Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-17

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is opposed to the presidents suggestion
to enlarge the powers of the interstate
commerce commission. Strange, isn't
it?
Fourteen years ago.. the people Of
Norfolk gave $150,000 in cash and 24O
acres of ground to a beet sugar factory.
The farmers would not raise the beets
so the company has been compelled to
move to Colorado, and the buildings
and ground revert to the city. If far
mers would raise the garden truck and
milk the COWS in these corn and hog
growing states, sugar factories, can
ming factories, condensed milk factor
les, pickle works, and creameries
would add prosperity to every town.
We must wait until land goes to 5000
per acre.
The people of Orange City, N. j., are
said to be greatly incensed at the ac-
ton Of their town council In granting
a perpetual franchise to a public serv-
ice corporation. Is there any wonder?
The longer the Smoot case runs the
more entertaining it becomes. The
latest bit of evidence reveals a state
Of affairs, however, that will probably
only amuse those who have a penchant
for the gruesome. The Mormons, 1t
appears, do not consider that a little
thing like the death of n Of the par
49, Lz.Jl - ,1lo1,al RI Cron tho
bonds of matrimony. Once a husband,
always a husband, is the Mormon doc
trine-unless the church says other
wise. Or in other words they believe
that the dictum Of the church carries
more weight than the hand of death.
Thus if a wife dies the mother-ih-law
problem is O settled for her husband;
she is still his wife, dead or alive, until
the church grants a divorce.
If Mr.. Carnegie really wishes to
grow poor, Mrs. Chadwick has GER
tainly done her part to please him. All
he needs to do is to own up to the
notes she has scattered around among
the simple folk who run banks in Ohio.
The Dude-I should think you would
get tired Of cumming your living?
The Hobo-Oh, 1 don't know; it's
about the same as cumming on yer
father.
One of the most important things in
Roosevelt's plan for the coming four
years is the work which he has Gu out
for George r. .Cortelyou, as head of
the nations postal service. The former
secretary to presidents is to undertake
the herculean task of a complete re-
organization of the postal department.
The magnitude of the undertaking may
be partially realized when it is recalled
that the annual expenditures of the
department last year were $152,362,-
1850. This mammoth organization
is running largely on a system which
was devised for it when it was a very
small affair. During the past seventy
five years many of the methods have
been outgrown, and are Intellectual
or expensive. Mr.. Cortelyou proposes
to put the postal service on a business
basis. From top to bottom it will be
overhauled and r~eorganized.
The Kansas legislature has a SER
ious problem to solve. In its effort to
give a minority representation on ev-
cry committee it has been discovered
that there is only one lone democrat in
houses.
Who spoke about a receiver for the
telephone trust? Haven't they got
plenty in the business now?
Here's the limit Of ridiculous fanat-
icism as to tainted money. The trus-
tees of Lawrence University, at Apple
ton, Wis, have declined a gift Of $780,
900 left in the will Of Willis w Cooper,
who lost his life in the Iriquois fire.
Cooper, by entering a theater. had vio-
lated the rules of the Methodist church.
The money that could have educated
ten good Methodists every year for all
time to come, thus goes to h dead
mans daughter.
A Miss Bell, of Cedar Rapids, has
married a Mr.. Dingman. The wedding
should have been e%uphonious; a SOFT
of ding-dong-bell affair.
Along the international boundary OF
the Canadian northwest, twenty years
ago. was an acreage Of 100000 under
crop, yielding 100000 bushels of
wheat. Now the acreage is over 4,00o,-
900 and the annual yields 1000 900
bushels. while population, acreage and
output are augmented at a rate no
other country can approach.
English grain dealers say there is
no possibility Of the United States ever
doing an export trade in wheat with
them again. They are getting all the
wheat they want from Russia, the
River Plate (Argentina), and india"
said c. Furnas Fately, who has return
from a two months business and
pleasure trip in Europe. They are
now being simply overwhelmed with
wheat from other countries, Russia and
principally. The Russian
wheat is excellent, generally softer than
ours and not as we'll liked. Neverthe-
less, the millers are doing a magnificent