Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-25
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
HONOR oLDsET ENGINEER.
IValley ExpreSs.l

That Polk county has as resident
the first engineer Of the first engine
ever built is likely to be brought to the
attention of the world by his being the
guest Of the state at the st. Louis ex-
position. The matter is being arranged
to make him the guest OF honor OF the
Des Moines Commercial Exchange on
Dec. 6, when Governor Cum1nins and
others will speak upon Mr.. e. Emit
whistles place in history.
Distinction belongs to this county by
the residence of Mr.. Entwhistle. who Is
the father of Mrs. Thomas O'Dea, OF
Des Moines, and Mrs. Askew, of Valley
Junction, and it staggers one to think
of the transformation since that first
engine was built by Stephenson. We
can scarcely believe that one mans life
spans the transformation.
A CONVERTED PROHIBITIONIST.
dubuque Times.l
Editor B. F. Wright, of the Charles
City Press and Floyd County Advocate,
a leader among the prohibitionists in
the amendment campaign and a convert
to democracy on the silver issue, has
returned to his first love, the republican
party In the latest issue of the Adyo-
cate he explains that the supreme ef-
fort of the democratic party Of today Is
to depose Bryan as its leader and elimi-
mate from its platform every principle
that had a promise of a hope for the
future of that organization" Under
such circumstances some men devoted
to Bryan have elected to stay within the
democratic party and oppose the reor-
ganizers. Wr Wright elects to get out
and let the reorganizers have their own
way. He assigns a better reason for
abandoning prohibition, saying: Fright
or wrong, the people of this country
have given testimony after testimony
that they would not accept prohibition
party as a means of dealing with the
question of the liquor traffic"
Bishop Potter, of New York. went
much farther in his recent charge to
the clergy and laity Of the metropoli-
tan Episcopal diocese. Said this emf
nent ecclesiastic:
can unreflecting public sentiment
has taken refuge in legislation which. If
it refused to face the issues which 1t
raised, brushed them aside with sweep
ing enactments that at one blow pro-
posed to destroy traffic which it could
not control. Nothing could have demon
strated more clearly the utter failure of
that attempt than the hysterical and
vituperative denunciations with which
the failure Of that attempt has been
met. 1t has produced Journalists, but it
has not been fruitful in virtue. 1t is not
necessary at this late day to produce
the evidence for this, for at last the
facts have become SO notorious that
honest men have ceased to challenge
them. Our prohibitory laws, whether
we put them in operation for one day
only or on all days, are as stupid as
they are Intellectual. You will gather
from all this how superficial, how ut
terly inhuman, inconsiderate and un-
reasonable I regard a great deal of that
doubtless often we'll intentioned zeal
which seeks to make men and women
yirtuous and temperate by a law of in
discriminate repression. do! dol"
It is indeed the fact that experience
has proven the want of virtue in legal
prohibition as a method of REFRESHING
the LIQUOR traffic in localities in which
public sentiment is opposed to such
method of repression. Vermont after an
eynerience of fifty years has rejected it
and her legislature, fully realizing the
evils of the traffic, and sincerely desir-
ing to reduce it to the minimum, is now
con corning itself with alternative meth
DDS of accomplishing this result. That
legislature should accept the historical
evidence that the destructive power OF
taxation Is superior to that of prohibi-
ton. The latter can not succeed where
taxation would fail and taxation has
succeeded measurably where prohibit
ton has failed utterly.
Nelson, B. C.-Henry Rose was
hanged for the murder of Charles Cole