Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-08
IOWA cPINIuNs and NOTES.

| The Davenport Times thinks that IF
| President Roosevelt will take but a
small part of the free advice that is be-
| irg rendered him these days he will hit
! a pace that viii make the strenuousness
4 CT hts hitherto life seem Like a game OF
| two old cat alongside Of a real up to-
date foot ball game"
| In referring to the reform efforts OF
the new mayor of Grinnell, the Dubuque
Times declares the business men of that
| place don't want carpetbas marshals,
irercenary tyrants, marshals who love
| TO crack heads and to extort confessions
| by torture. They are against intemper-
1 ance either In the use of liquor or in the
| methods employed to prevent its sale OF
consumption. The mayor has built
| fine theater in the town and his fellow
citizens approve that and The well-kept
streets and his administration generally.
everything except the blue laws. But.
| feeling there IS no danger that the Grim
inal or dissolute classes vii! get the up
per hand in Grinnell. they believe the
mayors reform program should be sus-
pended for the winter and then forgot
ten
"some farmers thought it more impor-
tant to gather 5O-cent corn than to take
time to vote.
The Davenport Democrat urges that
.as generous man Mr.. Ccmmns ought
to express his thanks to his political en-
emies.'
Discussing reciprocity in trade, the
Nevada Representative has IAN impress
sion that unreasonable expectations
oomparably the best market in the world
is that of the United States. and of late
years the boundaries, interests and
products of the United States have be-
come so vastly extended that it has be-
come questionable what there is in the
way of tariff duties that may be legiti-
mately traded off for advantages in for
eign markets.
Washington Press: Missouri has been
democratic for many years, aud has
spent forty-four millions to reduce a
state debt of twenty millions to six mill.
ions. We do not know single demo.
state that is well financed. Why should
this be so? Individual democrats are
good business men. but collective demo-
Gratis never are. 1t is queer.
AS the Sioux City Tribune looks at it.
1.-THE republicans will not make much
more gain in Iowa. There isn't much for
them to gain
In summarizing up its conclusions
about republican victories, the Council
Eluffs Nonpareil observes that, in all,
the election was a victory of principle,
and a victory of men who stand for
principle; 1t was victory of business
over politics-business assconceived and
conducted by the republican party. 1t
was a distinct and easily understood ex-
preston of the desire for permanence
rather than for a change, in endorse
ment of what is known, in preference to
what is unknown"
In discussing railway taxation the
Wright County Monitor AYERS that 1.-THE
cold facts are that railroads, like
wealthy individuals re continually on
the lookout for opportunities to evade
rightful taxation, and in most cases both
succeed in doing so. 1t is comparative-
ly an easy matter to enact law that
would be equitable to all classes and i'm
terests, but to enforce it is another
thing
The Burlington Hawkeye advocates
that "the next general assembly ought
to make provision for the adoption Of