Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-24

" sweeping down She Walis ana cells Ii
lngs. I.
Spray ceilings N~als sand iioor with
a solution of bichloride and water, one
to five hundred.
& Thoroughly whitewash all parts of
the barn With a wanh containing one-g
quarter of a pound OF carbolic acid and +
a pound and one half of lime to a gall I
Ion of water.
See that the drainage from under the T
floor is sufficient to carry away all ref
use matter This is an important fac
tor in keeping healthy, clean barn.
See that all manure Is carted away
daily. We find in some Instances great /
piles of heating manure agains; the I
outside walls and the offensive fumes ,
therefrom permeating all parts of the |
barn.
See that the watering troughs are /
cleaned two or three times a week and
only pure water given the dairy COW.
After milking each COW the milk |
should be carried to scrupulouslN (
clean milk room and there strained and 1
cooled. II should be stirred frequently
until thoroughly cooled. a pan of milk
may be placed in a refrigerator and all
lowed 10 cool without stirring and 1T is
certain to have a bad odor and taste
but with proper stirring while cooling
this Will be prevented.
Local boards of health should require
all such general preventive measures
to be carried out under their jursdic- /,
ton. They should also require the
testing of dairy herds from which milk
is sold within their jurisdiction. as WE'LL
as a sanitary condition of such dairy
premises and utensils.
Snail we not one and ALL unitedly
make sanitary war upon this insidious
disease. which is the greatest menace
To human life and happiness in our fair
state, as Well as turnout the entire civ-
lized world?
The state board of health confidently
appeals TO the local health boards. to
the progressive press of the state and
10 the enlightened judgment OF our
people for prompt and efficient CO.
operation in prevention of this great
white plague.
A CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION.
INew York SUM-
our Very Intelligent contemporary,
the Times of Richmond, loses the bal
ance of its reason when it says heated
~:
lit would be heaping infamy upon in
fanny for the North to cut down the
representation In those southern states
which have shaken off the incubus of
negro sutfruge
So far from bAing infamous" the re-
duction is made an Imperative obliga
lion BY the constitution IT the United
States in these words:
Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several states according 10
their respective numbers, counting the
Whole number of persons in each state,
Excluding Indians not taxed. But when
1.-THE right 10 Vote at any election for the
|cnoice9 of electors for president and
vice president of the United States,
Representatives in congress, the execu-
tive and judicial officers Of the state,
lar tbs members of the legislature there
lcf, is denied To any OF the male mems
hers of such STATE. being of u years of
age and citizens of the United States,
Ter III any Nay abridged, cxceps for
participation in rebellion or other
icrime. the basis of representation there
lin shall be reduced in the proportion
Which the number of such male citi-
Zens shall bear TO the whole number
lpf male citizens 81 years of age in such
State. "
The reduction 81 the representation
Eaenouhcsd as 'infanleusa by the Rich
4mund paper, besides being u plain con-
fstitntipnal obligation, is essential to
}justleesand the preservation OF our po-
iliticai equilibrium. j the disfranchise-5
lment OF @one class Of citizens III one
body Of states should not be followed
10y the enforcement of this constitu-
3tional provision, the disfranchisement
4ot aily other cas- and classes in any
aotiier states Mould be encouraged until
8eur system Vi popular representative
government would be reduced To a mere
fiction
Ii the constitution is disobeyed by
i tbs refusal Of eongress TO make the
commanded reduction, injustice Is done
81. ny state Whore there is no such
sssaisfranchisei for the relative
s light pf t,ie remaining votes is I'M
creased by the disfranchisemen,. The
.frravisior, too, exNensiss to every state
ana not IS the south alofie. as also does
1.-THE further provision that the right "a
seta shalt not be denied or abridged or
account III ,aes. color or previous con-
s{islition Of seryitude Both apply to,he
whole union and not merely 10 Tie
southern states.
This is naw a great country, With q
great and complicated Civilizations and
4tne interests al stake In the policy 81
RE government have Increased 10 ar
enormous magnitude. Wholly apari
from any nero sectional prejudice 81
any purely partisan feeling, therefore
the great majority ~ the American
people recognize that no one part car
DC ALLOWED TO exercise an influence II
TITS government; Observation-Disclosures - il.
8 ratio Of representation as fixed by tn,
constitution without grave danger. 4
III the whole. The interests att stake ar,
100 tremendous for the tclerationof $,
s unfair 4 Discrimination. whatever Thu
tpart ~ the Union thar may profit by II
Tine southern schemes for the reduction
al the suffrage are not ieprobated be
cause they are southern or because .
Z rprthern hostility 10 the south. fl
There II none but simply because the.
are unfair in themselves in giving 7
the body of southern citizens retained
power. in the government ~ all tn
: union greater than that possessed by
Nike number in the rest of the states.
We shall not initiate the violence o
spur Richmand contemporary and ga
n tthat the attempt to gain an advantas
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