Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-12

| The Marengo. Republican believes
that "one reason the opposing factions
of the democracy don't call each other
more hard names than they do Is be-
cause the English vocabulary of fire
and thunder explet ives is somewhat
nmited.'
Are you jealous of your neighbours
Iprosperity?' asks the Chelsea 1nde-
! pendent. What has he done to you?
Because he pushed and pulled and
scratched and sweat ana toiled and
succeeded at last in reaching an easy
road TO life, and you rested under the
shade and failed dosss that make it
your duty to rail at him and smirch
him at every opportunity? Does it?
Say a word for him. No man is the
only pebble on the beach. Your time
will come IL you will use head and
hands Don't feel sore because some
fellow has more sense than you"
wat will Tanmany do? is ques-
ton which is being eagerly asked IN
the east. The Des Moines Capital re-
plies: '.Tammany can be depended
upon to Go the New York City treasury
to a finish as often as the opportunity
is presented
1T is the exceptional and unusual
which gets into the newspapers and is
exploited in big headlines. remarks
the Brooklyn Chronicle. I'VE have
known a man to gravely wonder why
preachers got into so many scrapes,
when his own conduct, If INDUCED IN
by a preacher would get him into
every newspaper in the state"
The Scranton Journal, while 1t IA
vors Sunday observance, suggests: II
the churches wish to set an example
for Sunday observance let them stop
transacting nearly all of their finan-
cial business on that day. 1t is now
their great day for raising money. and
many preachers will actually be
alownish in their effort TO raise the al
mighty dollar. There are some people
who candidly think that there is no
more harm in paying the hired man on
Sunday than there is in paying the
lis not lacking where preachers have
preached against the operating of
trains on Sunday and then rode on one
to their next appointment Let the
church educate by example as we'll as
precept."
The Davenport Democrat thinks
these combinations for the profit OF
the few at the expense of the many
viii never be really controlled or regu-
lated until congressional laws are
passed to meet the new conditions.
Laws musty with age and intended for
very different conditions are not ade-
quate in reaching the extortions of
some of the present day monopolies.
But care must be taken that the rem
edy is not worse than the disease
"If the press doesn't inculcate as
good doctrine as the pulpit" the Tama
Herald declares. ut is not living up to
its opportunities. A clean newspaper,
il there is a suspicion of gray matter
behind it. has an opportunity for good
superior to that OF the average preach
er limited as he is in his efforts by the
size of the average congregation. The
trouble is that too many newspapers
and some preachers make no effort to
live up to their opportunities"
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