Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-10
day The name of the statesman will
be remembered by succeeding genera

lions.
The time necessary to bring about
public reform is hard to designate
Here has this country tamely submit
ted to the eXactions of the Standard
Oil combine till Rockefeller is probab-
ly the richest man in the world. APP
parently all the newspaper and maya
zine articles were falling on dull ecrs
The orator referring to this damn
able trust was considered apparently
as a demagogue. Lawson, a man
without reputation for CONNER
cial honesty, has issued his
philippe, and the readers of Every
body's Magazine looked at 1t as
"squealing." Kansas, the home of the
crank, the place where the long
whiskers grow, the state that produces
freaks, and passes laws in effect to
make water run up hill, all of sud-
den hits, upon scheme of remedial
legislation, that bids fair to end the
career of the Standard Oil monopoly.
This assuming that other states fol-
low up the plan of state refineries, and
making pipe lines common carriers.
Query, where and when did Kansas
acquire such reformatory wisdom?
Speaking of Lawson, his magazine
articles are falling fiat, excepting. of
course, to the belated reader and
thinker. Donahue's articles in Pub
lie Opinion, giving the history of Law
sons life and previous financial oper-
atoms, are adding the last touch to
show the insincerity of the copper
man. Lawson has fooled some of the
people some of the time, some of the
people all the time" but "can not fool
all of the people all of the time.
Meanwhile this is not saying but what
many of his statements are true. IL
is not saying but what he has accom-
plished much good by his publicity.
Perhaps out in Kansas they've been
reading "frenzied finance" That the
magazine publishes, "see this finish"
this falling off in interest in Lawson's
writings is evidenced by their COM
mencing in the March number an
article on the beef trust that
has the ear mark of SINGER
ity and truthfulness to commend it..
If the author of the expose of the beer
trust has any kind of stock to sell the
public is still ignorant Of the name of
it.
The Sioux City Journal confidently
expects that Senator Allison will stay
there long enough to become the father
of the senate as we'll as the senior
SENATOR
Just so. But there's trouble ahead,
not for Allison, but for other fathers,
other seniors. Like the Standard Oil
combine, apparently the senate of the
United States as at present constitute
ed, is a fixture. beyond the jibes of the
paragraph writer or the fulminations
of the magazine essayist in a more SER
ious vein. For to scan the columns
of the press of this country today. this
without reference to political affi1ia-
lions, we find an almost universal con-
demnation of their methods and prac-
dailies are in every issue pointing out
that the senate as whole has ire
mendous respect for wealth and the
owners thereof. Why shouldn't they,
when so many of the present body are
millionaires themselves? Silently but
surely is growing a sentiment that out
united senate must be more in
touch with the people and the peoples
real interests and wishes, and such
sentiment will coalesce into action 1t
is more than probable that the success
sors of some of the present members
of the United States senate will be
elected by the direct vote of the peo-
pie, this thru necessary amendments to
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