Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-29
Topics Of the Times

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Colorado now holds up its hands ir
horror at the lawlessness running riot
in Chicago,
/ Clarion, the county seat of Wright
county, will not celebrate the Fourth
| because the merchants are too hard uE
to foot the bills and farmers are toe
poor to afford holiday as explained by
one of the local papers. But it is>ssafe
to bet on the Wright county corn crop
nevertheless.
And now comes Congressman Minor.
of wisconsin, with an acknowledge
ment that there is a strong sentiment
for rivision all over the north and west,
yet the congressman is not a radical
revisionist himself
Spain has just decided to build a
new navy of eight armored war ships,
two training ships and five cruisers
land have them completed in six years.
4 In view Of Spain's work at Manila
and Santiago the proportion should be
changed to eight training ships and
| two war ships.
Recent events have suggested that
| the rumor Of defeat for the Japanese
| fleet was only willy trick of Togo's
I i'm sending a dumy fleet of junSs
against the Russians to draw their fire
Togo has great faith in the effective
ness of Russian gunners in destroying
their own ships.
There are specialists of various
sorts among the New York street mer-
chants, men who sell collar buttons
men who sell shoe laces, and SO on, but
as odd specialist as any is the man
who sells small boys knee pants" He
displays his wares In a basket on the
edge of downtown thoroughfare
that leads to q big market, and relies
for is trade on mothers passing that
way to do the family marketing.
A new magazine has been started
called Human Life but none but a
desperate would dare take it.
greatest railway center in the world.
There is the international railway
congress and the United States senate
there.
| Southern newspapers, orators, mag
azines and commercial club banqueters
are all raising the ringing cry why
should the south send millions Of bales
of cotton to England to be manufacture
ed?" And the result of the agitation
will more factories in the south. What
is the west doing about asking for
packing houses? What can the west
do? Look to the freight rates.
Walter Wellman says ~ learn on
high authority that in sneering at
what some people call reciprocity,
Secretary Shaw does not speak for the
administrator The president has
made it plain to senators and others
WHO Have CdllGu VII ulllll uuI1ilE llAS
last few days that, in his much-dis-
cussed speech at Cleveland, the secre-
tary of the treasury did not voice the
sentiments of the administration"
I. A giant of a man weighing $50
pounds was literally worth his weight
in silver to St. Mary's church bazaar
in Chicago Friday evening. All the
money made at the bazaar was chang
ed to silver coin and heaped in the
scale pan. AS the church owed
debt of $4,000, the crowds were held
in the bazaar until enough money was
made to lift the man by sheer weight
in silver and it was then applied on the
debt. Great crowds were attracted by
the sight of SO much money
The point made by Postmaster Cen
eral Cortelyou in his statement con-
filming all organizations Of postal en-
ployes to fraternal purposes and those
beneficial to the postal service, is that
the postal system was instituted for the
benefit of all the people and not for the
men employed. Men seeking employ
ment in private business have the
right to organize for all the advantage
they can get for themselves but the
government is sworn to serve all the
people hence must discourage orgari-
cations of employees to seek advantages
for themselves at the governments
expense.
There may be some hope for Phila-
delphia yet. Ills said that Mayor Wea-
yer gets an ovation whenever he goes
out to lunch and Alderman Council has
come over from the machine saying:
IT shall vote against the gas lease.
What else is there for me to do? If
do not vote against the lease will be
run out of my ward cannot help
myself Even members of my own
family are pleading with me to join the
mayor and I had to yield"