Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-20
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Clear Lake Mirror notices that
along with a heavy court docket in
Cerro Gordo county there are several
foreclosure cases on the docket which
is something it doesn't like to see.
Partial failure of crops for two years,
the Mirror believes, is accountable for
this and says, IF there is lesson in
that it is that in times Of prosperity,
we should look ahead for the rainy
day. Only a short time ago, with good
crops, good prices, plenty of money,
and evrything on the boom, people did
not hesitate to take up the burden of
debt A man felt comparatively easy
with mortgage of $50 an acre, but he
is learning today that there is such d
thing SIS carrying too large a load. The
man in debt must not get too gay.
He must not figure on things coming
his way year after year. E[e should
be conservative and economical and
keep wary eye on the future
"The republican convention yester-
day showed more faces of the old wheel
horses of the party than any meeting
for some time. 1t is a good sign" OBJ
serves the Laurens Sun.
'Really doesn't it seem as though
you were out of place, Mister Man,
when you buy a few goods on time
from the home merchant and drive
down to the depot and load up few
boxes of mail order goods that you
have paid hard cash for before you
had a chance to look at the goods?
asks the Allison Tribune. eff a man
feels guilty we think there is some hope
for him, but if he honestly believes
he has done the right thing, he's a sure
gones."
The Hampton Chronicle says:
"Uncle San made everybody happy with
his land lotteries this summer. A few
because they were lucky; the major
ity because they were unlucky in the
drawing
:tGet ready to holler," warns the
Parbersburg Eclipse. 1.-THE corn crop
is about safe
Eyes, sir!" advises the Chelsea In
dependent. MARK an x at the head
of the republican ticket this fall and
your voting is done-and done right.
No one wants change"
While it is convinced that biennial
elections would put the politicians,
bosses. manipulators and grafters out
of business every other year." the Iowa
Falls Citizen recognizes that leach BIZ
ennial election would be in conjunction
with the presidential and congression-
al campaigns, and the grafters and
partisans could crack the party whip
and carry thru some of their cussed-
ness under the party cloak. 1t would
be necessary to whip these fellows in
the primary elections and party papers
would sometimes be compelled to take
sides between party and candidates"
The Cedar Rapids Republican con-
cludes: so far as the democratic
party is concerned, the present cam
paign is the most spiritless in forty
years"
Sam Sloane, in the Charles City In
telligencer, says of the soldiers pref
mand it, and its passage has put them
III rather pho llSHt. All Will "HoH
the writer has talked relative to the
law, have been of the opinion that it
was unconstitutional, and would be so
declared as soon as it could be brought
before the proper tribunal
The Sioux City Journal notes one
advantage Of the democratic candidate
for president over the So shoe man to
whom he bears such striking resem-
blanes. The So shoe man has to pay