Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-20
BuRRELL1sMs.
Washington. Ia, Press.l

was much amused by an expression
made by a democratic politician well
known all over Iowa. He has had
great prominence the last ten years. He
served term in congress, but failed to
realize his aspirations in state politics.
proper. He BryaniZed. He opposed
the cross of gold" He was sincere
humanitarian. Yet the people would
not back him or his politics. Naturally,
he became n good deal Disguised, dis
illusioned and pessimistic, and told me
he met Bryan one day and said to him:
II am done And explained thus:
Il have made sacrifices of time. con-
venience, personal comfort money. to
promote causes that l believed would
benefit humanity. But the people do
not want reforms And I have fully
made up my mind, Mr. Bryan, that If
the people do not want to be reformed.
they can go to hell"
When l doubled up and roared over
this honest confession. he saw how alb
surd and killing funny it was. and he
laughed too. This is n humorous YER
sion of Bill Vanderbilt's alleged re-
marx: The people be dashed!"
on calm reflection, the laughter all
out of me. l think myself that, if the
people are so stupid that they do not
want to be reformed, they ought to go
somewhere.
Civilization isn't what it's cracked up
to be. 1t is often more bother and
nuisance than it's worth.
Editor Heacock notes that "a woman,
who moved in from the country, say.;
she can find no place to throw her
Stops. When she puts them in the al
ley, the rear neighbors kick, and when
she throws 'em in the street, the front
neighbors kick; and If she keeps hog
to feed 'em to. they all kick
out in the country, If one is living
mile away from anybody, one may
throw Stops and all sorts of personal
and domestic refuse and bricabrac
down anywhere, and the sun and the
beautifully gllded and FURNISHED nasty
flies will take care of 1t, and see to 1t
that the remains" are not noxious.
Down east they say mosquitoes cause
blood poisoning and death by their
bites. They are supposed to feed on
poisonous matter in refuse IN the
streets. We doubt this. Those insects
are aristocratic and prefer blue blood.
Why should they guzzle swill when
they can sink lances into the cheeks of
Mrs. Astor and Harry Lohr? But ali
thu same it behooves municipalities to
clean up.
Just as soon as animals begin to
herd they corrupt each other. And
when homos mass they get nasty.
When Daniel Boone had no neighbor
nearer than 100 miles, his conditions
were sweet, sanitary and clean, the air
was pure, the spring and river waters
undefiled; no vile smells; no reek any
where. The woods were aromatic, the
trails wholesome: a bee would vote the
surroundings delicious. But think. in
contrast. of the sinking alleys, and
markets in Chicago. Fancy the drains
and unspeakable sewers. Great cities
are vast cess pools, and villages are
only smaller ones. The lndlvidua''
if quarantined, as Boone
was, by magnificent distances, may
keep himself clean and inoffensive, but
as soon as we begin to herd, we steam
up and smell. Is there anything nastler
than a great crowd in an auditorium
on a hot day or evening! RIVERS oi
c weat and oil, and volumes of poisonous
acid gas in breaths. Fan.
Nothing dirticr, unless it's a nest full
of Young wood peckers in stuffy hole
8, tree. The ventilation in one hole
is about as good as in the other.
Heacocks woman should go right
back to the country, and be happy'
throwing the Stops anywhere ana nav
ING no critics.