Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-12
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co
official Paper OF City and County
Unfit Servants.

~ nave no reason 10 uOuDC Tue HoH-
esty of the attorney general, but he
had just come from long profession
al training aud associations which sun
fitted him to deal wisely with this sub
ject, (raiload regulation) and there
came from his hands into the house
and senate bill which, if it had pas
sed, would have consigned the republi-
can party to eternal disgrace and de-
feat. Senator Cummins.
The bill had the approval of Presi'
dent Taft; some even declare that Taft
himself drew the bill. but We never
have shared this opinion because Taft
has not been able to take time from
speech-making: motoring and golf, to
draw anything more than his salary
and his travelling allowance.
Wickersham, just from Wall street,
drew the bill, and someone has well
said that the man who drew the bill
was greater traitor to the American
people than Benedict Arnold. And be-
tween him who drew and and him who
put forth the bill with his imprimatur
there is no difference inseffect.
This bill the insurgents fought val
iantly against and on nearly every
proposition they supported and were
supported by sufficient number of
democrats to give the enemies of trea-
son and the traitors a majority, so that
as finally passed the bill lacked the
vicious incursions on popular rights
originally proposed.
This is the type of servant Taft has
brought to the ostensible service of the
government-m men having a long pro-
fessional training and association which
units them to deal justly by the peo-
ple, Wickersham in the attorney gen.
erals Office, Ballinger with the faint
of the Morganheims, in the interior
department, and Knox in the state de-
partment, dealing in dollar diplomacy
in the Far East and Central America
for the enrichment Of Wall street.
Nearly as bad as Taft was Roose-
welt, who took into his cabinet Paul
Morton, master rebater; who used the
prince of piratical plunderers and a
practical man like himself, to collect
$3.50, 900 in Wall street, and who con-
tinued Shaw in the treasury to farm
out the nations funds to Wall street
without interest, and when. Shaw quit
elevated Fat Fryer Cortelyou to
position where he could pay back the
banks for aid rendered the campaign
fund
Back of Roosevelt was Mckinley,
good but weak, who turned the nation
over to Mark Hanna and his corporate
cohorts and gave them privilege to
wreak their will on the people ham
strung.
The whole record of republican rule
is chronicle of privilege run riot and
feeding to opulence on the substance
of the people.
Protest against it there is, and from
republicans, too-strength to their
arms! But they are the few-a hand
full in vast assemblage, an insignifi-
cant minority who are heard IN Indi.
ana, Wisconsin, Mime sofa, Nebrask a
Kansas and Iowa, but whose voices are
drowned out and whose counsels are
spurned in all the other states in the
nation.
1t would be glorious thing if we
could hope that all republicans, or a
majority of them, would one day be
fired with the zeal of La Toilette or
Dolliver. But the hope is futile. They
are the Jacobs crying out in the will
derness; the virtuous protesting that
luxury and sensuality are destroying
the republic, and that the ship with
captain and pilots drunk from sense
of power, will run on reef.
The republican party cannot be re-
formedf from within Refo, m ton m lst
come from without in defeat that will
chasten. Telegraph Herald.