Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-24
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
FIREMEN's WASTED ENERGY.

F'IREMEN'S WASTED ENERGY.
Huntington Hawkeye.l
Call the fire department to clean out
your chimney! This seems homogeneous.
But many persons have done it. The
SCOT is allowed TO collect in the CHM
neys, thru neglecting to have the Chin
ney sweep come regularly to clean 1T
out. Then the inevitable happens. Day
after day the SCOT collects. The coolest
day of the month arrives. An unusual-
ly hot fire is built, and the SCOT catches
fire soon after the flames have leaped
up the chimney against the festoons of
dirt. The occupants of the house nat
urally get frightened. and send in an
alarm for the department.. The firemen
respond quickly, and after a long drive
maybe, arrive to-clean out CHM
ney!
For that is what is done often. "a
chimney fire" is in many cases an i'm
position on the fire department of this
city. The owners or occupants of the
dwelling have neglected getting a
/ sweep to clean out their chimney at
the proper time. When the chimney
catches fire and there is danger of the
call foi> help from the servants of the
public OF course they have a right to
do that. And no body of men is more
willing to do their duty than the fire.
men of Burlington. Yet it does seem
as tho by using little precaution it
would be much better to save those men
the hard work it takes to run to a fire
in zero weather all to clean out a
chimney, when this might have been
done so much more cheaply by the
sweep" Do not impose upon the fire.
men. They are willing to do their part.
Let us do our part. Besides, depend
it, we will save money by so doing The
hook and-ladder truck and the insur-
ance patrol are two different things.
Firemen are called to put out a fire. Not
to save furniture and then extinguish
the flames. Initiate Carnegie. Donate
something toward the Sweep" Save
the fireman-and your money.
GOV. CUMMINS AND COL. YOUNG
Gov. Culnmins and Col. Lafayette
Young. of thu Des Moines Capital, have
been in Washington the past week
and each has called upon President
Roosevelt to advise him of Iowa's sem
.iment concerning the tariff. The
governor is credited with the state
ment that Iowa feels on, this subject
about as the country feels, and that he
anticipates the republicans of Iowa or
OF the nation will have no difficulty in
formulating an expression of their
views that will be generally satisfac-
tory.
AS for Mr.. Youngs statements. the
Washington correspondent of the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat reports
MIR. Young says there is no demo-
cratic party in Iowa. Within the ranks
of the republican party all of the dem
ocrats of former day have gathered.
They participate in the republican
primaries. They vote the republican
ticket. Yet they are democrats, just
as Gov. Cummins was formerly a DEM
ocrat They have brought into the
party their democratic ideas and DEM
ocratic training. They are free traders
al heart.
The, cry and stir made by the demo-
Gratis who have come into the republi-
can party is mistaken for an indication
of a schism in the republican party,
and as an Indication of a change of
principles and inclinations on the part
of the party as a party in the state.
Mr.. Young believes that all the uproar
has originated among Trojan horse
democrats, and not among the leaders
and old adherents of the republican
party in the Hawkeye state"
Everybody in Iowa knows this is not
the record. The shelter to monopoly"
plank in the Iowa platform of 1901 was
approved by President Mckinley be-
fore its submission to the Cedar Rap
ids convention. and he, the president
himself expressed and equivocally en-
dorsed that plank that year. The
same is true of the newspapers gen
orally, which have since stigmatlzed 1T
as democratic doctrine. 1t was not UNI
til the authority of the plank had con-
solidated the morning newspapers of
Des Moines that Mr.. Young, who had
had a misunderstanding with Gov.
Cummins meanwhile. discovered that
this shelter to monopoly" plank was
democratic heresy that ought to be
expunged from republican literature
and that the party needed
a stalwart republican organ at Des
Moines such as the Capital. The cry
that the republican party in Iowa
Iowa had been inoculate with the virus
of free trade was then taken up by
Gov. Cunmins' opponents generally,
This tariff reform controversy. like the
railway assessment controversy in
1901, lacks sincerity. 1t involves mere
Nv a quarrel between two sets of politi-
clans for power and preferment 1t
has been shown over and over again
that the plank in which Col. Young
processes to find democratic doctrine
with the platform declara-
tons of the republicans in Connecticut,
and other states and with the utter
ances of party leaders in the past.
among them Garfield and Sherman. To
assert that the friends of that plank
are free traders at heart is simply alb
surd. AS we'll say tlrat John Sherman
was at heart free trader.
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