Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-27

essary to properly punish him. There
| is too much of this refusal to prosecute
An embezzler. whose capture has taken
the time of officers and the money OF
the state, may escape by paying back
his populations, thru the refusal of the
prosecuting witness to appear against
him. A few prosecutions for COM
pounding felony might bring about a
different state of affairs.
The New York senate has passed the
bill of Senator Mills to prevent and
punish the Dissertation of the flag of
the United States. The bill provides
that any person who shall in any way
use the flag for advertising purposes
shall be deemed guilty of INSIDE
meanor, punishable by a fine not ex-
ceeding 500 or by imprisonment for
not more than thirty days. This will
be hard upon rising young attorneys
during campaign years. 1t will also
bear hard on their Fourth of July ora.
tions.
Canada's military establishment
consisting of less than 10000 men, all
told, will be increased to 10000 of the
British idea of colonial defense pre-
walls. But the dominion as yet has
not warmed to the expensive idea.
A Kansas newspaper is gaining ai>
most as much notoriety as the Topeka
Capital attained thru Rev. Sheldon's
editorship. This paper published local
notice beginning: He was seized with
violent crampings of the bowels, ac-
companied with awful retchings," and
did not wind up with patent pain
killer advertisement.
Packers who have been accustomed
to extract the oil from their lard and
sell the refuse for the genuine article
will be brought up with round turn
under the new Minnesota law. This
law requires that bogus lard must be
labeled Lard Substitute or "Adulter-
ated Lard" with description of its
constituent elements. After while the
law and the authorities will get the
regulations governing the sale of food
down SO fine that deception of even the
most unwary will be impossible.
Those who are urging Intervention
and sympathy for the Transvaal should
remember that the United States can
not do anything to shorten the South
African war or to get better terms for
the Beers than the British government
is willing to grant. President Mckinley
in 1900 offered the good offices of the
United States toward a settlement of
the war, and they were politely and
firmly declined by the British govern
ment. No other country in the world
has done as much for the Beers as the
United States attempted at that time.
The recently invented whisky tabloid
a drink may be carried in the
vest pocket in expected to prove a boon
to fishermen and reduce materially the
size of bait boxes.
The sensational reports of strained
situation in the far east, in which Rus
STA is in danger of becoming involved
with other powers, seem to be set at
rest by the granting of three months
leave of absence to Admiral Alexis
Alexeieff, commander of the land and
sea forces in Russian East Asia. The
argument is that the would not be al
lowed to leave the front If there were
any danger Of trouble.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
There are great opportunities flowing
down our southern water powers,
which is quite true. and the same may
be asserted of nearly all the states.
Harvesting the streams for power will
undego a great development during the
present century.
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