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ing what Mr.. Mckinley may have said
to the contrary. The party in power, Of
which Mr.. Taft is the head, has no dis
position to rule the Philippines for the
benefit Of the natives. The new tar
if bill, II not changed. will play havoc
with the Philippines. All American
products will enter Manila free of duty
and all Philippine products, save sugar
and tobacco. will come free into Ameri-
can ports. 1t Is like free trade between
Great Britain and Ireland. The greater
Ireland has lost her manufactures
through free trade and the Philippines
can have no manufactures IL American
goods go into the islands free Of duty
Everybody knows that to be fact.
The Filipinos know it and demand free
entry into all ports Of the United
States of Philippine sugar and tobacco
and free entry into all ports or the
Philippines of agricultural and indus
trial machinery and implements, raw
products not produced in the islands
and all material necessary for the COZ.
struction and repairing of vessels. I'm
less the Payne bill gives the Filipinos
square deal, they cannot raise rev.
enue to run a government of their
own, such as 1t is. To make matters
worse, the ways and means committee,
has agreed to an amendment Of the
tariff bill, making rice from the islands
pay a duty.
If President Taft is friend Of the
Filipinos, as he claims to be, he will
never sign such bill as that bearing
the name of Payne, until it is amended
in the interest Of the little brown men
of the Orient. If the F'ilipiEos get no
redress from the representatives of
the trusts in congress, better dispose
Of the Philippines to some power that
will govern them differently. It will
be utterly impossible for the Fill
pinos to maintain a government I'M
der such conditions. Is 1t possible that
this great republic will hold the Phil
ippines at loss of from five to ten mil
lion dollars year, as Mr.. Taft says,
for the sole benefit Of American ex-
ploiters and spectators? Give the Fill
pinos free trade with the United States
and let them raise their revenue upon
imports from all parts of the world,
including the United States. and then
they will get along all right.
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AN ENGLISH EVANGELIST.

According to the Pioneer Press,
Gypsy Smith. who is conducting a re-
vival under the auspices of the Prot
estant churches Of st. Paul is attract
ing big crowds every night. no less
than $500 persons having gone to the
Auditorium last Tuesday night in the
face Of storm of snow, rain and
sleet. From the published reports of
tho discourses of Gypsy Smith, we see
nothing to find fault WITH but much
to commend. Very few Catholics, if
any, attend his meetings. and if they
attend at all, they will hear nothing
derogatory to the Catholic faith from
the lips Of this English evangelist.
Gypsy Smith knows better than to an
tagonize persons of any religious de-
nomination. He breaches what is call
ed Bible Christianity" and though a
Methodist himself. he never speaks of
John Wesley. He cares not for con-
versions from one church to another;
he leaves that to the local ministers
after he has aroused interest in reli-
gion in the minds of his auditors.
Gypsy Smith is capable of attracting
great crowds and interesting them in
the way of salvation. He is salaried
employee Of the National Council of
Evangelist Free Churches Of London,
and receives from that body $4,000 a
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GIVE THEM FREE TRADE.

In the March number of the Ma
tional Magazine. President Taft had an
article entitled Why 1 Went to the
Philippines" in which he declares that
the islands are a burden to the United
States and will continue to be burden
amounting to from five to ten mil.
lions Of dollars annually for an indef-
mite period. In the course of his ar
ticle the president says:
Success must depend on our good
faith in carrying out an altruistic pol
ICY even in holding the Philippines for
the benefit of the Filipinos. The mo-
ment we allow selfish reasons, or mn.
tives of exploitation, to enter into our
insular policy, and d ,ny those people
that to which they are in any way en-
titled, or seek to benefit ourselves at
their expense, then we have departed
from our faith with our brother man,
and have destroyed the premises upon
which William Mckinley based his
judgment that the experiment was one
which under the Providence of God we
were Obliged to undertake, and one
which he believed we could carry to
success
That sounds all right, but what have
we done. and what are we doing for
the benefit Of the Filipinos? We shall
let the Minneapolis Tribune, an ,rtho-
dox Republican paper, answer as fol-
lows:
mot to be out of fashion, we have
been skinning the Filipinos with neat
ness and dispatch for ten squirming
years. We have taken the revenues
Of the islands. divided the hes. part
UP in such salaries as no American
gets in the public service at home and
spent the rest in public improvements
for the profit Of American corporations
and the incidental benefit Of rative
trade. We have shut their products
out of this country at the bidding Of
the tobacco and whisky trusts, after
destroying their original market in
Spain. We have reduced the return
on such goods as they can export to
us by compelling them to pay double
freights to keep American shipping
alive on the Pacific. About the only
contribution We made to the support
of the islands, besides powder and
bullets. was the revenue earned by
American imports in their customs
house
That is plain talk from d Republi-
can paper and every word of it is true.
Were we to state facts SO plainly, our
readers who are Republicans would
hardly believe us. Any one who has
ever read senate document 81. in ref
erence to the acquisition of the Phil:
ippines need not be told that they
were forcibly taken for the benefit of
American corporations, notwithstand-
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wants to be done, and Miller is all
right with that octopus. .-

