Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-19
the democrats or anybody else the

4 the democrats or anybody else the
wonders of it will shine forth and fill
| the whole earth.
| 1t would be very desirable If the style
/ of composition suggested by the OF
| tumwa newspaper could be introduced
| into congress With it's introduction
| there it would be easy for congress to
Insist that the style be employed in all
/ the executive departments of the gov
eminent. 1t can readily be seen that
the style would greatly simplify the
conduct of public business and that the
reform would, work wonderful econo-
!, mics. When once thoroughly estab-
lshed it would be unnecessary for any
senator or member of the house of rep
resentatives to say a thing twice. 1t
would be unnecessary for one senator
or member of the house to say thing
that some other senator or member OF
the house had said. If any one should
do that he would make bore of him
self. for he would only be saying some
thing that everybody understood.
Executive messages and the multi
tude of executive documents are now
excessively yoluminous. Under the
re form proposed a years work could
he carried around In a senator's breast
pocket. Two or three compact vol
umes would cover the record of the
century.
The fact that the government has re-
Gently built a great printing house, and
that a suggestion has been made to
equip it with two or three hundred
linotypes by way of experiment, ought
not to stand in the way of prompt ac-
ton under the Ottumwa Courfers idea
The moment the governments printing
office ceases to be a necessity the poll
cy of resolute contraction in the output
of it should be fearlessIv inaugurated
1t is well to give the Ottumwa news
papers idea still larger application.
Let it be applied not only TO congress.
state legislatures, all public assem-
blages, including sewing machines, bur
let it be applied, broadly and sweeps
ingly, to the newspaper press of the
country. II paper manufacturers
should protest, let them. If labor
unions should cry out that bread was
Icing taken from the mouths of wom>
en- and children. let them. All these
adopt the style, and under It, with one
speaking, they would be at the end of
their string. The newspaper business
might languish, but a great impetus
would be given to the industry of ag-
riculture.
Who can begin to measure the influ-
ence of the reform upon the righteous
side of society? Campaign jokes would
have their day certain. Even the most
artful lies could not be rehashed and
recolored. 1t would be impossible to
msrepresent the. views of any man
after he had once acquired the style 1t
might be necessary to rewrite the Bible
and the constitution of the United
States. but that would not be a serious
undertaking when the new method was
fairly in hand.
A very large advantage--really quite
startling In its proportions--would be
in the elimination surely to result of
lawyers and courts. The use for these
agencies of construction would disap>
pear With such rapidity as to require
immediate provision on large scale
for INDECENT judges and members of the
bar There would be nothing for them
to judge or wrangle about. There
could be no Two constructions of any
law or contract.
A little hasty thought discloses the
fact that the style of composition pro-
posed would pretty nearly for the time
turn everything topsyturvy. But think
Of the happy men and women when
the readjustment, doing away with all
MISUNDERSTANDING all possibility of
Misrepresentation, was made One
can not think of it without thinking of
the millennium.