Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-13
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Wiil Cotton nd the confidence of the
people but he was rotten at the core
for long time" moralizes the Wash
ington Gazette. "The devil never
picks man up and dumps him over
board in one day. He gets him to go
wrong little at a time. 1t Is still true
that mans sins will eventually find
him OUT
Personal and corporal punish
ments," the Cedar Rapids Republican
believes, ARE out OF the question In
this day and age. They belong to
a darker past and to Russia, where the
knout Is still used. They are a form
Of paternalism that can not very we'll
be restored. How to reach men guilty
of the offense complained of Is hard to
say. But it can hardly be done by re-
establishing the whipping post Of the
stocks"
Undue delay by congress in re-
spending to the general demand Of the
business interests for closer public
regulation Of the railways would" in
the opinion of the Dubuque Times "un-
doubtedly increase the sentiment for
public ownership. But" the Times
goes on to say "as this is unnecessary
to the exercise of practically complete
federal authority over the railways, it
would not be undertaken even II our
civil service system were modelled
upon Europe's and not upon the spoils,
system. The addition of over one
million men to the list of federal en-
~ N1,{ hi %<
conservative mind. What is needed is
the gradual increase of federal author
ity over the railways to the end that
every shipper may have a square
DEAL"
The Sioux City Journal finds reason
to hope Secretary Shaw is not worry
ing so much as some Of the newspa-
pers seem to be.
"The greatness Of the republican
victory only increases the necessity of
investigating the tariff schedules"
asserts the Sac City Sun. "How else
can it be ascertained whether the tariff
needs revision? The talk that a re-
vision by the friends Of protection will
interfere with business is all foolish
nes 1t ought to be understood that no
republican congress will reduce tariff
rates on articles made in America to
a rate so low as to drive the American
workingmen out of their jobs"
The Spirit Lake Beacon finds it
difficult to understand why temperate
discussion of the proposition for tariff
revision should arouse so much editor
ial belligerency, inasmuch as all re-
publicans are, in favor Of protection
and discussion can relate only to the
degree Few socalled revisionists,
continues the Beacon, "are in fact in
favor of general overhauling of the
schedules, but rather for the correction
of a few schedules by common exper-
fence known to be inconsistent with
existing conditions. why should such
suggestions cause any republican to
beat his breast in righteous wrath?"
The Cedar Falls Gazette asserts
that the politician who has failed to
note the tendency of the people to-
ward tariff revision and who rests
with a feeling of security upon the
theory. LET we'll enough alone" has
made the error of his life.
Replying to the suggestion of the
T.-R. that if the wages Of Iowa rural
teachers were raised sufficiently to
make them self supporting their rush
into matrlmony might be stayed. the
Davenport Democrat says: Perhaps,
but not likely. They would give up
sso-job for SIS man just as cheer
fully as tho they were half paid. It Is
nature and instinct
state of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner Of the firm of F.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
city Of Toledo. County and State afore-