Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-05
A DREAM COME TRUE
TKeokuk County News

Rabid politics are thing of the past.
That's the doctrine this paper has been
preaching for six years. Extreme par
tisanship belongs to the ages gone by.
Republicans have cussed the News up
one side and down the other because
we didn't light into the democrats and
give them hell" That time is past.
There are splendid men In both par
ties. There are men belonging to the
democratic party who are The News
best and truest friends today.
Politics In this day Of the world are
getting more mild. No longer do neigh
bors and friends carry political chip
around on their shoulders ready to
have 1t knocked off and inviting Il
scrap.
Republicans and democrats now-n-
days are nelghborly, friendly. They are
decent. They respect each others
views and political arguments in the
main are good-natured. Men have
learned that because fellow mar
thinks aud argues that the moon is
made of green cheese is doesn't nee
essarily follow that they can smell
the moonlight. We are getting more
and more tolerant, broader, kinder, bet
ter.
CARE FOR TIE CEMETERIES.
[Perry Advertiser1
But while Perry is one Of the health
lest cities In Iowa in which to reside
she can boast OF three cemeteries. Two
of these are little used and sometimes
years intervene between burlals. Their
gates swing inward only as members
of the older and earlier families an
swer to the call all await 1t Is these
few acres of ground, hallowed and
made sacred to the bone and blodd
which started Perry toward her proud
station as city Of Iowra. which need
the kindly services OF some woman's
cemetery club. Weeds and grass
curl In their unkempt rankness over
the bones of our early settlers, the
clinging tendrils Of some wild vines
clasping the simple slabs which desig-
nate the dead and briefly outline their
span q existence. Weather and time
have tottered the man and cracked and
crumbling headstones are dissolving
slowly again into the elements.
1t should be a work of love, the
pride Of a community, to care for these
sacred yards. Sacrifice and hard
ship marked their early life and to
their bones would be accorded the ten
der ministrations necessary to show
the world their graves and memories
were alike green and remembered
The good work was started at the
Mowrer cemetery last year, the shrub
timber and the weeds were moved and
and burned II would be trif1ing
matter to see that the same efforts
were repeated and additional endeavor
given this year.
Above the graves, among the grasses
and the brush, in the trees and even
cuddled into the carvings Of some pre-
tentious monument, have been found
the nests Of sweet throated wild birds.
There many generations of the feath-
cry tribe have reared their young pro-
tected from intrusion of youth be-
cause of the awe Of the dead and the
deserted look of the landscape. In the
trees along the banks OF the creek hard
by is the trying ground" of the bird
voice, and in spring. summer and fall
their carols and full throated melodies
ring rich and rare from leafy bower
and floating wing. And yet they
would not leave IL the place were more
fitted as background to the purest
tones of love and praise are given in
song-the mothers note to her young.
ALWAYS THIS INSINUATION.
TCedar Rapids Republican,
In the course OF an editorial advo-
eating the abolition of the death PEN
atty in murder cases recently pub
lished, in Hearst newspaper, there
occurs this paragraph
"Men do not often consider this mat
ter seriously when the case of some
brutal murderer comes up for trial
and for punishment. Few of US stop
to think how much of the brutality is
due to the indifference and callousness
of the state. which later Furnishes with
death the crimes which it's own folly
has caused"
Herein Is expressed the dominant
idea which yellow journalism contin-
ualIy seeks to inculcate and dissem-
mate, namely. that all wrongs are
state made, that In some mysterious
manner all human weaknesses and hui
man folly, yes and human wickedness,
can be traced back to some fault in
government to which it is primarily
due. This is an abominable theory
from every standpoint. 1t Is much
nearer the truth to say that all evils
in government have their root in the
character of the people composing that
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