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

"filten Tor the flln es- Seololi.Ll
Well pa, said Seraphima, I've beer
following your advice and reading the
daily papers and 1 don't know as much
as l did before. Which is the best
route for the canal, the Panama OF
the Nicaragua? l read what senators
and representatives say, and L know
both can not be true in their state
ments. How shall / form an opinion
| Well My dear child, said this scribe
the Panama route-.Excuse me-" SAID
the head of the family Mrs. b, before
your address this evening commences
allow me to remark that to have been
reading the daily papers. l notice that
the equal suffragists have again been
defeated in Iowa. / read what the
women on both sides said The SEN
ate favored it and the house killed it.
Next time l supposed the house will
favor 1T and the senate kill it. Is there
any such thing as a fearless honest
member of the legislature. Tell me
Mr. B, your honest opinion of this
measure and why all of this deceptive
work on the part of our legislature is
necessary.
Mrs. b, said this scribe, am glad
to see you waking UP as it were. Wom-
an suffrage. equal suffrage is
Say Pa don't commence on that now,
said Angelina. 1t will keep. / too
have been reading the papers. / want
to know why it is there's such a fuss
tariff reform Why is it that our
No, %l>s,
a good thing and our congressman
Hepburn opposes it. There must be
something right or wrong about It,.
Why is it that now Speaker Hender.
son favors giving Cuba 90 per cent
and two months ago was beet sugar
man. Why is it Senator Hanna favors
ship subsidy and Senator Allison is
afraid Of it. Both men are republicans,
and one knows as much as the other.
Which is right? Well my dear in re-
gard to reciprocity. the republican
party
Mary. the travelling mans wife, knew
she would be pardoned, if before the
usual lecture was delivered, she asked
what she should understand by what
she read the other day in an eastern
paper. This was it.
Regulation of the liquor traffic
on new lines is in progress in Du-
buque, Ia. The saloonkeepers' organ
ization, the knights of Fidelity" have
adopted a set of rules to govern the
trade, rules calculated to promote or
der and to work for temperance in the
consumption OF alcoholic drink. Under
the new order, saloons will close reg
ularly at midnight, and on Sundays
noon. Week days, liquor will not be
gambling devices, and wine rooms are
barred; minors. drunkards, and intox-
icated persons excluded from the sal
oons and refused the purchase OF
drinks The saloonkeepers have UNI
dertaken. further, to refuse liquor to
minors for their own use off the prem
ises, and to make no sales to per-
sons competent members of whose
families forbid the sale in writing.
Was 1t possible that in Dubuque they
have been doing all these things, that
now they are not going to do. Have
they been openly defying the laws of
Iowa? If SO how much better was the
mulct law than the prohibitions law
She too had followed Mr. BIS advice
and had been reading the papers
What explanation could be given OF
this reform in Dubuque? Well Mary
in the state of Dubuque noted Ro-
man Catholic
ALLOW me to interrupt" said Mr.
Pessimist. II notice you have got