Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-12
Public Opinion On Iowa Subjects .
Rejected In tho Iowa News.
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WILL VOTE FOR M'KINLEY.
[Shenandoa,h Sentinel.l &

SAaA OF MT. u. ~. MaEAnvllle. OF Far I,
;tasut. the present mayor OF the town..
He Is one OF the best posted men in
Earragut q man who reads much and
thinks carefully regarding every step
he takes. -Four years ago he was the
democratic committeeman for Fisher
and II bored with earnest pur-
pose for the success OF Mr.. Bryan and
the fusion ticket. a few months ago
his friends noticed that he had 5pu. on 4
Mckinley badge and was wearing II.
He made no particular display of his
change Of views. but to all who asked
him why he had changed he spoke
quite freely Of the reasons that had IN
duced him to Withdrew his support
from Mr.. Bryan.
White in Farragut last Thursday a.
reporter for the Sentinel sought an In
terview with him as to the reasons that
had induced the change and he gave
them substantially as follows:
In the first place do not think any
sIaboring man can afford to risk any-S
thing on change OF administration
when the conditions OF the country are
as they are now. In the second place
Il am an expansionist and always have
been. Ibelieve that is good old Jeffer-'
sonian democracy. Mr.. Bryan was
very anxious for war and very anxious
to get into the army and then as soon
as he got .out he began to find fault
with the results OF the war. His course
in this respect marks him as the worst
demagogue on American soil, in my es-
timation.'s
What do you observe as to the diff.
ference in labor conditions now az COM
pared with four years ago. we asked.
well. I find in my own position that
II is difficult to get men for steady en-
aployment on the railroad because every
man that wants other work can get 1t
anywhere, while four years ago II was
easy to get men. I do not know so
much about the farmers. but from OBJ
oervation should say they are 100 per
cent better of now than under the last
administration. notice great deal
OF building and improvements going on
among the farmers. And then he
pointed out several farms within sight
where various building improvements
sxere being made.
What caused you to vote for Bryan
four years ago. we inquired. The
visionary theories of Coin Harvey
seemed very beautiful, but have
found that facts are stronger than the
cries. The finances OF the country are
now on solid basis and we are not
likely to have the fluctuations we had
1nst the past. There is no question in my
mind now but that the gold basis of
our financial system is one of the old
&enets OF Jeffersonianisln democracy
and absolutely sound.
N ia
s.You may state my position for Nc
Kinley just as strong as sou like =
MODERN CONCEPT.
IWashlngton Pressl
It does no harm, IL 1t does no good.
20 take ourselves down a peg or two
once in a while We Drag on our civil
tzation, our progress. our improvements
more than enough, as if we were the
whole thing.
But Ne, are not. AS smart men lived
10000 years ago as live now.
Not in time is the race progress
sive.''''
We acknowledge the past every day
4 as the fountain head OF literature, art,
religion. and re are compelled in can
dor TO do that. Why should we have TO
do that II the present Is superior to
antiquity?
Our religion is at least 1000 years
old. and no where in practice has IT
equalled the purity of its source. But
II 10 older even than that. Many OF its
institutions, rites, symbols. feasts. etc,
: were taken from the pagans. modified,
adapted and adopted.
What do our universities largely
teach but languages long dead. In
which are beautifully entombed q, liter
ature never excelled? They teach
Latin, Hebrew. Sanscrit. Greek. etc,
Why? Because they are verbal tombs
as beautiful as the Tai Mahal. Do not
the orations Of Demosthenes. Pericles,
Cicero dominate us yet2 And the pO-
etry Of Virgil and Horace and the
Greek dramas. both tragedies and COM
edies? And do not the ancient histories
Still exact tribute from us? Our writ
ers in prose and verse have not climbed
higher, have they? Time is no element
in the perfection OF art.
Take sculpture and painting. Our
artists cannot hold candle to the old
scuiptors and painters and our modern
performance Is dwarfed and shamed by
tSAS - eabsN AtAASA
ern works seem mere copying. affecta-
ton and diiettanteism, having no ex-
cuse for being.
The University Of Pennsylvania gent
Professor HilIrecht to unenser the n
sient city OF Nippur. and the library
that he unearthed shows that Babylon
i...s- :. sI..s.,. L. 3 si..at4o.l 800 ~. ~
Think OF il, We are mushrooms. He
recovered IL 900 books that describe the
methods OF business in vogue away
back there There are deeds and mort
gages like ours: contracts, banking
transactions like ours: loans made and
secured the same safe way, and doing
It an well as we can.
For years Wendell Phlllips gave a
lecture. on the Lost Arts and inamed
instance after instapce where the pro-
cesses Of tempering steel, making. glass.
etc. are utterly lost. and We can't even
fmttate rs Isl.
What modern could have written thu
book OF Job or the Psalms or Isaiah OF
the Had and Odyssey What artist
4 surpasses Apelless or Phidias? Who was
& superior to Philip. Alexander. GaAea ar!
Who builds ~ the Egyptians and Ro.
mAns did fss 81
AGen we're living on this earth before
y me ice saSes Men have lived here mil.
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