Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Judge Hazen of the Kansas district
court has just decided "a that the b.
bic can be read in the public schools of
that state. and (2) that Sunday thea
tiers can be run In Topeka. 1t is dif1-
cult to see just where either side OF
either the Bible or the Sunday contro-
versy is going to be satisfied with these
decisions.
Paternal government has reached an
almost unprecedented pitch in a Mexi-
can city, in which h mayor has sent
out orders that every house in the town
must BIZ repainted within a month. Ev-
identity the local autocrat desires that
the place shall have a gay and dainty
look which will please visitors n at
tract settlers possessed of capital and
enterprise. 1t can not be that the Wor-
thy magistrate is a SUBSCRIPTIONS part
ner in a paint shop!
An appreciative understanding OF
Senator Delivers recent speech p
peared in the New York Evening Post,
as follows: 1.-THE debate in the senate
on the question of putting coal on the
free list of the tariff brought into sharp
collision Senators Dolliver, of Iowa, and
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, both republi-
cans. Mr.. Dolliver represents the Iowa
idea" of tariff legislation-that when a
given rate of duty is so high as to favor
monopoly 1t should be reduced, and
when 1t is no longer needed 1t should be
repealed. The Iowa idea contains an
other p%ostulate even more important in
a self governing republuic-that it is
the privilege Of every man in public or
private life to exercise his own judg-
ment, to express his w opinion on the
question whether the tariff tends to
produce monopoly or to Cypress the
consumer or not. Mr.. Aldrich stands for
the opposing doctrine-that anybody
who objects to any particular item in
the tariff is opposed to the doctrine Of
protection. Not even the president of
the United States is privileged to do SO.
If the Aldrich idea is to prevail
that nobody can lisp against the sacred
tariff until the chairman of the senate
committee on finance gives the word
the party is ready for an explosion.
To know that the people of Nebraska
are having a struggle with the railroads
over the taxation matter very similar
to the one recently waged in Iowa, we
have but to e an occasional para
graph in the Omaha Bee. On Monday
the editor observed: why can't the
legislature provide a suitable mansion
for John N. Baldwin at the state capt.
tai where he can dispense the lavish
railroad hospitality and IN a legisla-
tive kindergarten for the edification
and instruction of juvenile lawmakers?
A new variety of wheat called corn
wheat is raised in Idaho and state of
Washington. The kernel is twice the
size of a grain of wheat and cattle
thrive upon it. AS corn-wheat -four
ishes beyond the corn belt 1t will be a
valuable help to northern farmers.
When the duke of Clarence, afterward
William ". of England, went down to
Portsmouth as lord high admiral to IN
spect the naval establishment, the first
person he met was his jolly old mess
mate and friend, Captain Jack Powers.
The prince took him by the hand and
laughingly said: "Why, Jack, my boy,
they tell me o are the greatest
blackguard in all Portsmouth" "Oh,"