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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
LICKING A STRAW Man.

The somewhat belligerent editor of
The Cedar Rapids Republican has won
signal victory out of the fact that the
state executive council forgot to discuss
the stocks and bonds theory Of assess
Ing railroads when 1t placed valuations
upon railroad property. And yet that
was the issue upon which the guberna-
torial canvass turned two years ago."
Rapids paper can get more FUN out of
fight with straw man of its own set
UP than most any newspaper we ever
read. It's victories in these combats
are simply overwhelming 1t is true
that two newspapers were advo-
Yates of the stocks and bonds
plan during that campaign. but with
them the propaganda stopped. Gov
ernor Cummins the candidate. was pro-
nounced in his opinion that the plan
was impracticable; the Sioux City
Journal. Des Moines Capital and
Times Republican, which were all more
or less favorable to the Cummins tick
ct and the issue. argued conclusively
at the time that the plan was impracti-
cable, and even Mr.. Hetriott, who had
stirred up the issue. did not favor 1T.
He had conceived a plan that would, as
he thought consider all The elements Of
value and arrive at n common sense
judgement by an arbitrary application
of "a per cent to a certain imaginary
capitalize tion based upon net and gross
earnings. 1t is safe to say that none of
the present members of the executive
council ever believed in the stocks and
bonds scheme for assessments when
they were candidates. and they Ger
tainly never made it an issue in their
campaigns. 1t Is strange the Cedar
Rapids paper does not know this.
The stocks and bonds plan for as
sessing railroads was dream Nothing
more impractfcabfe. We remember well
the governors question to a theorist
about what to do with roads whose
stocks were not listed on the Wall
street market and no answer was forth
coming. The T.-R. iabored assiduously
to teach the Sioux City Tribune that to
assess on the combined value of stocks
and bonds would require sliding scale
assessment to conform to every craze OF
spatsua ton that might occur in Wall
street and experience has proved the
truth OF its teaching.
Leading railway stocks today have
ehrunk in price TO about half the fig
ure they commanded year ago and
under the stocks and bonds theory the
properties should be assessed this year
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
Swimming Time.

Field and StreaIn.J
Other day we went a swimmin', men
Tom n Bill,
Down TO TIL deep hole in tn crick right
by Simkins' mill.
Gee! We had pile O. fun layin' in
tn sand
IN buryin one mother where TIL sun
was hottest and
Then we'd run, jump in again head
fomos' like frog!
ID you ever do that?
Tom says "Way to learn to swim is
not to fool eroun'
Where y'kin touch, but go right out
where y gotta swim'r dround."
[ tried it other day n sunk juss 8
quick S lead
N third time Twas goin' down Tom
got me out n said,
"F hadn been here you'd a Grounded
s what you'd done"
ID you ever do that?
Ma says just tn other day, Its COM
in dog days time,
for tn crick is all green and slime
You stay at home firm swimin' now for
the crick is all green and slime"
don't see why a Teller can't go SWIM
in while it's hot
But Ma says, if 1 do I'll git pizened
like as not.
So don't stop to asst no more but JUS
go down n go in.
d you ever do that?
Yother day Ma says t me when she
see my hair all wet.
What you been a doin' now? Swimin'
again I'll bet!"
Men gee! l ketched it! N now I dry
m hair all good
N comm home juss stop n split
UP a little wood
Out n tn shed SO Mall think I'm
sweatin' cos it's hot.
ID you ever do that?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
A VICIOUS sehrIMENT.

