Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-06
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speaks In Algona and claims ne fssa,
Burnham for supreme Bench.


Burnham for supreme Bench.
Algona, April 6.-The Upper Des
Moines says H. H. Abrams, OF the
Iowa Anti-saloon league. spoke at the
Methodist church Sunday evening.
Brother Abrams must have been the
student who wrote the Grafton on u,
God and Emerson. Like great many
other well meaning reformers, he has
come to be pretty near the whole
thing. He has scared Legislatures and
state conventions. Everybody who has
opposed his ideas is an "emlssary of
the devil But for him every official
In Mahaska county would be drunk
ard, etc. etc.
Ono Of Brother Abrams halucina-
lions ls that he beat Judge Burnham
for nomination for the supreme bench
o year ago. He says that Burlington
and the other whisky centers, rallied
Ito his support, but in vain. The fact
is that Burlington and First district
influence secured stampede to Sher-
win. and beat Judge Burnham, and for
some time Judge Hubbard and the
other Burniam men threatened to retail
late on Senator Gear. Brother Abrams
had as much to do with Judge sher-
wins nomination as the direction OF the
wind on the auditorium tower.
Another fairy tale is the alleged
|statement of member of the legisla-
sture to Brother Abrams that he did not
expect to have his speeches in the
house reported, that the legislative SEES
sions are secret affairs. Everybody
who has ever been TO Des Moines
knows that legislative sessions are
open, that both houses have special
place for newspaper reporters, and that
everything gets the widest circulation.
Moreover, the final vote on all bills Is
recorded so that the attitude of every
member is fully known. No member
who wanted to dodge his record would
think of speaking on any measure or
of being present when the final vote
was taken.
Perhaps the most guileless suggestion
however. that Brother Abrams made
was that the democrats in the leEisla-
ture are ra1lying to the cause of tenn
perance on the five-mtle-limit law. 1t
is a matter of capital gossip that Judge
Hayes OF Clinton, the notorious anti
prohibitionist, is doing everything in
his powertto get the five-mile-limit law
passed. and that he intends then to run
for congress against Joe Lane, expect
ing thu Germans OF the Second district
who have been voting the republican
ticket to be SO provoked that they will
all return to the Democratic fold
There may be some honest democratic
support for the five-miie- limit law, but
the political figurers do not credit 1t.
TIL Upper Des Moines believes with
Bro. Abrams that another anti.
saloon movement will sweep Iowa soon,
and that the saloon Will be wiped out.
provided the anti-saloon people agree
upon some rational method OF dispens-
ing alcohol in itS various forms. This
paper is not even opposed to the five
mile-limit law for Iowa City. altho
the law IS a piddling measure proposed
by men whose primary motive is TO dis
credit the town and state university.
There is not a state university in the
west located in as orderly and as moral
a town as Iowa City, while in Brother
Abrams own city OF Des Moines more
crime and !awlessness and vice occurs
within five miles of Drake university
in a week than has occurred in Iowa
City in twenty years. Why Is not so
puissant a reformer as Brother Abrams
solicitous about the young men who are
attending colleges in Des Moines?
Why is he out over the state trying to
drive students from Iowa City to Mln4I
neapolis, Madison, Lincoln, Champaign.
Chicago or Ann Arbor When in So far
as opportunities for vice are concerned
IoWa City is by far the cleanest city OF
1.-The lot? Iowa people do not even
dream in these days Of the free and
public use and sale of liquor that pre-.
walls in Ann Arbor, a city not much
larger than Iowa City.
Brother Abrams called all who OPP
pose his fye-mile- limit law "eInissaries
of the devil When will 1t be possible
for reformers to properly estimate the
value of their own services, and assume
at least an outward show OF nlodesty?
What Is there about a movement for
better conditions that springs the aver
age promoter of 1t so that it becomes a
question in his mind whether he and
the Almighty have not changed places2
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