Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-23

ears. He says:
"a certain class of men In Iowa ha:
been bounding me for more than TWEEN
ty years as railway attorney and a'
one ready To respond to demands O
corporatc influence, yet | have advo-
Gated aal voted for eFeTT Nestise %
le.!rl't i1a lao@ii'g to ccr @al Of rail.
!, roHis rsen!d t.e Jp@adts ct 20 The i1-
, Il 81 ~ Tnerce acf 4s'i II ~ !
: az Nts. not g ineH;i e." hay,
= ta ;15a. l,c" - HE ro,iiMt'cc that
of - Il Gnl reported al this le&is-
lalica. have had part in the sd
ycfacy o. lt,l in securing il all and yet
these representations for sinister and
personal motives have been made
What has probably been disturbing
Mr. Hepburn has been the open letters
addressed to him in Wallace's Farmer
and the daily press by Henry Wallace
Mr. Wallace has told Mr. Hepburn that
the big packers can ship dressed meats
from Omaha to Chicago for less mon
ey per pound than the farmers OF
Iowa, 100 miles this side OF Omaha,
can ship live cattle and hogs to Chi
| cago. and he has asked Mr.. Hepburn
to state what he thinks OF discrimina-
ton of this kind. In the last issue of
his paper Mr.. Wallace demands of
Hepburn that he speak, saying:
If your silence was due to the
i reason first named you should remern-
Der that your people have long known
| how to punish as we'll as reprove. If
| to the second you should remember
that wrong and injustice are not for
| gotten as long as they continue to
exist. II to the third, you made a
mistake, the magnitude or which you
| should now be able to realize. What
may have seemed to you four months
| ago to be merely q voice crying in
the wilderness, as it were, has now
grown to a mighty chorus echoing from
| one end Of the country to the other
| You have heard the words of Presi
| dent Roosevelt on this subject and
| know they are as direct and emphatic
as any ever uttered by Wallace's
| Farmer. You have read the strong
| convictions uttered by Governor Cum
Minis, by Ex-Governor Larrabee and
| by other public men in whom the peo-
| pie have long since learned to place
| confidence. You have received let
tiers and petitions from people of your
own district pleading with you to
do them Justice Public sentiment has
become so pronounced that 1t can no
longer be ignored. Even the timorous
junior senator from Iowa. who seems
to spend his days in jumping from
one side Of the stage to the other and
iuh To in, ipu
fences to explain his nirnble per-
formances of the preceding day, has
apparently decided that the voice Of
the people is likely to prove more
potent just now than the wishes OF
those railroad friends he has been SO
assiduously counting during the past
four MONTHS
Goaded In this manner Hepburn may
have decided that to oppose public
sentiment with Roosevelt behind II
would be as foolhardy asj the perfor-
nance of the bull trying to stop an ex-
press train. 1t is not altogether i'm
probable that he could have had the
assistance of Mr.. Blythe in arriving al
this decision for here in Iowa it has
been only n few months since we
have seen Mr.. Blythe in Chicago urg-
ing the late Senator Hanna to run
against Roosevelt and then within six
ty days afterward conducting q sue
cessful campaign for the capture of an
Iowa delegation under the guise of the
only authorized and official Roosevelt
champion. However,. the bill will be
carefully scrutinized.
Raymond, in the Chicago Tribune,
says that:
Colonel Hepburn Intentionally has
evaded the one great issue, which III
that a rate fixed by the commission
ought to stand until reviewed by the
courts, so that the railroads will no
longer find it profitable to resort to lit.
igation for the express purpose Of null.
lifying the action of the committee. III
the Hepburn bill there is practically
no provision whatsoever for the speedy
hearing Of an appeal The new court
of commerce could and probably woul l
take it's own time to decide the CASE
If this is so the bill will fall short
of the one vital accomplishment,
namely, the giving Of power to the
commission to name rate that will
go into force Immediately and which
cannot be evaded by the railroads by
means Of delay in endless litigation.
Raymond asserts that GAS it stands the
Hepburn bill is satisfactory to men like
Senator Elkins, Senator Aldrich, Sena-
tor Kean, Senator Foraker, and others
who beat the Cullom amendment five
years ago." And he thinks "this is
the best Indication Of the fact that it
will not be satisfactory to the ship
pers when they study its provisions
and discover how little real alteration
it makes from the present conditions
except to add nine circuit judges
special attorney general, and two in
terstate commerce commissioners o
the salary roll" Thus it is that Mr.
Hepburn's bill must be studied befo -e
accepted and if the "hounding'' by CO.
tain men has shown light to Mr. Hep
burn he may become the author of
very important statute but if the crit
icisms of the Washington correspon-
dents are well-founded there will prob