Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-15
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Topics Of the Times

4 foealS an NOW uulCHly bIydIl
again fashionable.
Even Mr.. Reinhart, "the original
Hearst man." binds a wreath of super
lative adjectives upon the brow which
long ago repudiated q crown of thorns.
The Nonpariel crows over Pottawat-
tamie countys monster corn crop and
huge republican majority. Great is
Pottawattamie" it exclaims. The Non
pariel should have observed by this
time that corn and republicans and
prosperity belong together. Same way
with pecans, populism and poverty.
Catching sight of Mr.. Parker In
the trench OF defeat looking at
the shining sun and speaking words OF
hope" the Dubuque Telegraph con-
cludes, "From the party's defeat great
good must COME The Telegraph,
while slow in arriving is correct In It's
conclusion. There is a settled convic-
ton in this country that defeat OF the
democratic party is always good
thing.
LaFollette won out In Wisconsin by
small majority. AS far as the
governorship is concerned there is
nothing in the returns to brag about
Keokuk Gate City. =.
AS LaFollette's plurality was close
on the heels of that Of President Roose-
vele's, the direct inference to be drawn
from the back-handed slap above is
that the Gate City read the returns
from Wisconsin with railroad cinder
in its eye 1t is noticeable and not en-
tirely unaccountable that the corpora
ton contrNled press Is mourning al
most as much over LaFolletts as 1T
processes to rejoice over Roosevelt.
Why not be honest and say that La
Follette's election is an expression OF
popular approval Of a man untouched
by corporate influence and uncontrolled
by special interests?
A Denver paper suggests that the
poem read by Rockefeller to his Sum
day school class should have run like
this:
So long. dear class. IT'S Sad, alas
That we must part!
Sad are the parting thoughts that mass
Within my heart;
Continue up the path OF Right
To nobly toll,
It's dark rece$$e$ keep always light
With Standard Oil.
| Letters from American residents in
Japan reveal a less glorious side of the
present conflict with Russia than is
ordinarily presented at the recent con-
vention Of the Congregational Woman's
Board of Missions, held in Providence,
r. T., Reports of the work in Japan
wave a gloomly picture of life at the
present time in the fowery Kingdom.
The common soldier, 1t appears, receiv-
es practically no pay. Consequently
the family which he leaves behind is
in desperate poverty. Japanese wom-
en- have formed relief societies to care
for such cases, and are doing magni-
ficent work But is 1t not only among
The government has discharged many
of it's employees. and where salaries are
not reduced a good percentage has to
be paid back to the government. Trade
is dull, and every one is economiZing.
but no one complains.
The Dumont Times has changed
o,,,~ore ,ra tho pronriator
promises one of the best newspapers
in Butler county.
Mr.. Bryan's suggestion to make the
postmastership an elective office might
help If adopted to fill the void created
by the biennial elections law.
"rhe difference between the sexes is
discretion" said the professor.
ooh. dear, not" expostulated the wo-
man of the world; you mean indiffer-
ence.' Flown Topics.
Benton county carried proposition
for a new court house, something long
needed by one of the richest counties
in the state. The amount voted, $780,
900, errs If at all, on the side of econ
omy and is $4,000 less than the cost
of Marshall county's Justice shop
Mr.. John Morley, now in Washing
ton, is agreeably surprised at his first
experience in American politics. He
tells the New York Tribune he had ex-
pected to find all business practically
suspended for six months and the peo-
pie excited, but instead found the peo-
pie calm and business the most active
in years. AS a matter of fact, Ameri-
can presidential elections are probably
growing less and less demonstrative
every year. Only when some issue OF
vital Importance is to be settled Is
there anything of the excitement and
delirium Mr.. Morley expected to find.
There is suggestion in the way
under the leadership of it's pastor, a
converted Jew, that a Methodist church
in Wilkesbarre, Penn, is paying off it's
mortgage For a whole week the con-
gregation abstained from meat pastry,
candies fruits that were not home
grown, and all delioacies, the money
thus saved going to the church. Some
of the women did their own washing,
and gave from SO cents to 81 each to
the church as the fruits of their absti-
A. H.