Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-22

cuiarT thdl iowa nQd 1898 school
houses. Whether there ID any signifi-
canoe IN having relatively about the
same number OF banks as school
houses, and whether Iowa also heads
the list in the number OF school houses
Will be interesting for q curious In
svestigator.
The other day in one OF the evening
papers of Iowa by a typos mistake,
May corn was quoted as being worth
in Chicago 7als instead OF 371s cents.
This reversal of figures fooled none OF
the grain dealers. who are accus-
TONED to these unfortunate unavoid-
able Clerical errors" but a farmer liv-l
ing near Beaver who wanted TO see
the markets, had fit then and there
He had 5000 bushels cribbed ut home
and an advance of So cents in corn in
one day in Chicago made him keen to
sell. He was sure those ..fellers" in
Chicago had cornered corn for keeps
No explanation would satisfy him tin
the markets We're received the next
day.
Down in Madrid when the new code
decision Was known, which implied
getting up a new petition to run sa-
loon legally, many business men We're
sure the closing of the saloon there
would kill the business of the town.
One clothing dealer here was sure of
1T. But the saloon has been closed Sew
ieralaweeks, and he finds his sales larger
than ever before during the same
months of the year. Again he has be-
gun to notice that some men who
l"blowed in" from 81 to 81 a week at the
saloon are now buying more in his line.
He says these men are buying more
nsckwear than ever before. And this
clothing merchant tells these things,
owns up his theory was wrong. Now
the l4ooker-dlls has mentioned before in
this column of what u shoemaker once
told him. This shoemaker was a patron
of the saloons. believed saloons helped
the trade of town. and yet voluntarily
told the writer that when the grand
jury was in session. and the saloons
We're closed for Il week or two (this in
the good old prohibition days when
prohibition didn't prohibit in that
town. that he repaired more shoes than
at any other time. Yes sir men
brought in their wives shoes to be fixed
uniting then that some men spend more
their wives shoes when the saloons are
closed. isn't 1t a fair argument that
when the saloons are closed the whole
body of such an individual inside and
out has more spent on it, And II said
saloon patronizer spends his money at
the grocery and general stock stores,
how does 1t help the trade Of the town
TO have the saloon man pick up $50
day from the beer drinkers. Consider
ing that this article is written and
printed by one who does not believe
in the theory of prohibition in its prac-
.tical workings, 1t certainly is adisinter-
Sested. But Just the same some good
prohibition reader will not understand
why a man can be opposed to the ga 4
loon. and still not be prohibitionist.3
Cannot understand why any other plan.
for the suppression of intemperance
can possibly be right Sprinkling won't
do. Total immersion or lose your i1n-i
mortal soul!
s Public Opinion IN recent issue I'M
der the head OF Iowa Efforts For the:
Insane. said: Iowa is attempting to
substitute the Jurisdiction OF the state
for the management of county officials
in the case OF the insane. The placing
of asylums and all institutions under a
central state board will make 1t posi-
BILE to command the services of experts.
The chief opposition to the scheme in
Iowa. as elsewhere, appears to proceed
from the county officials. whose occupa-
ton will be gone under a change of
management
Now that's only one half Of the truth.
To be sure the per diem and mileage
connected with the county care OF the
insane has some attractions for some
county supervisors who make more
money during their term of office, than
from any other source. but they are the
exceptions rather than the rule. The
real reason why such opposition sex-
lists concerning county care, is the dis
graceful one OF more or less expense
to the taxpayer. We have men In Iowa
who pay INTAKES under the county care
OF insane system, say $50 a year. II II
can be shown such taxpayers that the
state can care for the county insane at
an expense to him of say, in total taxes
$1a95, he xiii favor such system. But
let it be known that to send the county
insane to state institutions and his
total taxes will be $20.O5, then he is ops
posed to state care. This will seem an
exaggerated statement to some read
ers. But let such persons talk with.
any county supervisor and the fact
comes out at once. And the supervisor
gets his ideas from the voters the tax
payers AS u community. as state.
we are hardened in the matter Of the
care OF the insane. individuals who
regularly give 500 a year to foreign
missions approve the wisdom of county
supervisors In hiring Il doctor for $40
year, medicine included. to care for
thirty -titive insane people. Public spir-1
tied citizens who give s7b for drink
ing fountain on the public square so
that horses. cattle and dogs can have
plenty Of fresh water are proud OF their
county supervisors who as proudly re-
lport that they have fed the county In
sane for four and three-tenths cents
per meal for the last quarter.
1zo 1z~e.et~ z.
Beware OF u Cough.
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