Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-24

tiles are that great majority of us
made a holler' whenever things
didn't seem to be going to suit our in
fantile tastes.
Bless the babies!
They are needed in the world 8
business they are so necessary in
fact. that all the knowledge which
the world holds, all the accomplish
everything which is beautiful or mar
velous or dear, would be empty, value
less, without reason, if babies were no
more.
Bless the babies:
If the great noisy, sweltering
crowd of grown-ups worries the little
unit until it's tender nerves cannot
bear up beneath the strain-if the
concert or the play robs the tiny
child Of it's needed rest and quiet-if
the sermon is so long or so loud that
fluttering little hands and staring eyes
betoken the breaking down of the deli
cate powers of endurance, let the baby
cry!
And let the hardened big folks the
thoughtless musicians, the capering ac-
tors, exhorting preacher, cast aside ev-
cry other thought to join in comforting
the babe which is shrieking its COM
plant against the indifference Of the
world into which 1t has been thrust
thru no fault Of it's own.
whatsoever offendeth one of the
least Of these, My little Ones" said He
who spoke as man ne'er spake before,
sit were better for him that mill
stone were hanged about his neck and
he were drowned in the depths Of the
sea-
Let the babies cry-and if anybody
objects, let the drowning begin at
once!
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
[Belle PLANE Untonl
The Union is not taking sides in
the fight for and against mulct
saloons In Belle Plaine and Benton
county. being satisfied to leave the
decision to the good sense and sober
Judgment Of our citizens. There is
one phase of the situation, however,
which we believe all citizens should
bear in mind, and that is that viola
lions Of the law will not cease Of
themselves II we have mulct saloons,
but will simply tend to take a different
form. The mulct saloon will require
Just as great vigilance as the hole in
the wall, and 1t is a matter Of grave
doubt whether officials who do not
enforce the law as to one will be any
more Jealous as to the other fl
1t is a matter OF common obser-
walton that a vast majority Of saloon
men obey no law respecting their
business unless. figuratively speaking,
they are taken by the throat and
choked into submission by main
force. Moreover, they are never
satisfied with the concessions which
they already have. but are constantly
demanding more. Let the public or
the officials relax their vigilance for
a single day, and the saloon will
begin it's stealthy Entertainments on
the restrictions which the law
has thrown about their business.
Every day that officials, and the pub
lie generally, wink at these violations,
the more gross and open they will be-
come. And when the saloon is once
entrenched in power and has paralyz-
ed public dlsfavog. it will be found just
as hard to force It back under the law
as it is now to bring the blind pig and
the saloon drug store to terms. This
is not theory, 1t il the result OF actual
observation In numberless IOWA towns.
Public sentiment is the dominant
force which causes the enforcement
or non enforcement Of all laws to a