Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-07
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For time we almost forgot that
| there was a democrat in the Iowa leg
islature but the Clinton members reso-
| luton asking in an insinuating way
What did you do with all that money
we gave you?" has reminded us.
| ST. Petersburg dispatches report
Russians as pleased at the change OF
| sentiment in the united States to-
ward the Observation-Disclosures war. lt
is said that Russian feelings were
so badly hurt that American business
! in the empire was suffering. If the
Russians can gain comfort from the
change in American sentiment they
are welcome to it. The Japs viii
probably give them little consolation
and the people of this country VIII
continue to read the war news with the
same devout wish that the little Japs
lick the stuffin' out of EN-"
What is going to be Roosevelts al
titude toward the Mormons now testi-
flying to the fatherhood of children oy
the score? There is certainly no race
suicide in Utah.
Burlington newspapers are excited
over the prospect that free lunches
must go" from the saloons. Saloon
keepers themselves admit that the
law is against us" and we might
as well submit" Such are the mu
tations of time. Succeeding genera
tons may yet see the screens taken
down, dance hall music abolished AMI
ten o'clock closing actually accom-
plished in the river towns.
1t is with the most heated indigna-
ton that the small boy reads OF
brave heroes being shot down under a
flag of truce by the bloodthirsty In
dams. The same story of renegade
accounts Of Chief Late and the Polk
county convention.
Grinder What! Asleep at yo,r
desk and work so pressing?
Meekly-Excuse me sir, baby kept
me awake ali night.
Grinder-Then you should have
brought it with you to the office. =
Town and Country.
According to the Mormon tenet only
men of experience are fit to lead in
the church and experience can come
only from the possession of many
wives. Experience of similar
kind has sometimes been charged to
deacons of other churches but the re-
suit is not always accepted as claim
TO leadership.
Clergyman shall denounce this
play. 1t is shockhgly immoral!
Managerial right. Just send
around a copy of the sermon for our
advance agent, will you?-Puek.
Ten years Is the estimate by the
Isbhnlian Canal Commission of the time
necessary to complete the Panama
canal. 1t is calculated that an average
SAAAP !" 80 ~ qoAAS ~ Give IlooiS u pass
thru the canal from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. 1t takes a steamer now about
two months to go around
A Sioux City man sued and re-
covered because 4 gas meter worked
overtime. Here's principle on which
We can all agree with the trades I'M
ions.
AS long as the United States observes
strictly the obliga tions of neutrality
it has assumed in the war between
Russia and Japan the question of pop
ular sympathy among our people
should not worry the press of either
OF the belligerent countries. This re-
public is land of free thought and
everyone is at perfect liberty to wish
success to either side so long as it's
expression is followed by no overt act
of assistance
A wealthy Pennsylvania coal oper-
ator was recently arrested in Wash
ington as hobo and sentenced to the
Workhouse where he remained several
days before his relatives located him
and secured his release. Retribution
is slow sometimes, but 1t Is sure.