When asked at meeting of the
Connacht Irish College, at which he
presided, to accept a resolution In
favor of Irish as an essential In the
National University the Archbishop of
Tuan said: "Ill refuse to take any
resolution on the question. / could
not be a loyal bishop and do So" And
when reminded that the people of
Ireland had spoken with no uncertain
voice on the matter, he replied-"The
people of Ireland, indeed. What do
they know about it?" concluding with
II would not give a pinch of snuff
for their opinion" And this is the sue
cessor of Archbishop McHale! The
world does indeed move-backward.
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"a J. a.. Adams. editor Of the Advance,
Congregationalist organ published in
Chicago, says that ministers are
preaching everything. but the gospel"
Mr.. Adams is right but what is he
going to do about it, The ministers
know that their flocks do not want
the gospel, and so they give them what
the want. They feed their sheep with
ichaff, and the sheep find it palatable
to their taste.
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year for his services. He came to the
United States at the invitation of min
isterial associations and church un
ions In various, cities, and since he
began has received so many additional
invitations that his original itinerary
has been greatly extended. He is now
nearing the end of his tour, expecting
to return to England this month.
Financial arrangements for Gypsy
Smiths meetings are very simple. Col
lections are taken at all meetings, and
where a deficit is probable, special
pledges by card are made. One-half
of the total collections goes to the
local committee to defray expenses,
and the other half goes to the English
council. to be used in the world wide
evangelistical work In addition, the
council receives az cents per copy for
Gypsy Smiths hymn books sold during
the meetings. The local committee
provides for his entertainment.
Gypsy Smiths method is peculiar to
himself. He depends largely upon his
own life experiences for material, and
has novel, direct way of presenting
Biblical lessons. He seeks to impress
upon his hearers the Importance Of re-
pentance, and then invites them to the
conference room, which he himself
never enters. 1t is his theory that all
the actual persuasion and adoption in
to the church should be done by the
local workers, so that they may retain
their direct hold on converts; other
wise the minute he left town contact
would be broken. So he merely brings
the penitents to the workers, and they
must do the rest.
He surely earns the salary he re-
ceives, for he is money getter for the
Free Churches of London. According
to official reports, there are in the Eng
lish capital some 100000 persons, who
may be called the dregs of society,
and who never utter the name of God
but in vain. One would suppose that
Gypsy Smith would find plenty work
to do at home among his own coun-
trymen instead Of coming to the Unit
ed States. But the Free Churches Of
London want American dollars and
send him forth at a salary of $4,000
O. year.
Next Monday night he will deliver
his farewell lecture in st. Paul and
take up collection. Twenty five
cents will be charged for seats, and
an immense crowd is expected. The
real name of this London missionary
is Rodney Smith, and he was born 80
years ago in gypsy tent near Epping
Forest. He is undoubtedly drawing
card for the evangelical churches and
throws Billy Sunday and Pat Grove
into the shade. He is man Of good
common sense who thoroughly under
stands human nature. What lasting
benefit results from his preaching,
probably the ministers may know. We
do not.
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Federal Judge Thompson, of Cincin
natl. Ohio, has ruled that Filipino
cannot become a citizen of the United
States. He refused to admit Fill
Pine to citizenship on the ground that
he is not an alien in the sense intend-
ed by the naturalization laws. Fill
pinos are subjects of the United States
and not aliens, and hence they can
not become American citizens. They
are colonists governed by the great
Republic for imperial purposes. In case
OF war; would the Filipino take up
arms for Uncle Sam? He is really Il
man without a country and has no
rights under the American constitu-
ton.
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Who would have thought from his
German or Belgian name that Arch
leans, had Irish blood in him? In ad-
dressing a meeting Of Hiberniars OF
st. Patrick's day in the Crescent City,
the noted prelate said: "That noble
blood courses through my veins; that
all conquering spirit animates my
brain; that faith that has withstood
every shock makes me strong, and you
may feel legitimate pride in belonging
to such a race
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Admiral Cervera, Of the Spanish
Santiago in 1898, died last Saturday
at the age of three score years and
ten. Admiral Cervera showed great
courage and fortitude in disaster and
was gallant son of Spain who won
the respect of the American people.
Lieut.. Hobson, of the Merrimac, had
cause to remember the courtesy and
humanity Of the noble Spaniard.
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The New World says that the poet
and the frog resemble each other in
one thing. Both begin to sing in the
spring of the year. The poet editor of
the New World should be the last tc
mention frog by way Of comparison
with poet. We thought the frog
croaks and the poet sings. What will
the spring poets think of him?
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CELTIC CEMETERY.
National Metropolis Of ireland at Ola