A growing sentiment that the true
reason of lynchings is to be found IN
the laws delay and the miscarriage Oh
Justice is fostered by figures professeo-
E correct given by CORES pondent Oh
the New York Sun, who claims
that out of total on A|V
New Jersey murderels OF young
girls by their paramours or by rapists
hut ,hrea have been executed and but
ten have suffered punishment. Ine
CORRESPONDENT quoted argues that the
practical certainty OF delay and possa-
HE escape of criminals thru the techni-
calities of legal procedure has driven
the people to take the law into their
own hands and slay without sanction OF
judge or jury.
It is true that crime too often escapes
unwhipped of justice in country
which not only endures, but makes
much of the criminal lawyer whose
business is to defend crime from It's
own consequences. 1t IS certain that
the proportion of guilty that escapes Is
up to the proverbial limlt of twelve to
one. Too many who deserve punish
ment escape it at any rate, but the I'M
nulse of a mob is never justice, but
vengeance, and vengeance is both blind
and forbidden. The law'essness of the
mob is secondary only 20 the lawiess-
ness of it's guilty victim. Its criminal
ity quite as evident as the crime 1t as
sumes to punish. A mob is always
wrong. If it does justice 1t is by acct
dent and not by reason. There is ne
more dangerous criminal than the blind,
many -headed wild beast men call
mob The correspondent referred to
criticises the sentimental violence of
the newspaper writers who are furious
IN condemning the murders by a mob"
aud quotes for their benefit the reply
urged the abolition of the death pen
atty: "Que nessieurs lie assassins
commence"
But mob murders and savagery
which the correspondent defends have
not had had the effect to abolish
rape or murder. There has been no
appreciable difference ir the number
OF these crimes. Even the argument
OF results is denied the advocate of
Iynching. They have, however. by their
frequency demoralized the American
people to the extent that many are
ready to excuse mob law and murder in
the aggregate. There is no sickly SEN
timentality in the condemnation of law
iessness There is however, a vicious
tendency in condoning lynch law or
permitting the publication.of such COR
respondenee as the Sun has given place
in its columns. There Is but one side to
any controversy of this nature and
that is the enforcement of the majesty
of the law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
Eurntq Observation-Disclosures n1, 9rdap Augus 1903

half the importance of that announced
by the Times. Mark that it was since
the Times made its announcement.
There are one or two other papers to
hear from. and as soon as they cam get
something to offer, it is likely that they
will come out with some sore of a
proposition for their readers. They
ought to do it. Anything that the
Times originates seems to be taken by
the other fellows to be a good thing.
Have you noticed it?'
The Charleston News and Courier
wants Tillman to stay at home and
keep his mouth shut. The South Caro-
lima people have the power to keep
Tillnan at home. but nothing short of
the undertaken can make him shut his
mouth and keep it so. The usefulness
of the undertaken is not appreciated as
it should be.
The chief of police at Davenport in
sists that the ladies entrance signs
over the back doors OF saloons must
come down. But everybody knew they
were not ladies before the chief found
it out.
The Creston Gazette does not regard
a man at 20 as an aged man, but
merely a middle prime in which the
enthusiasts of youth are yet present,
moderated. however, by mind matured
and ipened by the experiences OF a
correct tho by no means as yet an am
pie life How long does Paul Mclean
want to live anyway?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
The Laws Delay.
Golfers Weekly.

Even in Hamlet's time the laws de-
lay was reckoned among our woes. To-
day England Is comparatively free
from that reproach, which America
groans under. When we allow excited
thugs not only to perform the Offices
of judge and jury but to infict pun
ishments which the highest courts or
officials would be powerless to infiict,
our cheeks must flush, if we have the
shame and pride of men and citizens.
We rejoice when one governor one
sheriff, one man, anywhere, proves SUI
perior to the rabble, and thwarts their
thirst for blood. Our hearts sink hu-
inflated in each instance in which self
government means failure. The strong
est need Is for improved moral feeling,
but there is one legal improvement
which man people believe would help
ethical progress by removing constant
outrage to even Just mems instincts.
Nobody doubts that England treats
criminals with as complete fairness as
we do. If she can send convicted fell
ons promptly to the gallows, why are
American lawyers allowed to use tech
nical juggleries which delay execution
for years, and some times cause mis-
carriage in the end? Why do not bar
associations prepare changes in proceed
ure and recommend them to the legis-
latures? To this suggestion we can
think of but one answer. The British
system requires learned judges, from
the house of lords down to the lowest
court. The power of an English judge
could not safely be granted to the grade
of man who occupies the benches under
our system of election and boss dicta-
ton. Too many errors would be made
and remain uncorrected. If this be so,
one more road leads us back to that
source of rottenness, the political ma
chine. The boss or group of bosses, Sc
lects the judges; hence what ought to
be the best legal procedure is unsafe;
hence come delays which on some oc-
casions tempt even decent men to vio-
lence. In Franklin's almanac, the rider
is lost for the want of horseshoe nail.
The political Incidence of our voters, by
which the spoils and boss systems
flourish, can be seen as a cause lead
ing downward, step by step, even SO
far as frenzied orgies at the stake.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

