Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22

| assuming proportions that make 1t no
! longer one to be disregarded. Last
| year shows a record of twenty-five
deaths and nearly one thousand cas-
ualties as the result of one day of din
and noise throughout the United
| States. With scores of new and unique
| inventions for use in producing in
creased noise and spectacular display,
daily making their appearance, with
the day becoming more and more
period of time during which nearly
100000 of inhabitants devote them
selves to the production of barbaric
noise; with tetanus and wounds that
MAIN or kill ever on the increase,
where will it all end?
Is not the day commemorative of
glorious anniversary and should it not
be made a day for teaching loyalty to
ones country and for seeking to Undue
the minds of the young and old with
the spirit of patriotism which possess
ed the gallant defenders of the state
in 1916, and of the union in 1864.
Let the toy pistol, the cannon crack
err and anvil be barred, seems to be
the desire of the sober and thoughtful
and this desire it seems should con-
troll
THE POOR MANS FAULT?
dubuque telegraph
One reason why the rich law break
err escapes prosecution while the poor
law breaker suffers, is that the poor
man has been obsequious, has pandered
to wealth and his sense of awe of the
rich has become fixed in the nation.
You will not find one county attorney
in hundred of them who will not
treat the rich man more respectfully
and more considerably than the man
who has laid aside his pick on entering
the attorneys office. This greater de-
ference for one than for another is
generic, rooted in natures, because we
are descended from nations where class
qualifications are fixed by law. Be
fore we can become genuinely demo-
cratic, we must consider men, rich or
poor on the same plane, until one or
the other shows cause why he should
be regarded as the superior OF the
other. Merit alone should determine
the graduation.
THE LOSS AND GAIN OF IOWA.
Minneapolis Tribune.]
1t is a new thing in American CEN
suses for any western state but Ne
vada to report an actual loss OF popu-
lation. There has been occasional and
temporary reduction OF rural popula-
ton; but this has been almost invarl-
ably been made up by growth of Cit
les
Now word comes from Sioux City
that the state census of Iowa shows
loss of rural population without al
compromising increase in the cltle.
1t is a great popularity of Iowa thai
it has no great city and it's scores OF
little ones show only moderate growth.
They are even talking about the loss
of one representative in congress as
result of the next redistricting.
Perhaps this is natural result of
the arrival of an agricultural state to
complete industrial maturity. Proba-
bly, we should have seen it in other
states but for the growth in them OF
great commercial and manufacturing
cities. In all parts of the world the
advance of modern civilization, with
labor saving machines, economies in
farming and disappearance of little
great markets of manufacture, tends
to reduce rural population.
This was the case in England in the
last century Larger farms are work
ed by fewer people and order supplies
from cities by rail instead of village
shops and artisans. In most advance
ing countries the loss of rural popula-
ton is more than made up by increase
of industrial laborers in centers OF
manufacture and commerce. This is
true of the United States as whole
and of states with a more diversified
civilization.
But the surplus agricultural land
rural industrial and trading popula-
ton of Iowa has drifted into other
states to take part in their larger ur-
ban activities and to plant new farms