Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17

| live among the orange blossoms thru
the winter months. The tramps make
| their annual journeys from one part of
the country to the other just as regu-
larly as do the ducks and geese that
| spend the summer in the north and the
winter in the sunny south
/ Council Bluffs is great tramp center
because of its great railroad facilities
| The fact that nearly all of the big trunk
| lines in the middle west have terminals
| in this city makes it natural that these
wanderers should congregate here, be-
cause tramps rarely get very far away
from a railroad. The many advantages
OF getting q free ride on some passing
freight train appeals very strongly to
the Weary Willies, and then they are
always ready to show their approval of
the modern methods of transit.
The Council Bluffs central police sta
ton affords good opportunity to see
the modern tramp in every form. There
is maintained at the station book in
which the dodgers are registered.
About O'Clock in the evening since the
cold weather began the dodgers. begin
streaming into the station and in very
pitiful tones ask the desk sergeant IL
they can have a place to sleep over
night. There is plenty OF room in the
police station and the transents are
registered and sent upstairs to bed. The
Officers have an opportunity to hear al
most every variety of tales and it is
surprising how cleverly some of the APP
plicants for sympathy can arrange their
arguments. They have all had hard
luck in some form or other and nearly
every one has good job" in view
Most of them are ION the way to accept
a place on the railroad.
The register at the police station dis
closes some interesting statistics of the
tramp family. When the officers regis
ter the names of the dodgers the reeipi-
ents of charity are requested to tell
their ages, nationality, the extent of
their belongings. and their last place of
residence Most OF the pedestrians
give their ages as between 90 and 35
years. Occasionally there will be one
who will give his age at So or 60, and
not infrequently there Is lad of about
16 years among the dodgers
THE LESSON FROM VENEZUELA.
[Denison Review.l
The protectorate which the United
States has established over the other
American republics is a very mild one /
indeed 1t is for their benefit alone |
and extends simply to the maintenance |
of their territorial integrity.
We do not question the wisdom of the |
policy, but we would point out that
more than once 1t has placed this coun- I
try perilously near the verge of war.
II such are the consequences arising
from the enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine, what would have been the
had we adopted the DEM
ocratic plan of giving independence to
the Philippines and at the same time
their political and terri
itorial integrity?
Shorn of the power to enforce ration
III and sound public policies in the Phil
lppines we would simply have made
the buffet between these
semi barbarous and unruly people and
the rest of the civilized world.
There would have been interminable
luarrels. amending and ever increasing
demands for indemnity, bloodshed and
confusion. This country would have
occupied the simple and unenviable POI
sition of the man who is holding the
bag. With responsibility must go au-
hority. The one is unjust and impos-
'ible without the other. 1t is unkind
o remind democracy of its abandoned
ssues, but it is well enough to remind
he people that the path of democracy
s crowded with ruins. From Jefferson
o Bryan no issue presented by the
democratic party has ever lived to bless
he country-not a single one. The
episode and it's embarass-
nents are but reminders of what con-
inued strife this country might have
'een involved had the democratic Phil
ppine policy been adopted.