Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-02
FOR BIENNIAL ELECTIONS.

moderately truthful.
FOR BIENNIAL ELECTIONS.
| IEstherviiie vindicator1
| The Burlington Gazette is against
the biennial election amendment and
declares If the people are wise to their
own interests they will vote against it's
adoption. The Gazette says: I'm the
| first place this measure was formulate
ed at this time because 1t brings every
| election on the years that either
president or the members of congress
are elected, and they consider that 1t
| is necessary on these occasions for
them to make extraordinary eXertion,
and they prefer not to exhaust their
contributed resources upon years
which are not SO essential to them.
| If this is the only objection that can
! be found the amendment should carry
| by an almost unanimous vote. There
are altogether too many elections,
and the tendency heneeforth will be
| fewer than every two years. Business
| IS always disorganized to a certain
extent by every election. Further
than this with elections coming on as
| often as they do now there is a class
| of fellows who do but little else than
| live off candidates for office. With
fewer elections thsir occupation would
be gone and We would have cleaner
politics. BY all means let us carry
the biennial election amendment.
~
RAISING BOYS.
manson Journai.i
We heard one of our laboring men
say, who has large family OF boys
growing up, that he was going to move
out upon a farm next spring and quit
town life, for the good OF the boys.
This man has lived In town long
enough to see the folly of trying to-
raise family OF boys in town. He
knows that boy at best in town is
constantly beset by temptations owing
to idleness. 1t is Impossible to keep
boys busy in town and when they are
not at school they are on the street or
into some deyilment While the boy
may not be bad at heart he Is con-
stantly placed among boys who are bad
|. and bad example Is sometimes hard
to resist Idleness begets crime. The
boy or man who is busy all the time is
| not brooding over something evil. They
say Satan always finds something for
idle hands to do. and he DIS about right
Town is no place to raise boys unless
you have something to keep him busy
This man Dis right and SO is every other
man right who looks after his boys
and tries not to bring them UP in idle
ness. The greatest crime that pa
rent can commit is to teach his son
that he should not work, that 1t is not
manly to work or that the world owes
him living and he should get 1t with
out work. 1t Dis the men who are try
ing to make d living without work who
are the breeders of crime. The car
barn bandits of Chicago who recently
paid the penalty of their many muir
ders upon the scaffOld, We're mere boys
who had been raised on the streets of
Chicago, DIN idleness. They We're pa
irons of bad books and dime novels
They confessed this much, that the
dime novel was as much the cause or
their ruin as any other one thing. Not
only see that your boys are not idl
but see what kind of literature they
are reading. Good books never hurt
any boy but habit OF reading trashy
stuff is almost fatal to the mind for
the reason it is impossible to get them
interested in anything good and sub
stantial after the mind is once fed on
the trash of the five cent counter. The
streets of Manson are filled every even
ing with rabble of boys who are idle
and who should be at home. There are
good and bad boys all mixed together
but what the harvest will be no one
can for.ell. Keep your boys at home,
il you have nothing for them to do
find something. You look with jealous
eyes upon your daughter and try to see
that she is in good company and AT
home nights but the son is let TO
choose his own cofnapny and too often
seek his own time to come home. 1ne
crimes are committed not by girls of
the land but by the boys and 1T Is neg
lect that is often the cause OF II. This
man is doing right and so is every
other parent who tries to keep his boys
busy and knows where they are ana
what kind of company they are keep
ing.
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