Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-21
WHAT HE WOULD DO IN CON-
GRESS

GREss.
memphis Commercial Appeal
Senator John r. Reaves, of the
Hardeman Free Press. Is in the race
for congress- and he proposes to make
1T lively for any one who may come
against him.
II have not formally announced my
self" he said the other night, because
1t Is too early to enter the fight, but l
will do so later on
What will you do for Memphis?"
"If elected, a whole lot. 1 will get
money from the government. dam up
Wolf river few miles out, have a
pleasure lake with picnic islands and
beer gardens in 1T, and fish that will
come to you when you call them. With
the water precipitated over the dam l
would turn huge turbine wheels and
generate electricity enough to light and
heat the city and run all the machinery
including the street cars and the police
factories would come and Memphis
would be the Lowell of the south.
Anything else?"
man to keep his wife with him while
ana WOulu pay Ilti Sdl-
airy than her husband receives.
But suppose there We're children?"
Leave EN- at the station house and
make Joe Fitzgerald run kindergar-
Item
How are you on the temperance
question:"
You mean the water wagon?'
Yes
I'm not on it. The riding is too
rough
You are not a prohibitionst, them
No; l favor more whisky, better
whisky and bigger barrels"
Would you Persist the transit OF
Venus?n
Il never resist lady"
1 What else would you dog"
II would give every town in the dis
! trict lunatic asylum, so they woult
not be jealous of Bolivar
What do you think of the law OF
supply and demand"
II never read it, but it ought to bf
repealed. Government should protect
the people. When a man has anythine
to sell he should get a good price for it
When he wants To buy anything n
should be able to buy it cheap. FRS
thing | do when l get to congress vii
be To pass law regulating this
Would you attack the abstract sci.
encss-th the multiplication table or the
Irules of long division?.
Il would. When it comes to favor.
ling my friends | would say twice tw,
are ten and when | came to dividing
lfhe spoils | would make the division 5,
ong that no one VINO ever voted III.
republican ticket would get anything
What do YOU think of the none.
4 devil?''
There is a GOODNESS between us. H
never liked me. i could never be o,
social terms with him. He avoids m
II and think somebody has been tellin,
aim lies on me that have prejudice,
him against me-
Are you opposed to trusts?'
The big ones, yes. The little ones
rather like. when have no chang
about me, but | can't find them
Do You believe in levees?"
ton both sides of the river. with
macadamized driveway in the middle
How are you on the question Of ex
Epansion?'
Il believe We ought 70 expand unit
Columbia skirts frou-frou agains
1.-the uttermost rim OF the world IL
: ian anti-imperial.st also You can
Hose me-
What is your theory of inebrietyo ?
Il have given the question nuc
study ard ! have come u the conelu
sion that there is a multitude Of super
Inducing causes-conspicuo atavisr
some ancestor was a booze fignte
: and t breaks out in the descendant IA
beyond the fourth generation. A de
!. Isiruction Of the equilibrium betwee
the physical and mental forces by tn
undue exercise of either Brain fag
when man thinks nc is thinking an
Igels Tired. Temperamental infirnity
where a persons feelings are set on
hair trigger and Will fly up 10 elatien q
sink 10 dependency in an instan
!, Habit: the feeling that somstiain
!, pressing is undbne. and that there
J, nothing else TO do. Structural defect /
: Character: where a lacking or eXigult
i of moral or spiritual fullness is felt 0
4 Injecting a friend and when nothing els
viii fill the vacuum adequately say
Inc physical act of inbibing. This
usually called sociability. Sometime
: lnebriation IS continued because a ser
> sitiye man fears 10 think of the 10,
things he did while out with the boy
: Sometimes he feels that he mas bee
/ good 50 long hat he ought to eelebrar
h the event. Ordinarily it is pure cusset
f ness, or the result III some mental OF
/ iliduity. the result of abnormally deye
: Eoping one faculty while dwarfing IL
= others
J Can a man become intoxicated witt
] out drinking
He can. II a constant drinker go.
+ without stimulant for a week or tv
8 the novelty OF being sober Will intox
cate him, and off he goes again
+ What is the cure?''
BE born again
: DO you look for much of scramh
In your contest?n
+ Yes; the place is worth scramblir
! for. There will be gouging and ha
pulling, but | like that
What do you think of the theory
!, Novalis that universal suicide might
!, 5ustifiable?'
! think that putehman was
blamed fool
Are you in favor of three wi
fence"
s The fence law is a local question,
9 Hancock said of the tariff | don't THU
congress should interfere in our distri
affairs