Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-11
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Business men report an unusual
scarcity of silver dimes. Evidently the
little ten-cent Americans are having
their innings.
Chicago reformers are organizing to
suppress unnecessary noises in that
city. This movement looks bad for Mr..
Altgeld.
Most of the Transvaal gold mines are
in the hands of English owners, but
Germany and France have large inter-
ests there also. The Beers have only
the most limited share in the property.
outlanders, and is owned and worked by
them. Last year the miners turned out
sSS, 100000, taking the lead of all the
gold-producing countries in the world.
This year if there is no war the current
rate of production promises an agge-
gate of s10O,00O0O0 If war is declared,
the first blow of the Beers threatens to
be the destruction of the costly mining
machinery and the consequent inter-
ruption of the productions, bringing
about a variety of financial and politi-
cal conditions throughout the world
which the militant Boer little dreams
of.
1t will now be in order for some
dramatist to come forward with a
Dreyfus play. but with the final chapter
written as it should be--Dreyfus freed
and vindicated. Such a drama would
meet popular approval in every coun-
try with the exception of France.
Newspaper critics should observe once
again that it was the T.-R. that first
told them of the verdict in the Dreyfus
case. To readers of this paper 1t was
all an old story by Sunday morning,
when the morning papers reached them.
All through the trial of this most inter-
esting case the T.-R. was twelve hours
ahead of its morning contemporaries
with the news of the affair and clearly
demonstrated that the news of today is
to be found in the evening paper of to-
day.
The state board of control is acting
wisely by investigating certain indus.
tries before attempting to place the in
mates of Iowa's penal institutions a
work on new lines. AS the result OF &
/ visit of the board to the Saltwater
Mimi, penitentiary the plan for the es
| adjustment of a Irvine factory will bs
abandoned. 1t has been found tina
s250,00O would be required to procure
necessary machinery, and on top of this
but a few of the convicts could be EN-.
ployed. The board may yet conclude
that saving wood and pounding stone
are about as profitable employments as
can be arranged for the prisoners, an6
these do not compete to an appreciable
extent with the honest laborer outside
| the prison walls
France may have more reasons thar
one to wish she had been fair to Drey
/ fus. There is already talk of move
ment in England and this country t,
| boycott the Paris exposition in 1906
Without the dollars of visitors from
/ these countries of commerce an
4 finance there would be big hole Ii
the exposition treasury at its close.
/ One of the best known penologists o
the country comes to the front with TIL
recommendation that refractory con
victs be spanked. The T.-R. knows o
would be benefited by good SCUM
lthrashing, and if that kind of punish
ment is good for those at large it ough
to be for states unwilling wards.
49,
j The country is safe. The Chicag
Tribune. in trying to explain why it
alleged base ball club does not wi
oftener. says that successful ball man
ayers and captains are very, yer
scarce, and that where there are 500 citi
zens of these United States capable @
occupying the presidents chair, there
only one competently equipped with tn
requirements of a manager of an up t
date ball team. While the would-b
managers on the one hand and on tn
other the various individuals, youn
and old, who hope some day t
occupy the white house will disagree
as to the correctness of this ratio, tn
people in general are willing to accel
the Tribune's estimate without ques
ton. The need of the presidential tim
Der is greater than that of the man
agerial talent for the diamond.
In England, as in every commerci,
country, the stock exchange is the we
barometer. Watch it now.
Muscatine county is the first on
whose alignment in the senatorial cor
test we will have to change from OF
estimate of Aug. S. We had given II
representative to Cummins, but wi
have to transfer it to Gear. We hay
the satisfaction, however, Of KNOWN
: that the result of Saturdays conventio
was as much of surprise to the polit
: cal managers on both sides as to I'll
: disinterested observer.
y The following comparison Of Hol
n Kong with Manila, or rather the M
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