the road and not by exploiting tn.
public through the stock market.
The Democratic party stands for jus
Gee to railroad employees, to the stock
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

South Africa Is to ignore essential diff
ferences. Our nation is the most ad,
yanced nation in the world; its people
are intelligent and well-informed. Our
nation has abundant resources and our
people have an enormous productive
power. We have an ocean on either
side to protect us against attack, and
no nation is foolish enough to invite
a conflict. If there is any nation that
does not need to impoverish its people
with preparations for imaginary war,
our nation is that nation. Not only do
we need less protection than any other
nation, but our ideals forbid that we
should enter into the mad race for
physical power that has led other ma
lions to decay.
The president and other naval en-
thusiasts advocate gigantic navy on
the ground that it promotes peace.
The theory is antagonistic to all that
religion teaches or that history proves.
The very spirit that leads us to rely
upon q big navy will lead us to use it..
Some regard the parade of our ships
around the world as an exhibition of
our strength 1t is to be hoped that
this is not the real reason for the
trip that they are taking. If this was
the reason, why should not other ma
lions parade their ships, and how long
would these parades continue before
they would result in conflict? Men
who load themselves down with
weapons and go out to exhibit their
preparedness for any encounter are
very apt to ind an excuse for shoot
ing. Our nation is to be congratulated
upon the fact that the president, with
all his influence, was not able to force
his four battle-ships plan through eth
er house, and the Democrats can find
qualification in the fact that their po
sition on this subject is 80 sound that
they could secure large Republican
support for it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

In an editorial printed in the Louis
vile Courier-Journal and entitled "The
Political Outlook" Henry Watterson
says: "The time has passed for some
one else, Mr.. Bryan retaining the field;
1t is too late for some one else the
conditions what they are; and confess
that | am in sympathy with Mr.. Bryan
in refusing to be ruled off the track by
a group of New York politicians, whose
motives are, to say the least of them,
suspicious, which will support no ticket
except one framed by themselves, and
which do not agree with one another
touching the ticket to be named. What
ever his claims may be, or may not be,
Mr.. Bryan has the right, and no
thoughtful man can, or will say, that
ne can not be elected, the ipse dixit
equally of the unthinking, the inter-
ested and the prejudiced to the contrary
being OF no weight whatever. But
among democrats, who know why they
are democrats, there ought to be other
and higher considerations; some arrest
OF the breakneck speed on the highway
toward the GENERALIZATION of power;
some real and not spurious purpose
toward tariff reform; some sure sepa-
ration of the politics of the country
from its partnership with high fnnnce
and the high financiers; some breaking
up OF the groups and rings, of wheels
inside of wheels, always involved by a
change Of parties, even when made
only for the sake of a change. The
Confessional is democrat, not
republican, and, standing by the sin
cerity of Its record, it will support the
ticket to be headed by Mr.. Bryan, as
actively and as earnestly as if it rep
resented its original preference and
opinion"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
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SECRETARY TAFT MIsoUoTED.

Secretary Taft claims that he has
been misquoted. He did not say that
I'VE must look forward to gigantic
controversy between labor and cap
ital;" he was quoted as saying this,
but as expressing the hope that it
would be peaceably settled. What
he said was: THAT unless laborers
united into organizations, the labor
er would stand no chance in that in
evitable controversy that we always
hope will be peaceful. but that must
exist-that inevitable controversy as
to how labor and capital shall share
the joint product of BOTH
The Commoner is glad to aid in set.
ting Mr.. Taft right before the public,
for it can appreciate the annoyance
of incorrect reports of speeches.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
SOCIALIST CANDIDATES.

For United States Senator !,
John M. Work of Des Moines, Polk county.
For Presidential Electors at Large
N. P. Atlas of Davenport Scout county.
Joseph M. Mohr of Marshalltown, Marshall county
For Governor
4. s. McCrillis of Des Moines, Polk county.
For Lieutenant Goyernor-
Ernest Holtz OF Dubuque, Dubuque county.
For Secretary OF State
William Strauss of Burlington, Pes Moines county.
For Auditor of State =
Ernest G. Pierce of Sioux City, Woodbury. county.
For Treasurer of State
Henry Taylor Of Greenfield; Adair county.
For Attorney General
I. F. Willis of Carnda, Page county.
For superintendent of Public Instruction
Lena Biltermau of Avery Monroe county,
For Clerk of SUI reme Court, Ito fill Vacancy
j. S. Daggett of Creston, Union county.
For Railroad Commissioner
L. M. Hawver, Jr., of Waterloo, Black Hawk county,
For Representative in Congress- Fourth District
Q. j. Thorgrmson of DEBORAH, Winneshiek county.
COUNTY OFFICES
For County Treasurer
p. A. Waness of Cresco.
For County Recorder
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
THE RAILROAD VOTE.