know whether sin is necessary to vir-
tue 1t is suggested to the News that
unless it begins to feel virtuous within
q short time it should consider itself on
the wrong track and stop its sinful
practices"
The Sioux City Journal thinks the
report that Foreman Miller is an Iowa
man explains in some measure the
fact that the bookbinders' union has
about given up hope of being able to
pry Miller loose from his job"
Between the attack of a Chicago ne
gro preacher upon Booker T. Washing
ton as non-representative of mis- race
and the recent assault upon him in
Boston the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
finds some reason to believe the accu-
sation that the black mans brain isn't
big enough to grasp big things
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
Special Summer Excursion Rates -
the WeS<

The Iowa Central Railway announces
the following special summer excursion
rates, June LIST to September 30th, 1903.
points, and returns
Denver. Colorado Springs, and Pueb.
10. Colo, S23.4o; Glenwood Springs Coz
To-, $3.50; Salt Lake City. and ogdaa.
Utah, $685.: and correspenAfnsly low
rates to Deadwood, Lead City, Hot
Springs, and Custer. s. D. Many adj
vantages are offered III the way Of d.
verse routes going and retUrains. and
stopoverS. For folders. rateA ETC., call
on any Iowa Central agent or address
A. B. CUFFS. G. r. q Z. ~ 4tnnsaDe-
lie. MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

plea for the return of the days of the
all-round man. No wishing for the re-
turn of hand labor instead of the ma
chine. But it is demand that the
specialist shall do his work so we'll, so
exact and so complete that the spokes
shall fit the hub and the tire be made
to fit the wheel. To ask that the ma
chine finished product shall be the COM
p!eted product. perfect as a whole, as
the result of the special work of the
individual. The workman Of today
blames the machine for a poor job. In
other words. individual responsibility
ceased
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
Very Low Rates to California. Oregon,
Washington and Return,

Via the Chicago & Northwestern, rail-,
way Aug. I to IA. with final return un-
til Oct 10, Inclusive, on account Of the
national encampment OF the G.. A. r. at
San Francisco and. thu Trans-Missis-
sfppi Commercial Congress, Seattle.
Three trains q day fronf Chicago to- the
coast thru without charge. Dndiy- and
personally conducted tourist car excur-
sions. Special G.. A.. r. train will leave
Chicago at t0:s0 D.. M. Tuesday. Aug.
Il; DeKafb. 1906 a.. m. Wednesday,
Aug. IL: Clinton. 2:15 a. m.:Cedar Rap
ids, AIS a. m.:: Belle Piaine,. s: 10 a.. M:
Tama. .37 a. ms MarshaItown, 6:04
a M; Ames, 7:.06 a.. m.: Boone, $3.50 a.
M; arriving In Omaha at q p. ms, and
leaving Omaha at $3.50 Y. M. and rum
ming via Denver Colorado Springas
Pueblo and Salt Lake. City. or.ittner.
airy. Illustrated folder. and full particu.
lars apply to ageats Of the Chicago =
railway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
Not oxg.-wiss.

There Is an old alisgurical picture %
q CTR, scared at q. grassiaopper,. but in
the act OF heedfessly treedirg On .
snake. This Is paralielsd by the, man
who spends large SUM Of money
building a cyclone CELLAR but neEiec0
to provide hts fam4y with bottle Of
ChemhertatnA Coffc> Cholera and niar-
rhea Remedy as safeguard against
bowel complaints, whose victims out.
number those of the cyclone a hundred
to one. This remedy is everywhere
recognized as the most prompt and 70.
liable medicine in use for these 6s-
eases. For sale by all druggists
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
End Of Bitter Eiaht.

