Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
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look like base on balls.
Since the Japs have decided to use
Kin Chou and Dalny for the first ane
second bases the Russians are due to
strike out of Port Arthur.
In 1880 there We're 102.421 Irish
| English Scotch. Welsh and Germans
! in the anthracite region of Penn
sylvania as against 1925 Poles. Ter
years later there were 1885 of the
/ former. against 43,00T Poles, Austrians
/ Russians, Huns and Italians. In 1900
the British, Irish and Germans had
fallen to 1OO2ea. while the "Slavs
had increased TO S9,32S. At present
the Slav race outnumbers the English
Irish and Germans. The latter grad
ually drift westward.
| w. Il. Yates. the Irish poet, was ask
ed the usual question as to what inn
| pressed him most in America. The
fat Irishmen 1 see here" he replied.
| I'VE have none at home
The European dominions of the car
seem to be giving that monarch no
small cause for uneasness. In Odes-
sa, it is reported, fifty lives were lost
in uprisings within a few days.
Should the war with Japan be pro-
longed, and should the soldiers of
the Little Father encounter many
serious defeats. there might be for
midable outbreaks in Finland. In Po-
land and in other parts of the vast
empire.
The G. A. r. has done Il beautiful
thing in petitioning the government
to erect statute to the memory OF
Robert f. Lee Men grow ripper and
sweetcr as they grow older.
In the opinion of the Capital there
is not the slightest doubt but that the
radical adjustment of tariff schedules
is to be marked feature Of the dis
cussion which will decide the eco
nomical and industrial battles of the
future. The republican party will con-
tinue to be champion of the tariff
principle. Whenever tariff duties are
essential to the growth or in order to
insure the existence of the industry
the republican party will favor tar
i'll in its behalf But whenever an
industry has outgrown the swaddlins
clothes OF infancy and has become so
powerful and strong as to control the
entire output OF the product which
happens to be it's particular specially,
public opinion is going to demand the
abolishing of the tariff duty. Why
Simply because it has outgrown the
need of the protection to which 1t was
justly entitled in it's youngest and
tenderer days This is protection.
This is republicansm.-Des Moines
Capital.
1t is just to state that these We're
Iafe's 1901 views and differ widely
from his 1904 faith. 1t was written
before the committee turned down the
bill for advertising"
John Sharpe Williams declares poll
tics is fun Late Young held similar
opinions, but with Blythe it's BUSH
ness.
ASK him what he thinks of the
Americans" asked the reporter to the
interpreter, who was helping him in
terview the distinguished japanese.
The interpreter asked the question
and the distinguished visitor made
u reply.
He says" the interpreter trans
lated, that the Americans are the
greatest people he has seen in his
travels. Indeed, he declares they may
well be called the Japanese OF the
West Baltimore World.
A full school house makes an empty
Jail.
A well known literary man. who has
been spending several weeks at his old
home in Vermont, tells Of CONVERSE
ton which he overheard between two
visitors on the porch Of the village
store. An acquaintance OF theirs had
lust passed in the street and the fol-
lowing comment was heard by the
visitor:
THAR goes ST Perkins"
Then mediative pause.
ISL amt the man he used to be-"
"Naw,-an' he never was."-Harper's
Weekly.
statistican figures that more steel
is now used in the manufacture of
pens than in all the sword and gun
factories in the world.
General Kuropatkin is said to feel
the need of better railroad service and
to be urging the immediate building of
a second line in the rear of his Man.
churian army. That, presumably,
means a second Manchurian line from
Hardin down. 1t is not apparent that
such a road would be of great service.
however, without q continuation OF It
clear across Siberia. These thousands
OF miles of fiimsy, single track road
from Urals to the Sungari are the
handicap from which the Russian adj
vance is suffering. A double tracking
of that road would be worth half a
million men to Russia.