There are increasing indications
that some of the railroad managers
are going to attempt to organize the
railroad vote for the purpose of throw
ing it against any party which at
tempts railroad regulation. The rail-
road vote can be divided into two
classes. One class contains officials
those who collect and handle the
money which the railroads earn
these are the men who have made
railroad management odious by their
contempt for the public and by their
indifference to the interests of the
stockholders. In the second class we
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.

Mr.. James T. Lloyd, Democratic
member of congress from Missouri,
has been made chairman of the DEM
ocratic congressional committee, and
has in charge the campaign that is
being prosecuted for the election of a
Democratic congress. The work of
this committee is scarcely second to
the work of the national committee,
for without a house of representatives.
Democratic administration is help.
less. With a Democratic house o. rep.
resentatives the president Is able to
bring pressure to bear upon the sen.
ate, for the president and the house
working together can present issues
to the senate and focus public opin'
ion upon remedial legislation.
Mr.. Lloyd's committee is a dem.
ocratic committee-a COMMITTEES com.
posed Of real Democrats who are
welded to Democratic ideas, and who
are making fight for Democratic re.
forms. That being true, the commit.
tee has no disposition to collect funds
from predatory corporations, and
could not secure such contributions It
, 1t desired to. 1t must make its fight
upon the contributions sent In by the
Democrats who are interested in Dem
ocratic success. The Commoner,
therefore, appeals to Its readers to
send contributions to Mr.. Lloyd for
the carrying on of this work. The
! Democratic fight ought to be made by
the rank and file of the party; small
sacrifice on the part of each Democrat
| would enable the committee to sup
ply the necessary literature and gel
the party records before the public.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

The report that La Toilette would
come into Iowa to speak in Cummins
behalf probably had no basis of truth,
and has been denied. La Toilette is
not in Cummins debt, Cummins having
gone into Wisconsin to speak in eulogy
Of Senator Spooner, La Follette's
political enemy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
Cummins, Porter and the Molesberr,
Bill.

The Molesberry bill, defeated in the
Iowa legislature, would have permitted
New Jerseyizing" of Iowa by repeal
ing the Iowa law fixing the limit of
corporate debt, enabling railroads char
tered here to issue watered stock prac-
ticafly in any sum.
After the bill had been put through
the house and senate, Governor Cum
minis vetoed it. Speaking 5he other
day, he said: s&
I said to somebody that !, could not
favor that measure. And then began
the most vigorous attack upon me |
think that was ever made upon an ex-
ecutive of state. My office swarmed
with representatives, not8only of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway
company, but nearly every other rail
way company in the state. They came
to argue, they remained to cajole, they
stayed longer to threaten. vetoed
that bill, and from that time until now
every railway company in the state OF
Iowa, make no exception whatever,
every railway manager in the state Of
Iowa has been engaged in doing what
your esteemed townsman thinks
should do for myself. They have usee
all the power they possess to eliminat,
me from public life. But am still
alive. And it is one of the queer thing
/ never could understand, that in thi
territory, through which this railroad
runs, nearly every newspaper has bee
opposed to me-"
The governor is deserving of credi
for the courage to stand out agains
and defy the railroad political power i
this state. His veto of that measur
is one of the acts to which he ma
justly point in proof that as betwee
the railroads and the people he is fo
the people.
But there were other public men VIII
opposed the Molesberry bill, and one o
these is Claude Porter, who will be in
dorsed for United States senator in tn
June primary. When the measur
came up for consideration in the senate
in the absence of ex-senator Healy
who was to lead the fight against tn
measure, Claude Porter led it, an
when the vote was taken Claude Porte
voted against lit, and thereby wrot
himself down as incorruptible an
courageous, and of the will to stan
with the people against corporate.privi
lege.
We do not see that as between Cum
minis and Porter democrats can hav
other choice than Porter. Telegraph
Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

Paul Morton quit the Sante Fe direc-
torate to go into the cabinet, thereby
winning President Roosevelt's friend
ship and immunity to prosecution for
rebating, and quitting the cabinet be-
came head of the Equitable Life. Now
ne has gone back on the Santa Fe
directorate.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

noiders and to the public, whose
patronage enables the railroads to ex-
list. No legitimate business will be
injured by Democratic success, and
the railroad employees will stand in
their own light if they allow them
selves to be deceived by the men who
have been manipulating the railroads
for the building up of enormous for
tunes. All that the public demands is
that the railroads shall recognize their
quasi-public character and discharge
the important duties that devolve
upon them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATES.

