Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-19

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were SO we'll UP on international law,
lnese harbors, became Il little uncertain
when the Lena entered San Francis
leo"
OF the biennial election amendment
! the Hull Index declares i'm Sioux coun-
| ty there will be a majority OF four to one
against it, The democrats are against
| it and e-fourths of the republicans
Ibelieve ii to be merely scheme
brought about by paid lobbys in
| iluence upon our state legislature. we
don't believe there is single township
in this county in which the majority
| will not be at least two to one against
| the proposition"
The Reinbeck Standard observing
| that the town council of Traer has
passed AN ordinance prohibiting char
| ivaring in that town. thinks this is
a sensible move and other towns ought
| to follow suit
| TO the Clear Lake Mirror it looks as
| if biennial election amendment would
not carry but sit may be as we'll to
wait and see what the people have to
say about it."
! The Glidden Graphic finds that "the
| dissatisfaction manifested thruout the
| country last year as a result or the OPP
erations of the new road law requiring
| payment of taxes in cash seems to have
| largely died out. 1t Is p1ain to be seen
| already that much better roads are be-
| ing built and still better results will
| follow as all parties become more ac~
customed to the new system The
clamor so much in evidence a year
ago for a return to the old system
will meet with small favor from now
| on ~
Remarking that the favorite song Of
Candidate Davis is "old Folks at
Home" the Mason City Globe Gazette
suggests 1T will prove popular on cleo
ton day, as the voters will decide it
best for the old folks not to go gala
wanting away to Washington to live
| 'If you do play the wrong kind of a
| game--as you may-and get beat--as
you certainly will--always, Always,
always keep your mouth as tight
shut as you will ever afterward keep
your pocketbook," insists the Burling-
| ton Hawkeye. 1.-The man who would
go wrong had best keep quiet about 1t,
| and not growl about the men who
| taught him the hard earned lesson"
! There is nothing that a free circus
ticket will not do" observes the Coun-
| ell Bluffs Nonpareil 1T will make an
alderman smile; it will make a minister
| laugh. 1t will render a policeman so
| hopelessly strabismussed that he will
| look right past shell game and see a
giraffe behind him. 1t pacifies farmers
| who don't want circus bills on their
barns; it makes the small boy work
harder than he ever will again; it is
magic talisman that opens hearts at
nominal expense
! 1t is the judgment of the Carroll Her
| aid that political speeches rarely make
| a convert. Men form conclusions after
a slow process of reasoning, when OPP
| portunity has been afforded to digest
| and assimilate the food that has been
given them for thought. 1t is the eX-
| ception that a political speech appeals
| to the sober second thought of men.
Rather does it intensity the spirit and
touch the sentiment of the hearer." The
Herald wonders what political speech
es are for, anyhow"
| "The late packing house strike has
demonstrated that the smaller indepen-
dent packing houses are a good thing
for the country" observes the Manson
Journal. "Of course" 1t adds, these
small concerns are not encouraged by
the trusts and railroads, but should be
| by the people,
| annual elections with biennial cam
paigns would be the right kind of a
compromise, possibly offers the Cedar
Rapids Gazette.