Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-11


the Philippines and will have Cuba. for
no one believes that the United States
will be able to let go of that island now
that it has once gotten hold of it. These
are far-distant lands. already peopled
by strange races. vastly inferior races.
They must be governed by us or taught
by us to govern themselves, but under
no consideration should we allow them
to govern us. A colonial system oil
government is the only sensible ar
rangement Let the Bureau for the Col
onies be established Immediately.
RoPEAN. AND AMERICAN LIFE.
After reading the letter from Russia
in the r.. of yesterday, furnished by
our keen and discriminating corre-
spondent aw heel, American citizens are
more content than ever With their own
free country. All his letters from the
various nations of Europe have given
readers a fair estimate of life among
the common people there-which seems
narrow and circunlscribed and eN-
tremely frugal as compared with the
vide liberty, privileges and bounty OF
Iour own. Our government touches the
people at so few points in their lives
tina they are scarcely conscious of its
existence 1t almost reaches the ideal
icondition in this respect. While It IN
vokes their love and loyalty and stiiau-
ilates their ambition and pride in the
effort to reach still better grounds
Through education and higher life,
/ Freedom is so liberal and privileges
ARE so expansive that they permit the
largest development of individual life.
j The chief evil growing out Of it is the
advantage it also gives the dissolute
and criminal classes TO move about and
like by the bounty and charity Of thu
/ well-to- do. Passage from one point 70
fanother and from one state to another
lis 50 easy Of accomplishment that il
fosters this class and furnishes prob
8lem thatis yet only in the initial stages
5Aof solution BUTT win coma in time j
people are true to their best motives
lit suggests better home life ard train:
ing for youth. Thorough training /
richly rewarded. There never was
period in our history when the demant
was 50 great for skilled hands anS
Il brains. Another phase is that eompe.
sItition is so free and keen in all walk:
Of life that more complete training j!
necessary to reach the highest degree
of success. There is hardly such slim
Hulus in the older. more conservative
ana fixed conditions Of life in Europe
Every American citizen will fin.
asundant reasons 10 be more conten
with his own environments and proude
If his nation as a factor in securing tn
greatest amount of contentment an
Happiness.
THE ELECTION AND SENATOR
SHIP.
Now that the election is over, at til
: risk of appearing inlmodest, the Times
: Republican desires to cali the attentio
of its. readers to the various ante-elee
r ton claims and estimates made by tn
! leading papers and by the managers
!. The senatorial bureau and by the stat
! committee. This paper took the pos
+ ton early in the campaign that thel
vas nothing this year To induce II
ii doubtful voter 70 vote the democrat
: ticket; that the drift WAS away fro'
!. democracy, not toward ii. We took tn
s position because il seemed TO US tn;
$ democracy had Lost sight of its fund.-
y mental principles, and had become
: headless and brainless organization
n without any aims and without eXcu
if for existing. lmbued with this bell
Z and banking on the good sense al
le sterling patriotism of the people
a. Iowa it was unwilling TO believe tn
il Governor shaw's majority would
Al less than 10000. This seemed to be Il
l. natural logic Of events. and it was.
In the legislature the Gear Poop
j. claimed 10. the cummins people II
It the capital city papers 40. The T.
\ conceded % the opposition ten su
j. counties and said that if the dem
IN cratic strength exceeded twenty-s
N votes ii would be due 70 faction
q fights and 10 the senatorial quarrel
10 these ten counties Ne conceded twel
nj representatives. and including t
e. shold overs. fourteen senator's, a
III Daeis-A pranoose. The democrats :
h caire elsht"en representatives and
81 teen senator's. But We lose represent
/ tlves in Mascatine, Plymouth. Har
in son, Henry and Lyon o. Brien, all
e publican counties. In Henry there "
ii a faetional fight and in the other fc
IL districts the senatorial quarrel is
n sponslble for republican defeat
ed the Clarke Warren the defeat of Sci
Ter tor Berry is due to both causes. A stu
IS of the situation will show how ell
set the T.-R. came to the result.
IS In Des Moines county we claimed