Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-17
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place ID Iowa
Towns.
Public Opinion On Iowa Subjects as
Reflected In the Iowa News.
papers.
The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
Of Different Towns and Com.
munities.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.
fIowa city Republican,

There are several cases in the courts
growing out OF the Iowa law authoriz-
ing the assessing OF abutting property
for street paving. The supreme court
OF; the United States some time ago de-
glivered an opinion that such assess
ments must be apportioned according
to the benefits derived from the im-
proyement by each piece of property.
1t is not only held by good attorneys
that this decision makes the statute
unconstitutional under authority of
which practically all of Iowa's brick
paving was laid, but that the tinker
Ing of the law by the last general as
Ssembly, to make 1t conform to this
sstatute.s failed in Its purpose. For this
reason other cities IN iowa this season
have confined themselves to such paw
Ing assis requested by all the property
owners abutting the streets to- be inn
proved, and this would be good plan
for Iowa City to follow until the mat
ter has been settled. The same things
hold with macadamizing which is done
under his statute.
There is no doubt as to the justice
of compelling abutting property owners
to pay for such Improvements. particu-
tlarly in cases where such Improvements
are plainly a benefit to neighboring
property, which, under the law escapes
all expense. This becomes especially
unjust ia the many instances in which
this netghboring property will never be
called upon to pay the expense Of paw
ing the streets on which 1t abuts.
49,
ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
Hampton Recorder.l
It may be that the ERA Of good feel
ing" has arrived Our orators. both
north and south. declare that it not
only has arrived, but Is here to stay.
The northern papers talk 1t all the time,
the southern papers when no electionis
pending. j. s. Raymond, who was re-
Gently at Wilmington, N. c., sends US a
copy OF the Daily Messenger of that
city, dated Aug. 8, and il the EZRA of
good feeling towards the north is pre-
vailing down there just now, there are
no manifestations of 1t in the columns
of this paper. Its leading editorial is
one urging the democracy of North
Carolina to stand together as solidly
for Bryan ard Stevenson as they have
stood in DISTINGUISHING the negroes of
that state The chief argument against
Mckinley is that he had appointed
twenty seven negro postmasters In the
state and one negro collector of GUS
toms, and the Messenger reminds Its
readers that the new constitutional
amendment does not relieve the state
of federal office holders that only the
election of Mckinley can do that. The
paper further emphasizes the good
feeling supposed to exist down there
by referring to President Mckinley and
Governor Roosevelt in the following
choice language: Mckinley was one
of the most offensive. insistent. deter
mined enemies of the south when in the
congress, and voted or every occasion
for the Internal force bill for southern
democrats. There is nothing good in
Mckinley as a politician. He is a
fraud. He is a canting, whining hypo-
critic, with mellitluous words and an
oily tongue-reritable Oily Cannon
but is false to the constitution, to8the
white race, to his country. Roosevelt
is perhaps as mean as Mckinley. He
lately declared in a speech that demo-
Gratis were towards. This rough rider
seems to be something of a liar" How
do you northern democrats and popu-
lists like this kind of talk And do you
reflect upon the fact that II Bryan is
elected 1t Will be by the votes of just
such men as this paper speaks for and
represents?