Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-30

there are now |feCOnclleQ ana are JONI
ing In giving him welcome. They see
no politics in his visit at this time, but
IL it had been a few months earlier
a most grierious crime against the peo-
pie of the country would have been
committed. Our sympathfes are with
the democratic statesmen of the Sixth
district who see nothing but deep and
damnable plots behind every patriotic
move made by the republicans during
a congressional campaign.
THE SCHOOLS NOW AND THEN.
INT. Ayr Record.l
We are firm believers in education
al evolution. There may be inciden-
tai periods when such is not the case,
but that is all. Some say that spelling
is not taught as we'll and successfully
as formerly. We cannot agree with
such a statement. Such persons are
too much welded to he past. The
writer taught in the schools of Indi-
ana and kentucky in the ~ante-beilum
days. and he has this to say. on COM
parison, that the teaching OF
the schools of today Is
is most infinitely better than in those
days. He has not taught in recent
years. but he has visited schools n
witnessed their exercises, and so AR as
he has been able to observe he has
this to say that the former days Were
nothing like as good as those in which
we now live. The spelling today is
better everywhere and better taught.
Once the scholars stood up in a row
and spelled each other down, and they
~. .t --a 49, yskt1- n,~11l;nr HNN1r arI
most of the little school dictionary cor
rectly, but set them down to write n
compose and one-tenth of the words
would be m~isspelled n the language
badly expressed. But nowadays they
spell all the different ways and as q
rule, the most of the young people are
pretty good spoilers, while a little ex-
p%erience will maxi them very good.
Any editor of large experience with
the people car test the matter by re-
ferring to his own correspondents. He
must know that the young men and
women of today are much better In
spelling and far more correct In style
and expression than those of a genera
ton ago. In fact ii you want some
crude samples of bad ~penmanship. ana
poor spelling. call up some of the "gooi
old timers. You will be astonished at
the mistakes. They are not to be
blamed for they came up to their op-
portunities, and SO did we'll. But nov
we are having better opportunities, n
so we are doing better. The same that
we have said in r~egard,to spelling may
also be said relative to mathematics
and all other school studies.
SCORES DEMOCRATIC BRIBERY
dubuque Telegraph (dem).l
Many members of the Missouri legis-
llature are involved in a bribery scandal
that shameS the state and brings up
again the old question: Does politics
make men dishonest? Several MEM
beers have been indicted already and
there is promise that more will be
indicted soon. The baking powder
trust, desiring to get helpful legisla-
Ition thru, is alleged to have distributed
Thousand dollar bills with reckless ex-
Itravagance.
Politics will not make men dishonest
but it will provide numberless tempta-
tons often, men homes in business and
in relations with fellow men, cherish
peculiar ideas regarding brides. Ere
quently they think that no harm at
ltends the acceptance of money for their
votes. They seldom give any consider
alton to the harm and are considerable
only of what there is In it for them
If a certain measure shall be defeated
or another one passed thru their
efforts, and their votes. Man is natur-
ally ambitious and we can disassociate
wealth and ambition in but few in
! 4 n Tycjro1S- man whom hrijlnG
will tempt are ambitious to get rich
IT is one of the faults of ambition that
frequently it makes men blind to app
probation OF the strict scruples OF
honor. 1t is a trick of our consciences
to reconcile a wrong course to our
Itormer opinions and make ourselves be-
lieye that what formerly we regarded
as wrong is right. In such cases we
become the victims of our own pas
lsions.
That dishonest men get into places of
trust is not always the fault of the
people. When elected they are honest
or hypocritical. If the latter, they are
soon found out; If the former. and If
strong willed and firm in moral STAN
ina, they remain honest; If weak they
succumb and after the course of time
are also found out and ~dishonored
among their fellows. The first compro-
mise with wrong is the first step
down hill and the legislator who makes
the compromise usually gets started
quickly on the incline of bad morals
and social disgrace.
Because political office offers these
and other temptations, none but
strong men, men who are thoroughly
conscientious in their honesty and who
have moral force insuring it's endur-
ance should seek election to Office.
DON'T PRINT IT"
Huntington Hawkeye.)
One of the most wearying and UNI