National Metropolis Of ireland at GIas.
nevin.
A visit to Dublin is not complete
without seeing G'asnevin. The great
round tower, 1913 feet high, rising ov.
err the O'Connell crypt, seen from
distance, is bound to demand a query
as to it's origin and purpose. It marks
the tomb of "the Liberator," and with
in the crypt repose also his nearest
relatives. whilst in the vaults sur
rounding TIE tower nearly all his i'm.
mediate political followers or friends
have found their last resting place on
earth. Suitable ep!taphs tell the WISH
tor the special part each played on
life's stage. and especially in the dra-
matte scenes of O'Connell's stormy ca
reer. Honest Tom" Steeles grave
meets the eye as you descend to the
crypt. He was O'Connell's Head Pa
cifcatnr" and whenever there was a
local iespot to be faced, or popular
tumult to be duel'ed, there" says Cav
an Duffy, che insisted was his post"
Sir John Gray Of Freeman" fame,
John Blake Dillon Tho, with Davis
and Duffy established the Nation
Richard Barrett Of the pilot" O'Con-
nelIs favorite organ; Richard O'Gor-
man, DR.. spratt, the celebrated Car
melite; Dr. Cahill. Monsignor Yore,
and Sir Charles Gavan Duffy are
among the vaults that radiate from
their chiefs resting place.
And not far from the tomb Of O'Con-
nell is that of ancther Leader whose
meteoric career still excites surprise
and wonderment - Charles Stewart
Parnell-whose monument In the City
of Dublin will soon peep from its
foundations and thus enhance the
beauty of the leading street in the
metropolis with two great works of the
sculptor's skill-~cne at each end, even
as O'Connell ushered in and Parnell
closed the nineteenth century of Ire
lands history.
John Philpot Curran's granite sar-
cophagus in tho southeastern angle
comes IN for popular favor and resort.
A stranger to TIE cemetery, If he is
already aware Of tie great orators
place Of repose is sure to ask where
is Culran's tomD?"
The sarc ,phagus itself is granted to
be the most classic and striking here
among thousands of monuments to
the dead. it is modelled on that Of
Scipio Bartotus, the conqueror of Han
nibal, preserved in the Vatican Mu-
scum. 1t rests on high granite steps,
is eleven feet long and seven feet
high, rallied in, and bears the simple
inscription on one side "Curran," on
the opposite side "ODt. 1877, Act. g."
The hold his memory has on the
Irish mind is instructive in its graft.
tude. He was the advocate of Catho.
lie claims in the Irish Parliament, the
friend Of Grattan, The eulogist of the
Volunteers. the champion Of every
good cause O'Cnnnell's words There
never was so honest an Irishman," is
confirmed in the reverence with which
his tomb is still visited. The poetic
side of Irish nature is stirred, too, by
the "reminiscences with which his
name is bound up with his daughter
Sarah, the fiance of Robert Emmett,
the ill-fated young leader of the 1903
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Archbishop Ireland has returned
from Europe after an absence of four
months. He sailed directly from
France to the United States AMI did
not visit the British Islands. The Dub
the movements of his grace Of ST.
Paul.
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The new congressman from the D

The new congressman from the Du-
sluth district, Attorney Clarence B.
miller, who defeated Adam Bede for
re election, has made a big blunder in
supporting Joe Cannon and breaking
the pledges he made during the cam
Hpaign. Bede was handicapped by
STANDING too close to Cannon and Mill
SSer made the. most of it, Instead of
Opposing the czar, as Lindberg, Davis,
HSteenerson and Volstead did, Miller
cast his lot with the Danville man.
Time will tell what his constituents
think of his action. But his consti-
gtuents will do whatever the Steel trust
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The New York Herald has included
in it's list of the ten greatci:t Ameri
cans the name of Andrew Carnegie Of
Skibo Castle. The name of James j.
Hill was omitted.
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In the House of Commons the other
day, some members Of parliament de-
rlared that King Edward Travelled too
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GA19Esl gss2 e eyEtD
%oENiNEIss

