Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-20

block walls and fine pressed brick
front. 1t has dressing rooms offices
and other conveniences OF a modern
building for that purpose. There are
also accommodations for the fire de-
partment and its apparatus. The
stage is ample and the facilities first
class for a town Of that size The
recent improvements are said to be
participated in by Scott township in
connection with the municipality OF
Montezuma.
sol.
NO USElTT HAS BEEN TRIED.
Washington, Iowa, Press.l
LATE Young, since his visit, has no
use Dor China. If he could, by swip-
ing his palm across the map, wipe the
Chinese into the seven seas, he'd do 1t,
cruel man! And after letting the land
lie fallow three years till the infinite
stinks wtre evapo1ated, he would, II
he were God (Which is a very violent
imagination, full thirty horse power)
start another Adam and Eve, or several
pairs Of them, in China, and try 1t
again. No use That experiment was
tried once, and did not pan out. You
need not read in the book of Genesis
farther than the sixth chapter. and
the fifth and sixth verses. till you learn
that the wiclkedness of mar was great
in the earth, and it repented the Lord
THAT he had made man on the earth.
and it grieved him at his heart. That
is the worst bit of pessimis'm IN htera-
ture. The book of Ecclesislstes is not
a patching to it. The Lord made rear
admiral Of Noah, and told him to build
an ark, and store in 1t pairs of every
sort of critter on the earth. and he did,
and he set sail and the whole caboodle
of things that were left, from valley
depth to mountain peak, was drowned
like puppies and kittens, and the water
has not been fit to drink without boiling
ever since No wonder we have typhoid
the water is full of the microbes Of
sinners and critters.
So we have no faith in Lafe's long
editor experiment. in China. Why, If he
he should be given power TO sponge all
the sinners off from Iowa, and repopu-
late it, lit would not be success-he'd
find in the new batch a lot of tariff rip
hpers and anti standpatters, just as like
as not. AS good a man as Noah had
surely, was a piouser man than LATE.
With all his faults, we confess we've
always had a sneaking fondness for
Noah, and of all the men Of antiquity
we'd rather meet him in the sweet by
and bye than any other. In spite of his
Infamous habits he lived $50 years. No
telling how old he might have become
if he had not had the cheerful habit
of hitting the booze and taking four
fingers, or more, at grlp, and encored
it many time, and oft. OF course. II
he should reappear here, he could not
be invited into the best families, but
he'd be gay company out in the barn
on a wet day when the boys were
greasing harness, he chewing plug or
smoking "a corn-cob pipe, and hitting
all the weeds round abou-, and spin
ming yarns. Noah is the first man we
want to meet in the next world. We
don't know that he ever played foot
ball before the gum-chewing antedi-
luvian girls and got cheered for a
touch down, or starred at Chautauqua
but never mind; that makes no diff
ference. We like Noah If his experi-
ment did fail, as Lafe's would II he
should try.
sos
THE ISSUE rs DRAWN.
[Des Moines Register and LEADER
There seems to be some needless ir-
ritation over the political situation i'll
Iowa. Everybody has seen it and has
known it to be inevitable. And yet
surprise and even indignation are az
fected.
There has never been the least rea-
son to suppose that there would be
any compromise in the conventions of
next year by which the old machine,
or the old order If that term is less
offensive, would be reinstated in power.
There has been no better reason to be-
lieve it than to believe that
the reformers in Philadelphia
are about to consent to the re-
turn of the Penrose regime, or that
the republicans in New York are
about to accept again the unques-
toned leadership of Platt or OdeN.
The old regime in Iowa is not mere
| ly Mr.. Blythe, altho because of
| his ability as an organizer his name
stands in the state for what the name
of Cox stands in Ohio, the name of
Penrose in Pennsylvania and the
name of Platt in New York. The old
regime is the regime of men who
in secret offices of great railway COM
panies make up states for the govern
ment of Iowa and who thru COM
munity of interest, personal and po-
| litical are able to number in their
ranks some of the ablest and most re-
spected republicans Of the state.
This regime will not be returned to
power in Iowa next year by compro-
| mise No candidate will be nominated
| for governor who represents its pur-
poses if there are enough votes in the
ranks of the "progressives" rad
icals," "rippers," or by whatever
other designation they may be known.
-the men who have organized and
maintained the reform movement in
| the state. If the issue IL to be forced
between Governor Cummirs and Mr..
Blythe. or any man who, may repre-
sent Mr. Blythe. there will be line up
behind Governor Cummins. If the
| issue is not forced on Governor Cum
Minis. some other leader of the men
who believe Iowa should not return
to the addition, division and silence