Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-24
LOCAL VIGILANCE NECESSARY.


iowa. as second-class mai matter.
LOCAL VIGILANCE NECESSARY.
It will be the part of wisdom for ev-
guard against smallpox. 1t would be
wise to look up and strengthen quar-
antine regulations IL what is reported
be true. Smallpox RACES all over the
state of Minnesota" This was the
statement made by j. w. Busselle, of
Fort Dodge, who has spent the summer
and fall in Minnesota with surveying
parties in the employ of the railroads
In that state, as reported by the Fort
Dodge Chronicle. Perhaps this is an
exaggerated statement, but that the
disease prevails at many points in Min
nesota and is spreading with alarming
rapidity is not questioned. When asked
as to the precautionary measures taken
by the boards of health of Minnesota
Mr.. Busselle said the boards We're com
paratively Indifferent. at least so 10 the
mind of the general public. AT Storm
Lake he said, when it was first sus-
pected that the disease existed the state
board of health was on the spot and
acted with all necessary precaution.
do not know OF single town In Mime
sofa that has been quarantined because
of the fact that smallpox existed within
its limits
over the outbreak at Storm Lake. as it
ought to be. and appeals have come to
the state board of health from various
points near Storm Lake for the thor
ough enforcement of quarantine regu-
lations. The state board can only act
within the bounds of its authority and
every community must 90 the utmost
in a local way or suffer the eonse-
quences of a possible irruption of the
eruption. In other words. every com
munity is more or less responsible in
the work of guarding its own people
from this dire disease.
MIsTAKING MONEY FOR CAPITAL.
In discussing the Cold Standard at
the annual banquet of the chamber Of
commerce in New York, ex-sl,eaker
Thomas B. Reed briefly reviewed the
lessons of the past in unsound currency
that had led up to the more complete
establishment of the gold standard. He
affirmed that the man of the newer sec
tons of the country had been facing
what our ancestors faced, an undevel-
oped country, the richness of which
they longed TO possess, and that they
made the same mistake our ancestors
made, that money was what they want
ed, and not capital, money which could
be got for nothing. instead of capital
which costs years of trust and faith :,
1t is true that. the strongest cepters
where the demand for more and
cheaper" money entrenehed Itself were
those sections of the west and south
where the people We're without AIDE
quate capital. Many Of them had
farms, mortgaged to the full extent. or
were in mercantile circles on borrowed
funds, and when the stringency OF hard
times came, and they We're unable e
borrow more or to secure more through
sales, the outcry became the Ioudest for
cheap money IN other words, what
they lacked most 10 tide them over was
capital rather than money.
There were at the head of affairs i'll
the strongholds Of money eenters a
sufficient number of greyheads who had
+ gone through the trying period Of 1857
when man might have a pocket ful
of paper money one day only to find il
worthless the next, and the civil wal
epoch, when gold was out o. sight in ii.
altitude over paper currency. ther'
We're, we say, enough of these men O
common sense and to utter the warn
ings of prudence against any deprecia
ton of our money There were thos,
who knew that IT was just as impossible
. SOU a4iNe SIti4lieii
side by side as to maintain two var,
sticks Of different lengths in the mer
camille world. To the wisdom Of thes
cool and experienced heads the natiol
is indebted for its complete escape from
the ruin Of another cheap money period
Their wisdom has been vinaieated tim
and again within the past few years.
HEBRON HURT JONES IN ONO.
1t turns out that Prof. Herron's vii
defamation against imperialism i
Ohio. while speaking for Mayor Jones
damaged the golden rule candidat
for the governorship. This is the test
mony of the leader, ". g. Client, cdito
of Mayor Jones campaign organ an
real manager of the recent non part
san campaign. eihent is out in a signe
statement repudiatins Jones' Views 0
imperialism and the Philippine war an
declaring for President Mckinley. /
summarizing the vote he shows the