Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-01
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
end Communities.
IowA's ABLEsT SPEAKER.

[Des Moines Leader.l
In his speech at the Grant Club ban
quet Congressman Cousins sustained
and added to his reputation as an ora
tor. Other men may be better on the
stump, or in rough and tumble debate
but for occasional addresses and set
speeches Mr.. Cousins is Iowa's ablest
speaker. He is new Edward Everett,
minus Everett's artificiality.
THE FARMER is SATISFIED.
logan Observer
We notice that quite number OF the
farmers are pretty we'll posted on the
working of the law of supply and de-
mand. Henry DeCou. of Woodbine,
said to us the other day: Il have been
feeding 60-cent corn, and it takes high
priced meat to pay that rate for corn
He continued: Everybody is at work
at good wages, and they are living
WE'LL" The farmer appears to be hav-
ing his own way now, and the natural
laws had better be left alone. Potatoes
are high; is there a potato trust? Why
should not an assault be made on that
line? There has never been time
when the farmer of western Iowa was
doing as we'll as he it at present. He
was under dog" in the struggle for a
long time, and now that he is on top we
raelfer object to change to old con-
ditions. It is true that meat is high,
and so is nearly every article that en-
tiers into cost of living, but employment
is steady, constant and fairly we'll paid.
OF course. those fixed wages or incomes
have to spend more on living expenses
than they did few years ago. but the
producers are the better off for 1t.
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IOWA'S SOLDIER CONGRESSMEN
Huntington Hawkeye.]
It has been charged that Iowa has
not been as mindful of the soldiers of
the civil war as it might have been be-
cause II has never sent soldier to the
United States senate. There is nothing
in this charge, which finds it's incuba-
ton in the democratic and "indepen-
dent" press. The conditions have been
such that Iowa has had strong repre-
sentation In the senate by men IN civil
life but who nevertheless were able by
their talent and potent influence to DO
everything that any one could do for
the veterans Of the civil war. In every
other available palitical vantage Iowa
has put the soldiers at the front; in the
executive legislature and Judicial de-
partments and also to gain for them
seats in the cabinets Of various presi-
dents and appointments to federal po-
sitions at home and abroad. And al
tho many of the soldiers Of the civil
war have reached an age where public
service Is no longer attractive or avail
able to them, the majority Of the pres
ent Iowa congressman are soldiers.
And every one Of them will be renom-
mated and reelected. They are Hen
derson, Hedge, Hepburn, Hull, Lacey
ana Rumple. These soldier congress-
men have made splendid records Of
public service.
CURIOUS.
washington Press.l
The New York Sun has been taking
evidence as to whether sheep ever
drink! Strange to say. many sheperds
and farmers say they never saw them
drink! Where were their eyes? We
iv.i on an Ohio farm till 10 years of
age, and we always had sheep and we
have seen them drink time and time
again. They are very dainty about it,
however; they are not Baptists; they
hate to get their feet wet: they reap
over mud puddle like spirited
horse and dislike to muss their hooves
as locomotive engine scorns to leave
the rails and soil its running gears. But
that sheep never drink is absurd. They
do drink, but are as nice about 1t as
pretty girl or bird. Nor do they soak
and saturate themselves. Like goats,
sheep prefer the uplands. hills and
mountains, and prefer the dry spots,
and heredity may enable them to go for
days without drink, like the camel, the
DEVON grass satisfying quite well their
taste for moisture; but that they never
descend to the pool or stream and Stake
their thirst Is against the facts. An
animal that has such an avid taste for
salt as has the sheep loves water as an
antidote, and 1t is surprising that any
outdoor man could be so blind as never
to have seen sheep drink.
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TELEPHONES FOR SHENANDOAH.
A Shenandoah correspondent says:
At a special meeting of the city council
Il telephone franchise was asked for by
an independent exchange that ex-
poets to furnish better service than that
now rendered to Shenandoah and at the
same time to afford central exchange
for farmer lines that want to connect
with Shenandoah. The exchange that
will be furnished the farmers will be at
cost of service, and the local people who
are urging the deal say that 400 or 500
farmers will seek connection with the
Shenandoah exchange.
Shenandoah is the only town in this
county that has not been invaded by
the mutual lines. In Clarinda sixteen
lines are in operation and nearly 400
farmers are In direct communication
with the town. College Springs has
eight such lines, Yorktown eleven,
Bethcsd twelve or fourteen, Essex
seven, Coin nine, Northboro and all the
other towns in the county have num-
Der. It is doubtful if there is a county
in the state so we'll supplied with farm
ers telephones.
POPULISM WELL PLACED.
[Des Moines Capital.]
The bowling of the city papers about
the price Of meats does not disturb us
in the least. We are meat sellers in
this blue grass region and we would
like to see the price go higher.-Win-
terset News.
Yes, we thought as much. The fore
going paragraph is from a sheet SO
rantankerously populistic, that it fire.