1.-TWO physicians had u long, ndistub.
harm fight with an abcess ON my right
lung" writes J.. F.. Hughes. OF DUPONT.
Ga, land gave me up. Everybody
thought my time had Come. AS last
resort tried DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. The benefit re-
cefved was striking and was ON my
feet In a few days. Now I've entirely
regafued my health" 1t conquers all
coughs, colds and throat and lung trou-
btes. Guaranteed by George F.. Powers
drug, store. Price 50'cen.s and -. Trial
bottles free.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
FETISH

Howard Burrell in Washington Pressl
The city council Of Philadelphia will
not let the old cracked Liberty Bell go
on any more junkets.
II has been carted round the coun-
try enough. IL was at Chicago
worlds fair guard stood constant
ly round it, at considerable expense,
to see that no one put 1t in his pocket
and made off with it. There was an
almost irresistible impulse in every
pumpkin and sucker who stood and
"gauped" at it with open mouth. to
seize the old junk and run. 1t was of no
earthly use as bell. 1t was cracked.
It's voice was as bad as the busted
voice of passe prima donna. 1t
couldn't toll, or chime, or ring. 1t
was fit only for the junk pile or the
melting pot in foundry. Why en-
courage the simple and silly to blind
sentiment around an inverted old
cracked kettle like that, the sole value
of which is so much per pound in thu
prosaic market?
Another ridiculous fetish is Ply
mouth Rock. 1t is cracked, like the
Philadelphia bell. The Pilgrims did
not first step on it out Of their small
boats. They landed on Cape Cod, at
what is now Provincetown. There
was no rock there-nothing but sand,
world without end sand amen. Ply
mouth was clear across the bay, 80
miles away The Pilgrims went ashore
in several places on the Cape and on
Clark island. before they reached Ply
mouth, for they were hunting the In
dams caches of corn, and found one
and swiped all its contents but paid for
the find like little men. But suppose the
men did wade ashore from their skiffs
at Plymouth each carrying a woman
in his arms, and set the feet of their
sweethearts on this particular cracked
dornick, what of it? But that is fake.
They did not do even that much. The
Boston Advertiser says this rock was
hauled there from five miles away, and
long after the landing. It also says
the Plymouthers have used up several
memorial Rocks" broken them up to
sell as souvenirs to gudgeons! and
moving in successive substitute Rocks.
That's worse than Connecticut's indus
try of selling wooden nutmegs.
History seems to be a fake from be-
ginning to end. 1t is wise to treat it all
humorously, as a possible joke. Napo-
leon said history is fable that all
have agreed upon. But lots OF 1t was
not agreed upon" b al. A fsw palm
ed 1T off on the many. like this rock.
Why have not the Yankees long
since found shoe or dropping cast by
the horse of paul Revere's Ride" and
put them in museum for simpletons
to cape at?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

Nora-You can't expect to do away
with face blenishes In a weeks tinae.
Keep on taking Rocky Mountain Tea.
You'll have lovely complexion. Nhir-
ty-fye cents. Mcbride s. Will Drug
Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
M1>rkkAz9
} OW A NEW S.
) PAPERS = = =
AS THE ISSUE IS MADE.
dubuque Telegraph-Herald.1


| Monsignor Ryan and Father Toom-
ey have voluntarily and of their own
motion entirely, made this the burden
Of their attack upon the Telegraph
Herald. That because the policy of the
| Telegraph Herald is shaped by Catho-
lies, the influence of the paper should
be wiped out, since it defends the pub
| lie school systems.
| II were were protestants they would
Ignore us. AS they say themselves,
These false principles when PROFOUND
ed. and defended by avowed but hon
est antagonists can do our people lit
tie harm. When, however. they are
taught by those who profess them
selves of our fold, and as such are
known to our people then in
deed they are far reaching in their
baneful and destructive consequences"
The false principles" are found in
our persistent and continued defense Of
the public school system. When we
say, as journalists. not as Catholics,
that the public school system is the
safeguard of our liberties, the conse-
quences are more "baneful and de-
structive" than If we said the same
thing as journalists but were protest.
ants.
The defense is not in defending the
public schools as journalists, but In
defending them as Journalists who are
Catholics. And for this offense the
clerical gentlemen would take the
bread out Of our mouths, which, OF
course, would be a very Christian-like
thing to do.
Being Catholics, we should close our
columns to the defense of the public
schools. We should bow in meek and
lowly and humble submission to the
absolutism of Monsignor Ryan and
Father Toomey. Instead of conducting
a secular newspaper we should conduct
a sectarian newspaper because we are
Catholics.
That is not our conception Of our
duty. Being Catholics, our SYM
pathies are naturally with the great
church, but we do not permit these
sympathies to influence our journals
tic judgment.
Finally, to protect itself against a
false conclusion. that lay Catholics
ma ydraw fro mthe wholly unwarranted
attacks Monsignor Ryan an Father
Toomey have made on the Telegraph
Herald. we would have it known that
the Telegra PHI Herald is not antagoniz-
ing the parochial schools and has no
desire to influence or preJudlce us
readers against them. 1t recobnlZes
that these schools are great and I'M
mensely valuable adjunct particularly
OF the German parishes, affording, as
they do, opportunities to Germans IL
educate their children in the language
of the fatherland. The parochial
schools exert a beneflcent religious in
tluence. We are not denying their viz
tues or pointing out their faults Bue
we are defending the public schools,
and resentng the imputation that they
are destructive of the fundamentals OF
true morality" That is our position In
brief. and attempts to incalculate in the
minds of lay Catholics the belief that
we are attacking an institution of the
church. is based neither in truth nor
fairness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

