Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-03
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This Des Moines Capital in the cad
ing editorial of its TUESDAY issue calls
critical attention to an incident report
ed in the Sioux City Journal in con-
nection with the Anderson bribery
trial. The Capital aepmcating the
| tendency of some men to wordiness,
quotes from the Journal portion of
| the report of the county attorneys
| speech as follows: "Picturing vita
eloquent oratory Edwin Anderson, for
ner police captain of Sioux City, on
trial for bribery in the district court.
as the Rock of Ages. With Mayor Cald-
well clinging TO him in the stormy sea
of municipal life. County Attorney U.
G. Whitney in closing argument 10 the
jury yesterday, aroused considerable
enthusiasm"
This flight of oratory the Capital at
tributes to "superheated Imagination
and explains that:
Some men think rapidly and in en-
| deavoring to have their rate of speech
maintain an equal speed make al, sorts
of plunges into the labrynthian fields of
| imagery until at last when they have
reached their rhetorical destination
| and begin to look backward they be-
| hold Il pathway strewn with profu-
| sion of mixed metaphors. twisted
SMILES. and other mutiiated figures of
| speech. which is probably as astonish-
| ing to them as 1t was to those who
CHANGED to behold the winged wonder
as 1t passed along.
The Capitals criticism is just and
excellent, but its succeeding editorial
weakens its force. Writing of the
Carts bill to prevent the use of live
birds at shooting tournaments the
Capital throws down the damper and
works Its own Imagination on fore
ed draft until the thermostat goes out
of business. OF the bill the Capital
says:
1T is calculated to protect portion
of the animal kingdom which is en-
titled to the right 10 live. 10. build their
places OF habtation in the springtime,
to make glad the leafy month OF June
with their never-eniing song. and then
when the autumn glow is fading to bid
us farewell until the spring
time has come again. The
passage of law to pro-
,ect the lives of these faithful friends
of the meadow and OF the overhangipg
bough will be applauded practically by
the entire state
Most people will subscribe to the
Capitals opinion of the bill. but VIII
smile at its sentimental rhetoric quite
as broadly as the Capital grinned at
tina county attorney of Woodbury..
Practically the only bird used by
shooting clubs in live bird events. Is the
ordinary harnyard pigeon. to which the
Capitals imaginative stunt Is about
as applicable ms TO tame duck IN
a mud puddle. Tbs barnyard pigeon
doesn't build its nest upon the over
hanging bough" in 'leafy June but
in soap box nailed against the barn,
or on the "hay track" over the nov,
to the everlasting detriment of the hay
beneath, and when the autumn glow
Is fading" and winter winds blaw
loud wi angry sough.' instead of
winging its way toward seas where
deathless summer sits and smiles, 1t is
fighting for corn with the hens in the
hog yard. The Capital knows no more
about tame pigeons than Attorney
Ulysses Grant Whitney knows about
the Rock Of Ages. Its imagination is
superheated until 1t sees Pegasus in
shoulder-galled pillow horse.