Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-10

this years total assessment fell on ST
big roads, that four OF these roads re
: ported no new mileage at ali, and tina
these six roads We're raised $4,034, 10
on old mileage alone. In other words
instead of computing more than hal
the tota!'raise of some five millions up
: on the new mileage. as the Republica
y does, the secretary of the executiv,
: council has recorded four-ifths of i
n on the old mileage of six roads alone
: Instead of attributng half of five mill.
ions increase 10 new mileage the coun,
ell actually assessed. in the aggregate
only S4s2,19' on new mileage. The Re-
publican figured it at s2,S1O.OO0 ana
proceeded to land its knock -out blows
with sickening regularity.
But there is more. In the two years
OF the Cummins administration rail-
road assessments have been increased
nearly ten times as much on old mile
age as the same kind of an increase of
the two-year period before him and
Ineary seventeen times as much as the
total increase on old mileage during all
the ten years from 1891 to 1901.
If the Republican had been as care
full of its information as it used to be
in the Cedar Rapids campaign its edi-
/ tor could have gone around the corner
to Judge Cooks office and learned the
truth of these figures. Perhaps the Re
publican did do this and perhaps ii
found that Postmaster Boyd dare not
iiet Judge Cooks remark pass thru the
mails. Howbeit, the Republican pro-
ceeded 10 demonstrate what a fool
man can make of himself when he gets
mad.
"A paper that is conspicuously
-worshipper," complains the Re-
publican. and that man is Mr.. Cum
minis. Fortunately Mr.. Cummins can
stand adulation or the Marshalltown
paper might grow wearlsome to him"
The Republican is to be pitied in Its
grief that the Marshalltown paper Goes
not grow wearisome to his excellency.
How the Times Republican happens
To be so blind charltabay remarks the |
Republican, passes all understanding. |
except when we take into account the |
clement of personal aduiation, which is |!
an amiable weakness in the young and |
inexperienced.''
Whether it be due to youth or mex
perience we confess that it never oc-
Cured to us to set UP a row of figures
OF our own choosing when the secretary
OF the executive council had the off,
cial figures from which to catch US
at it.
I'VE should hardly think" says the
Republican, that Mr.. Cnmmins would
advise the T.-R. to attempt to revert to
a deceased issue, especially in view OF
the fact that all those papers which
were opposed to the railroad issue two
years ago have approved. in the main,
the work of the executive council in
their last assessment"
1t sometimes happens, at least in the
INES -fNepupiICaH oliiCt, tnat PUBIC
questions are discussed without .ad-
vice" either from railroads or gov
errors. We hope that such condition
will not be wholly impossible for the
to understand
AS a matter of fact the executive
council in two years has raised the as
saSSnsnt of railro,de abor, On 49,. ,,,,
md of farms practically not at all. Local !.
assessors have increased farm valua lions
lbout IL per cent in the same time
Wore than this. the council has equal O
Zed the assessments on each road and e
made the late Judge Hubbards road L
,ay taxes according to its worth IN f
Dads. and has lowered the local asses G
ors' figures on land values in some r
ounties while 1t raised those figures in |;
theirs to make all counties equalize
With one another in accordance with
he comparative prices at which their :.
lnds sell. On the whole ii has been e
ne most DuSiheSS-ilke assessment iowa
yer had and papers like the Repub- &
can. who can't see it, should not COM a
lain about anothers adulation. 1t is p
ar better to be extreme IN ones adula-
on than to nurse the sores of defeat a.;
ntil one can see nothing but evil in ;,
lie other fellow and until one continu-
.ly makes a spectacle of himself in his =
Iut- finding.