For United States Senator
William b. Allison, of Dubuque Dubuque county.
Albert B. Cummins, of Des Moines Polk county.
For Presidential Electors at Large
Thomas T. Anderson, of Indlanola, Warren county.
John H. Anundson, of Mason City, Cerro Gordo county.
w. w. Copeland, of Burlington, Des Mones county.
S. B. Packard of Marshalltown, R. R. g. Marshall county
For Governor
B. F. Carroll, of Bloomfield, Davis county.
Warren Garst of Coon Rapids Carroll county.
John j. Hamilton, of Des Moines, Polk county.
For Lieutenant Governor-
George W. Clarke of Abel, Dallas county.
Bernard Murphy, of Vinton, Benton county.
James 81. Wilson, of Menlo, Adair county.
For Secretary of State
W. G. Hayward, of Davenport Scott county.
For Auditor of State
John L. Beakly, of Ida Grove Ida County.
r. M. Hopkins, of Guthrie Center, Guthrie county.
For Treasurer of State--
W. W. Morrow, of Alton, Union county.
For Attorney General
b. w. Byers, of Harlan Shelby county.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
Owen j. McManus, of Council Bluffs, Pottawatamie Co.
John F. Riggs, of Sigourney, Keokuk county
For Clerk of Supreme Court Ito fill vacancy
e. L. Bousquet of Knoxville, Marion county.
For Railroad Commissioner
Joseph Cockfeld, of Cedar Rapids, Linn county.
Nathaniel s. Kechum of Marshalltown Marshall county
Frank H. Keys, OF Council Bluffs Pottawattamie county.
For District Presidential Elector Fourth District
D. 81. Bowen, of Waukon Allamakee county.
O. D. Ellis OF Charles City, Floyd county.
For Representative IN Congress, Fourth District
Gilbert N. Haugen, OF Northwood, Worth county.
For State Representatives
Jacob w. Kemme of Elma, Howard county.
COUNTY OFFICES.
For County Auditor
Geo. L. Champln of Cresco.
John FL. Jones of Cresco
F. r. Lawson of Chester
For County Treasurer
John Kakac of Cresco.
w. A. Wildman of Cresco.
Arthur L. White of Cresco.
For Clerk District Court
F. c. Blandin of Riceve.
Thos. j. Hooper of Paris township.
Anthony Marshall of Vernon Springs township.
For Sheriff.
s. S. Culver of Cresco.
For County Recorder
Chr. Forthun of Oak Dale township
For County Attorney
Carl W. Reed of Cresco
10 I'LL vacancy, Carl w. Reed of Cresco
For County Superintendent
Sarah q. Brown of Cresco.
For County Surveyor
w. L. Richards of Cresco.
For Coroner
Geo. A. Plummer of Cresco.
For Member of Board of Supervisors Second
!. 81. Watson of Howard township. -D' -
For Member of Board of Supervisors Third District
". q. Fox OF Jamestown township.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15
PROHIBITION CANDIDATES,


For United States Sepatop-=
Malcolm Smith OF Cedar Rapids Linn county.
For Presidential Electors at Large
L. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge Webster county. S
Julius Carleton MeCasliA Of Keokpk Lee county.
Aaron Stalker of Richland Keokuk county.
For Gopernor--
K. w: Brown of Ames, Story county
oren p, Elicit Of Marshatown, Marshsll county.
For Lieutenant aoperna,'--s
John W. Leedy of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county.
For Secretary of State
Howard M. Humphrey of Lake City, Calhoun county
For Auditor of State
John D. Collins of Sac City, Sac County.
For Treasurer of State
Charles 6 Bacon Of WILTON Junction, Museatne county
For Attorney General
T. A. Harvey of Perry, Dallas county.
For Superintendent Of Public Isstruetjo,,-
p. R. DUNCAN Of les Moines, Rolk COURT.
For Clerk of Supreme Court, ito fill yacaney1-
G. F. Paine of Fayette, Fayette county.
For Railroad Commissioner
p. - BENNETT OF Winterset Madison county.
For District Presidential glector, Fourth psstrict-
Andrew F. Smith of Castalia Wippeshiek county,
For Representative in Congress, Fourth DISTRICT
j. o. Smith of oelwein Fayette county.
For State Representative
Magnus Leslie OF Chester, Howard county.
COUNTY OFFICES.
For County Auditor
A. J. Baerman of Lime Springs
For County Treasurer
Edward T. Jones Of Albion township
For Clerk of the District Court
John 7. Williams Of Lime Springs.
For County Record der
w. B. Perry Of Cresco.
For County Superintendent
w. W. Williams of Lime Springs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

When Mr.. Tener Of Pennsylvania
takes seat in congress he will find his
former experience as baseball pjtch-
er handy. He will have to perform
some mighty curves in order to get
anything worth while past Speaker
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-15

The war department has issued an
order that no officer shall be chosen
who stands less than five feet five
inches in height. Time was when
such an order would have barred a
couple of men who made big military
reputations-Napoleen Bonaparte and
Phil Sheridan,