Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-14

TOPICS OF THE TIMES ]


business.
The New England Beet Sugar COM
pany will erect a 100000 plant at North
Judson. Indiana. Step by step the beet
is marching on to sugarland.
Iowa will shout a welcome to Presi-
dent Mckinley as he enters the state
next week.
A cartoon represents John Bull sit
ting on the fence on the Transvaal bor-
der, u in hand, with ultimatum shells
exploding around mis- ears, and saying,
Il see I've got to shoot or get off the
fence" He is down now aiming at the
Beers.
The British will fight the stolid and
stone-wall Boer while the Americans
are catching the elusive Filipino flea.
SO
Judge David B. Culberson, OF Texas,
many years chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, says the proceed
ure to prevent Congressman-elect Rob-
erts, of Utah, from taking his seat will
be simple. The roll of the states will
be called in alphabetical order and the
delegations of representatives will APP
pear in front of the speaker of the
house to take the oath. Nearly all the
members will be sworn in before Utah
is reached, and When Utah is called and
Mr.. Roberts appears, all thai is neces-
sary will be for some member to say,
Il object, Mr.. Speaker" and the speak
er would then request Mr.. Roberts to
stand aside. If objection Is made to
Mr.. Roberts taking the oath, his c%ertifi-
to the committee on elections. Now the
question is, will any one take the in
itiative n object?
Although large numbers of police and
detectives nave been at work night and
day in New York city to obtain clues
of the murder in the case of the oma
a part of whose leg was recently found,
they have not succeeded in obtaining
any satisfactory information.
1t is not at all probable that any Eu-
ropean government Will interfere be-
tween the English and the Beers.
ss
The New York Tribune concludes an
article on the T%ransvaal ultimatum
with this expression of opinion: The
world will look upon h catastrophe of
war in South Africa with inexpressible
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regret, and Will regard IS as a needless
and wanton wrong upon humanity.
But it will not charge responsibility
therefor against the great power which
has wrought justice to Boer and Briton
alike in its own domain, and has de-
manded nothing more than Justice for
Briton and Boer alike in the domain of
Its dependent"
on Dewey day at Three Oaks, Mich,
Miss Helen Gould will unveil the Span
lsh gun captured by Dewey. and won
by the village.
The Louisville Courier-Journal adj
mits that a kentucky crowd may have
tried to charter a train in order to lynch
q negro. bur 1t claims that it a a New
York crowd that captured an excursion
steamer in ORDER to .'skin-game' the
passengers.
The New York sun scores this point
against the great western politician:
Col. Bryan's excursions into inter
national politics shine with information,
even as his voyages in finance and polit-
ical economy. At the great Dallas Dol
lar Dinner the Colonel said that the
Beers have the sympathy of all the
American people except those who have
abandoned the doctrine that govern
ments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed. AS the Beers
are a minority bent on keeping down
the majority, Col. Bryan's application
of the consent of the governed seems a
little peculiar. But he covered SO much
ground, actual and literal, that much
must be forgiven him."
The Illinois State Federation of La.
Dor has adopted a new constitution
leaving out all reference to free silver
1t believes in progress.
In "a Child's Primer of Natural His
tory Mr.. Oliver HEREFORD plays SOM
engaging pranks. both as an artist ans
a rhymer. Opposite his description o
the whale is a picture of a heaving sea
from which a waterspout is rising. TIL
text runs thus:
The considerations artist tries
Only to draw what meets his eyes.
This is the whale; he seems to be
A spout of water in the sea.
;, Now. Huxley from one bone could max
An unknown beast; SO l take
This spout of water. and from thence
Construct a whale by Inference,
A whale, I venture to assert.
t Must be an an-i-mat-ed squirt!
. Thus, children, we the truth may sif
: BY use of log-ic's priceless gift.
: What an Inspiration these line
! should be to the popocrats! Fred Whit
and Billy Bryan, who are taking a bon
of imagination and constructing tn
: deadly octopus, the bloody imperialis
and the bloated trust, "by use of log
les priceless gift" may find a rift j
d the clouds of doubt surrounding the
camps.