In Kentucky, last Monday, 96 OF the
119 counties of the state went wholly
dry" under the county unit law.
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to any part of the United States. 10
Ireland and other foreign countries the
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Father VIM. Mcmahon. the editor of
the Universe at Cleveland, Ohio, is
the victim of the Fidelity Funding Co.,
which was engineered into bankrupt
cy by a financial promoter named
Herman whom the good priest took
for an honest business man. Father
Mcmahon became a director OF the
company to give 1t prestige and signed
papers from which he derived no fin
ancial benefit. He is now held re-
sponsible to the extent of $1,500,000
by the courts. Everybody will sympa-
thize with him but it takes money to
straighten out matters.
A spread-eagle orator of the East,
in lauding the Irish of the Revolution,
referred to Patrick Henry as an Irish
man. The Irish have no just claim to
the eloquent virginian. He was Of
Scotch descent. Many Scotchmen in
past times bore the name of Patrick.
The Irish have great number of the
worlds best orators and can we'll af-
ford to let the Scotch have Patrick
Henry. The Caledonians have pro-
duced great men in every department
of science and literature, bu1 they are
rather short on orators, compared
with the English and Irish. Let them
have Patrick Henry. by all means.
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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Mems Department

Coats, plush lined and plain and fancy cloth
Overcoats, as we'll as all winter suits at less than
YOU have ever bought goods of this kind before.
We do not want to carry any heavy goods
and these low prices will surely move them.
100 pair of mems heavy blue overals, on
sold at 75c and we'll made forthis sale, pr UUC
An Al! Of our mems 50 and Coo Work Shirts A0c
Boys Knee Pants, heavy cotton, the In
Mems caps and mittens at big reduction.
Mems Flannel Shirts at 25 per cent discount.
Mems President suspenders, now.......... SIC
Mems Heavy Sox, plain or fancy, 15c n
Mems and young Mems Suits, solde1n nm
at $25 to $50, now. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. OZUIUO
Mems and young Mems Suits sold O. nm
$1S to $50 now.. d uU
:. Mems den and and young Mems Suits sold SI0nn
at S15, " UBUO
Mems as and young ., Mems Suits sold 81 hn
at $1o and S12 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. D IVU
Mems Overcoats at same discounts. All Suits
and overcoats guaranteed to give entire satisfac
ton to the wearer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
WooIUnderWear and Hosiery

WOOlUnderWear andHosiery
at big discounts; if you need anything i'll these
goods look over large stock and get
prices.
All Knit and Wooden Goods at a big discount
during this sale.
Table Linens and Napkins at 25 per cent
duction in price.
Fleece lined goods sold at 15c and lSc, ~
zU
All our 1219c Fleeced goods........... 49,. Ul1
Heavy, yard wide Percales, 121ac value s1I,
We offer you in many different patterns the
heaviest and finest Tennis Flannel you ever pur-
chased at 1214c, on this sale NJ
lighter wei ght Tennis at SC.
Crashes aud Towelings of all kinds included in
this sale.
Wastings in Wool and Cotton at a big re-
ducton.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Shoes! Shoes!

For this sale we offer our entire line of Mems
Women's and Children's Shoes at big reductions
Our entire line of Womens Felt Lined shoes,
sold from l 50 to 200. We offer in 0I 1E
this sale Observation-Disclosures. ......... OIIxJ
On our better grades of Mems and Women's
Shoes from So to SIS pair, offer SOC each
pair as sale discount, including DR.. Reeds for
Men and the famous Queen Quality for Women
and all other makes at the same discount
Overshoes and heavy footwear of all kinds re-
duced for this sale
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-11
GOVERNMENT NOTICES

OFFICE OF THE CONSTRUCTING
ouartermaster, Fort Omaha. Nebraska,
March 6, lSe.-Sealed proposals In tripli-
cate. subject TO the usual conditions will
be received at this office until II o'clock
a. m, central standard time. April Z, 1909.
and then opened in public for constructing,
plumbing, heating, electric wiring and cleo
tric fixtures for the following buildings at
Fort Omaha, Nebraska; one double bar
rack, one stable. one stable guard and
nation furnished on application. United
states reserves the right TO reject any or
All bids. Envelopes containing proposals to
he marked. Proposals for constructing.
etc. buildings at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, %
and addressed TO Captain C.. de +. Chand-
Ter. Constructing quartermaster, Fort
Omaha, Nebraska NJ, s-s-lOl Ae-S
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-11
DRYs WIN in IOWA HOUSE
Resolution for constitutional PrOhI-
bftiOn Passes by Vote of
IS TO SO.

DIES MONIES, Ia. March l0.-The reso-
luton calling for a vote OF the state upon
an amendment TO the constitution In favor
OF the prohibition Of intoxicating liquors
passed the lower house OF the Iowa legis-
lature this afternoon by a vote of IS ayes
and IS nays. The house took up the ques-
tion Of the passage OF the resolution az the
opening this morning and the discussion
on II merits continued until 1:45 this after
noon, when the final vote was taken.
Amendments to pay damage for loss OF
property to brewers; to strike seven words
OF surplusage and TO include hard cider
were all voted down. Should the resolution
vote until 1911.