The Washington Qowa) Press re-
marks that fathers law make the
most trouble before the marriage, but
generally they mind their own bust
ness afterward.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

The Boone Republican is tired Of
carrying big stick and announces rs
sympathy with the voter who says it's
time to slack up on the question OF
adding to the navy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Boone Republican seasonably
observes those 'undigested securities
of Wall street have about the same
effect on the plunger as undigested GU
cunbers have on the rest of the world"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

when in doubt stand pat" advises
the Keokuk Gate City.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

To contemporary does the sharp
pen of the Cedar Rapids Gazette re-
ply: 1.-THE Boone News would like to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

Newspaper nre must be strenuous IN
Davenport when the circulation man
ayers rush to the editorial columns. The
Times is a case In point. 1t says:
Since the Times announced It's piano
contest one OF the other local papers
has hustled around and made proNis-
ion for dininutive competition of just
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06

why you an Mary should want to mar
~ me of. I'm thinkin' Trixie would
miss her old auntie sorely." And she
drew the child close as If to ward off
with her innocent childhood some im-
pending disaster.
Mrs. Mulvihill blazed forth on the in
slant.
Eyes, an that's what the nefghbors
are all sayin'-that use you as nurse
girl for the child an dance an go to
the theater with John an my child
would suffer if 1t wasn't for you. They
talk like you was sort of Cinderella,
an it's tired I am of their long tongues.
Did ever ask you to spend money on
Trixie when you needed it for your
own clothes? Did ever ask you to
stay home with the child? It's an un-
grateful lot, that's what you are, to-
bring me in disrepute with me neigh
bors just because you're that uppish
our friends amt good enough for your
And that was how Ellen happened
to 70 to the ball Of the Shamrock asso-'
citation. She gave her sisteE-in-law
carte blanche in the matter of new
dress, and that parsonage, restored to
good humor, srcveled In the purchase
and insisting ,of 4, HaaI Hhite,sattn frpck.
But ths dry - AAe hsn Ellen cpuld'
hardly keep ,filI her work. Her.
glance would wank1sr WARD the sky
scraper where he was working. & She
felt thatthe was whistling,y his move
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-08
BANKS OF NATIONS.

Next to the United States the BIZ
metallic bank OF France Is the lead.
ing owner Of gold, which it conseryes
by the use Of coined silver at 1916 to
/, maintaining the right to pay out
either to Its customers. The Bank Of
France, at the close Of the fiscal year,
held $500, 176,87O In gold and 1924, 1898,
10 in silver. Then comes the govern
ment bank Of Russia, with 1886 $780,
600 In gold, compared with $372, 305s
900 last year, the gain being credited
to the Siberian mines, which should
be good this season for $685. 600 900.
The Bank Of England's gold stock
with a great empire to care for-is
only $1S7, 097 ,S75. while the war chest
OF Germany holds 1886, 10000, CON-
pared with $685. S5, 900 at this time
last year. The associated banks OF
New York city report $i58,453,700 in
gold in their vaults and make no re-
turn upon silver.