Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-30
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.

and Communities.
WHO GOT THE STEERS?
[Belle Plaine Union.l
I p. II. Moore, of Elberon, is wondering
what has become of two fine fat steers
which were in a herd of twenty animals
which he bought recently from Hon.
Welcome Mowry. A few days after
buying the stock he went out to take a
look at the animals TO see if they We're
allsin good shape for shipment to Chi
cago, when on counting up the bunch
ne found them two shy" of the original
number. AS the fences on the farm are
extra good ones the idea that the ami
mails strayed away is secuted and Mr..
Moore thinks he has an idea where they
went to and will follow UP the clue.
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COIN HARVEY's MONTE Me-
[Sioux City Tribune.l
A business letter from Hon. George T.
Williams, of Ida Grove, to the Tribune
tells of his visit recently to the hostelry
oe Coin Harvey, who made II half
million dollars out of the 16 to 1 enter
prise. Harvey has located six miles east
of Rogers, Ark, and is building mag
Efficient resort which he calls Monte
Ne, and in which he is said to be in
yesting $3.50, 600. He is erecting cottages.
E great hotel and making lake. There
IL room for Interpretation int the name
Harvey has bestowed upon his place,
Tut Mr.. Williams thinks 1t likely soon
TO become the Monte Carlo of America
The week was th=re, says Mr. VIII
liams. there was only one other Iowa
mans name registered, and of course
ne hailed from Sioux City His name
Is Russell and he WIS contracting for
fruit for a Sioux City Wholesale house
DISPQSING OF POOR CHILDREN,
lCouncil Bluffs Nonpareil.]
The question of the care of children
whose parents are dependent upon the
poor fund for support is causing state
wide discussion because of the attitude
taken by some of the county supcrvis-
oi's and the movement in opposition
started by the labor unions On the one
side 1t Is claimed that parents VINO are
unable to provids for themselves and
Who appeal to the county for help are
not fit to care for their children and
that the children should be lifted out
of the degraded and restricted condi-
tons and given wider opportunity and
greater advantages than their parents
can afford them There eeems much
force to this claim where a wholsN fam
ilySis sent TO the county poor house and
the children are there subjected 10 the
demoralixing influences which pslvade
many such institutions. The proposed
law which has called forth ouch bitter
opposition would give to county super
yisorS absolute control of the children
OF parents calling for hep from the
public funds. 1t would allow the super
visofs 70 place tt1ese children in or
phanages or to put them In families
willing TO adopt them The chief plea
in support of such q law Is that IL
WOULD give TO these children op5orruni-
ties which they cannot have so long as
they are kept in novels or in poor
houses, and that the authorities should
for the sake of the public interests as
we'll as for the interests of the children
remove them from the environment of
poverty and distress.
But on the other hand there IS the
sanctity of the home life and the ten
Gle rness Of the family relation which
ara to be recognized among the poor
and unfortunate as we'll as among the
ricn There Is a grave Responsibility
In breaking UP and scattering family
and In taking child from its parents
and giving 1t to another. Oftentimes
some temporary calamity or condition
makes 1T necessary to appeal 10 the
public for help and it would be a cruel
act indeed, to forever separate for in
stance, mother and her child because
a temporary iliness shaulG render that
mother incapable OF self-euppprt and
necessitate her applying to the county
for help until she could regain her
strength.
There are legal ways now by which
neglected or abused children can be
taken from their parents and given op-
portunities for care and education
Such cases are determined by the
courts which have the power TO compel
the attendance of witnesses and which
are equipped In all ways for getting at
all the facts ncedfu for reaching Just
determination. The Judges are better
able to paSe upon such questions than
are the county supervisors, and for
this, If for no other reason. the pro-
posed measure should be strongly OPP
posed. The breaking up of family rela-
tions and the separating of children
from parents SHOULD be done only after
the most careful examination OF facts
has made 1t clear that necessity COM
pels such action for the sake of saving
the children. The Importance Of such
question is so great that 1T Should be
given judicial Determination and not
left to the boards of supervisors whose
duties are largely so different from
those of the courts. Nor should the
law be so rigid and compulsory as To-
place. on poverty the penalty Of a crime.
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