Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES 5
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Notwithstanding the seven ages OF
man, one age seems to do for the aver
age woman.
President Kruger has been extended
the freedom of Omaha and a fornla! in
vitation to visit that city by the. board
OF aldermen. They will keep ''Oom
Paul clear of the packing house dis
trict for fear of accidents.
Five plucky Minneapolis women have
settled on claims in the timbered dis
trict of northern Minnesota and sue
cessfully carried on the hard work of
telling timber, building cabins and
opening farms. The women are healthy
and strong from their hard work and
are getting financially able to support
Ia husband. There is q lesson in their
success for siclsly teachers, stenog-
raphers and the like.
A clergyman in pes Moines has made
sure of an Easter congregation by in
wiling the women to take off their hats
and pile them in the front seats, but he
doesn't seem to care whether any one
pays attention to the sermon or not.
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The democrats have one forlorn hope
left-that President Roosevelt will
blunder and thus bring disaster to him
self and party. They seem to know he
has the full confidence of the people
and that nothing can defeat him except
some huge blunder that would divide
his party and make republican success
impossible. But 1t is not probable he
win commit such serious blunder as
to cripple his party. His conduct thus
far gives no warrant for such hope. He
will continue as he has begun, strong,
vigorous, fearless, scrupulously honest
with himself and the public, and his
record as president is likely to
strengthen both himself and his party.
Since the return of the Chinese court
TO Pekin social affairs in which the
women have participated have become
quite common. However, no equal suf-
frage movement has as yet developed
Il got no use for congress-" asserted
Mr.. Lemuel Higgins, proprietor of the
Bowersville Grocery and Drygoods En-
porium. Why, here's 'Si' Simpkins an
Joe Skinner has been OWN me $40
apiece fer sugar fer six year, an they
Jest won't pay up, an now congress is
goin' ahead an maxim law to per-
tect people like that. 1 don't see why
sugar beats is entitled to any better
show than any other rescals."
General Otis announces that on re-
firing he pre- poses to rest and will not
write a book The general probably
has no desire to live long enough to see
the end of the controversies such a
book would provoke.
The postoff1ce department has issued
a bulletin asking that the name OF the
state of Iowa shall never be abbreviat-
ed in addressing letters, as 1t has so
often led to mistakes in the distribution
of mail. 1t is explained that the abb
breviation Ia" might be mistaken for
Indiana, while the abbreviation 30"
might be taken for Idaho, those abbre-
being used in those states as
much as they are in Iowa.
The Charlotte, N. c., Observer puts
the crocodile tears so freely shed by
the democratic party over the Fillpinos
in the proper receptacle. 1t says: This
talk about the consent of the governed
is, when you get to the bottom of it,
mostly rubbish. We people OF the
south, for instance, who have for years
been cheating niggers at elections and
kept it up until we concluded that it
was cheaper to disfranchise them by
legal enactment, now shed crocodile
tears on account of the woes of the
Filipinos and cry aloud that all just
government derives it's authority from
the consent of the governed. Rot. The
south 6idn't consent to the government
that 1t got for several years after the
civil war. The southern niggers are
not consenting to the government they
are getting row. We talk about con-
sent Of the governed and taxation