Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-14

| thru decent Inheritance and Wholesome
environment. But if the ignorant, the
| debased, the pitifully poor are allow
| ed to breed creatures under conditions
| that make it almost sure that they
will become paupers and criminals, it
would be we'll, if we knew how to do
| it, to prevent them breeding at ALL
| "Now then! All together! Three
| cheers for the Boone team and kill
the first man who starts to knock!"
roars the Boone Republican.
Remarking that the suggestion for a
| compromise candidate for governor to
| succeed Cunmins is received kindly
in some quarters and spurned in 9TH
ers, the Webster City freeman Tribune
rises to state that so far as the
Freeman Tribune is concerned no
compromise is wanted. What the state
needs and what the people should de-
mand is a man of the type of Larrabee
or Cummins. No wishywashy, irresolute
anything to-get- the-votes man will fill
the BILL declares the Webster City
paper. Nothing was ever yet accom-
plished by compromise that was sat-
isfactory to anybody. Let the issues
be sharply defined. Let the candidates
and measures be thoroughly discussed.
Let strong men be nominated. Then
victory means something. 1t means
the triumph of certain principles and
policies That is what elections should
involve"
eff there are any more medals to
pass around, why not hand one to the
railroad brakeman who shouts the
name of stations so the passengers
can understand them?" inquiries the
Keokuk Gate City.
Some people have the belief that
the Lord is wonderfully tickled to get
10 per cent dividend from the estate
of such religious bankrupt as John
D. Rockefeller" aserts the Cedar
Rapids Gazette and explains that 'The
idea that the Lord needs help and
that he is unable to give it, money or
no money, has been responsible for
great many fallacies."
ut must be admitted by the most
conservative that there is at present
a great wave of sentiment in favor of
municipal ownership in the land" OBJ
serves the Cedar Rapids Republican.
"The private owners who have been
acting like hogs are to blame for much
Of this sentiment"
Noting that State Superintendent of
Schools Riggs has issued the cry that
more teachers are needed in Iowa, the
Davenport Democrat suggests: IF the
superintendent will see to it that the
| pay of teachers is raised the trouble
that he complains of will disappear.
Rural school teachers in this state are
not to be criticized for wanting en-
ough to pay their board bills at the
| low rates obtained in the country
In the opinion of the Dubuque Times
'eThe prejudice against wealth, or pop
no encouragement from press or pull
| pit. The envy in mans nature will
always supply enough Of both. bet
| ter service can be performed by adj
vising the rising generation to equip
itself for the competition and to fight
the battle manfully and fairly. The
| eternal conflict between the thrifty and
the thriftless can not be silenced but
the ambitious, self-reliant, capable and
reliable will continue to find the door
| of opportunity open"
The Manson Journal says: "The
country town has its advantage in
manifold ways and to find genuine
happiness there is no place like it..
What we want to do is to make it as
nice as we possibly can with the ma
terial at hand Remember that it is
not bigness that conduces to happiness
but that 1T is pleasant surroundings,
good neighbors and friends and con-
tented homes"
"Good Morning" In the Arctic
A Washington woman one day was