Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-26
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Diffe,reut Towns
end Communities.
KILL THE Sl2ARRows.


A bill now before the Iowa legislature
provides a means whereby the small
boy with a catapult may earn candy.
fire-cracker and soda water money. 1t
authorizes county auditors to pay ]
cent for every dead sparrow presented.
In Dubuque, not many years ago. the
killing of sparrows was prohibited by
ordinance. The birds have become such
pest that what was formerly inter-
dicted is now encouraged. One of the
principal objections to the sparorws is
that they have driven away the song
birds. Birds which gladden. the heart
with their warbling and delight the eye
with the beauty of their plumage are no
longer seen here outside of cages. The
sparrows, which are clannish little
things, and SO unchiyalrous as to make
attacks in force upon single members
of other species, are as fatal to them
as cloud of grasshoppers to wheat
field.
APPROVING A PROPOSED LAW.
IIowa City Republican,
A Des Moines correspondent says of
the compulsory education bill that Mr.,
Durham completely punctured the OPP
position to the compulsory education
bill in the house when he read a letter
from Archbishop Keane in which that
prelate Endorsed the bill and suggested
some changes, which changes We're
made before the bill was put on its final
passage. Mr.. Durham had sent the
archbishop copy of the bill for his in
spection. In this connection one of the
members was recently riding on train
when he got into conversation with a
good priest from town in his district.
The priest undertook to argue against
the bill when the member took a copy
from his pocket and they went over 1t
together. They had ,sot but a few lines
when the priest said that he approved
the bill. He had been misinforrned in
regard to its nature and did not under
stand that 1t made no interference with
parochial schools.
F.AVOR1NG BLYTHE FOR CON-
GRESS.
Thornton Enterprise.1
We are decidedly in favor of Mr.. Jas
e. Blythe for the nominee on the next
republican congressional ticket. This
announcement will perhaps be a sur
prise to many of our readers, as we
have for many years been fighting
everything that Jim was for The
great reason for all this fight on our
part we must confess. was simply be-
cause we did not know Mr.. Blythe and
We're relying on the opinion of others
to great extent. Our conversion
dates back to the judicial convention
almost two years ago. After the bat
tie was over and the smoke had cleared
away, Mr.. Blythe came to us and
thanked us for the manly fight we had
waged against Clifford p. Smith, and
from that day to the present we have
been studying Mr. Blythe as man and
a politician. and as a result we are
decidedly in favor Of giving him any
thing in the way of political honor he
asks for. = With the present stand
ing our grand republican state has at
Washington, especially in the legisla-
tive halls, it is high time this dis
trict was heard from. Do you sup
pose for one moment that If Jas. E.
Blythe was there he would sit like a
lknct on log and simply draw his
salary? We guess not. He is man
who believes in giving value received
for what he gets.