Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-30

German. The Chinese minister acted as
interpreter. Prince Chun expressed a
hope for the return Of peaceable condi-
lions.
WHAT THEY ARE SAVING.
Yellow journalism and anarchy is
what the Brooklyn Eagle headlines as
follows:
1.-THE journalism Of anarchy shares re-
sponsibility for the attack on President
Mckinley. 1t did not mean that he
should be shot. 1t only wished to sell
more papers by commenting on and
oartooning him as "a tyrant reddening
his hands III the blood of the poor and
filing his pockets and those of others
with dollars coined out of the sweat and
tears and hunger of helpless strikers.
their wan wives and their starving chill
dren." Today the journalism or the or
atory which may have inspired Leon
sCzolgosz to his deed is the most fearful,
sympathetic and grief-strfcken Journals
ism or oratory in America. 1t editorials
ICES Interviews and moralizes on the
loyableness of the man whom 1t lately
and long and habitually portrayed as a
monster, despot and coward. 1t is
very scared, very sorry-or very polite,
or would like to seem so. Let us hope 1t
is really sorry. Then let us hope that
Its sorrow will last long enough to per-
suade 1t that the selling Of more papers
or the getting Of more votes is not the
chief end of Journalism or Of oratory,
when it leads one to defamation as a
delight, to vilificatiop as an industry,
and to printed, pictorial. or platform
blackgaurdism as trade"
on the Same subject the New York
Commercial says to what extene IL
cense of speech, an uncensored press.
and increasingly frequent and insistent
appeals to class prejudice in this coun-5
try have contributed to the creation In
recent years of such unnatural villains
as the assailant of President Mckinley
can not, of course, be definitely meas
ured. 1t is unquestionable. however,
that widespread effort to represent
men in authority as owing their posi-
lions to the use of money, as standing
only for the moneyed classes, and as
the would-be, II not the actual, op-s
pressors OF the masses, Is directly re-
sponsible for those unwholesome and
dangerous sentiments the fostering of
which induces in men and women an
uncomfortable desire to murder. Is 1t
to be wondered at, then. that this VIC
tous seed has borne fruit-shat here
and there it has ripened into a muir
derer who somehow fancies he is a.
public benefactor? Can men go on
forever preaching that our government
IS essentially bad. and painting our
government officials as oppresors, with
out a belief in their Misrepresentation
taking firm root somewhere? The
wonder is that the evil consequences of
this pernicious propaganda have not
manifested themselves more frequently
and more disastrously.
Tho antitrust law Of Nebraska,
which was supposed by its trainers to
cover the whole subject and a cure-all
for an admitted evil, has been complete
iy knocked out and according to a writer
in the Record Herald-
In a sweeping decision the federal
court has just annihilated the Nebraska
antitrust law, one of the most unjust,
Illogical and impractical attempts ever
made by q state to prohibit the forma-
ton of Industrial combines.
The Texas antitrust law. which was
supposed to reach the top-notch in legis-
lative lunacy on this question, was
really a sane and reasonable measure
compared to the absurd statue enacted
by the Nebraska legislature. This law
not only aimed to prevent industrial
combines, but also prohibited insurance
companies from forming any compact
FOR the transaction of business or from
entering into an agreement respecting
rates. However, it exempted from Its
provisions all assemblies of laboring
men and others seeking to combine for
the purpose of enforcing their demands.
Suit was brought by the state in 1897
against certain insurance companies for
q violation OF the antitrust law, and a
temporary injunction was granted the
companies restraining the state from
enforcing the law. When it reached the
federal court it did not take the judge
very long to declare the law unconstitu-
tional, not only because 1t was class Leg
is!ation, but because its anti-compact
feature involved the constitutional
rights OF the parties to make contracts.
The decision of Judge Mcpherson, of
the federal court, is regarded as final
death blow to state legislation of this
character on trusts. following as it does
several decisions of like import by state
supreme courts. The people have been
studying the trust question for them
selves since the enactment Of the Me-
Lraska law in 1897. 1t Is hardly con-
that any state legislature would
now seriously entertain such measure
for prohibiting the formation of indus
trial combines and business compacts.
PROTECTION FOR LABOR.
dubuque Tlmes.l
The legislature next session should
give serious attention to Labor Com
missioner Wennerstrum's suggestion
that the powers and duties of his Office
should be enlarged. 1t is remarked oc-
casionally that the office Is of no value