Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-15

opens the saloon again and runs it.
| till midnight, frequently. when trade
1 is good. And this condition of affairs
suggests to this travelling man wha
| kind OF q man will this boy grow into
| AT the age OF IL openly defying the
| laws of the state, this with the consent
| of his parents. 1t also raises the
question of the effect on the other
school children. And again naturally
one asks what kind of a community
Is it. that not satisfied with open de-
hance of state laws, but allows and ex-
life as law breakers.
Only a few years ago the majority
OF the progressive Iowa towns large
and small were installing electric light
| plants and in no case has the writer
| heard or known of their discontinue
ance or imperative. But Il great
change has occurred I'm favor of gas
plants. They are of many patents and
combinations. In many towns the price
per thousand feet of gas light, is away
above the cost Of electric light, but
| their patrons stay with them. Again
many blocks, hotels and public build
| ings, have so-callcd private gas plants
which give general satisfaction. Near
| ly all Of these plants use gasoline. which
of course Is obtained at the exact price
| the Standard OIL people see fit to
charge for 1t. And many have asked If
| this monopolistc price is gradually
raised, fair inference judging from
past experience, VIII not there come a
| time in the near future when such
| lighting plants will be valueless, for
certain 1t is, the people can not afford
| to pay any more than present prices.
| And some one else asks, why do not
our smaller towns, manufacture and
operate coal gas plants. In many cities
with present improved burner attach
ments a pure white light is obtained
from coal gas, and the questions asked
is why are not more coal gas plants
established?
One of the promises of free and
unmuzzled press is to stand up and
champion the cause of the weak and
downtrodden. And the time has come
for the press to go into the champion
ing business Said weak and down
trodden are the travelling public, now
oppressed by the loud talker. This In
dividual in car, depot or hotel, espec-
tally the latter place, is perfectly OBJ
livious to the rights and feelings of
others. One wishes to read, write or
talk with friend but it is impossible.
Mr.. Loud Talker has the floor. His
voice fills the hotel office. AT the
writing table, the travelling man maxi
ing out his daily report, cannot add up
column of figures twice alike. Try
ing to read and one hears this shouter's
words and gives up in despair. The
landlord can't shut him Off for he pays
two per, and this includes three meals,
a. bed, and q right to make a con-
founded nuisance Of himself by talking
SO loud an ordinary thunder shower
comes and goes unnoticed. -Four years
ago at this time, he was talking poll
tics. In fact there were two of them.
This we endured, much as one endures
other discomforts attached to a travel
ing mans life. But now no one will
talk back to him, so he falls back into
relating his wonderful personal ex-
perience. How he escaped being held
up, what he made on that real estate
deal in Highland Park; how many
thousand dollars he sold last year, and
how the Waldorf is abusing the boys.
Occasionally he does not belong to the
"profesh." but elves in Gods coun-
try" and has no use for Iowa, soil, CHI
mate or prohibition laws. Get him
started on our liquor laws and one
would find comparative quiet in an
Omaha saloon down on the levee, rath-
err than in the hotel office he occupies.
OF course there is a remedy. One
can sit out of doors, or go to the pa
latial bedroom, three stories up. but
either place is trifle chilly these DAYS.
Would an indictment as nuisance
stand Against the loud talker in ho-
tel office?
The following was handed the writer
by an old Jacksonian democrat and
is willingly given place in this coll
umn:
Il see you paper tells all about Mr.
Fairbanks trip across Iowa, but you
don't say anything of how he ran his
train thru this town, thirty miles ar
hour, and ran over Mr.. Peterson's dog
and cut his head off. You republicans
think this a good joke just because Mr.
Peterson Is a democrat, but | tell you
he would have run over baby six
months old walking the track even Il
the baby's father was republican,
and your candidate was too proud to
even look at the people of this town
was lying down on one Of the seats in
the car, and never came to the door
or bowed, or took off his hat or moth
ing. Killing democratic dogs and go
ing thru one of the best towns in
Iowa, may make votes, but it won't
get vote from me-
"OLD JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT"
-. - %e<><A-A.<