Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-22

and die quickly.
Young men of today are deplorine
the fact that they did not live In STIR
ring times when the great issues tha'
made the civil war were fought out
There is just as much opportunity te
be man today, to achieve great
things, to leave your mark on your
country's history as there was in 1861
No greater leaders OF morals OF
thought ever lived, than the men
who are fighting their way now
Roosevelt, Taft, Bonaparte, Root, Folk
Jerome LaFollette. The blazing light
of public opinion, public criticism
drove Judge Dill from his service to
scoundrels at 100000 a year. to
$4,000 place on the bench where he
could serve his country. Nothing else
induced Root to give up 100000
year for place in the cabinet where
he receives only $4,000.
The opportunity to serve mankind
to be Of use to mankind, appealed to
him more strongly than the dirty
money that he was receiving from
dirty men for pointing out to them
the way to keep out OF the peniten-
tiary.
Dep1orable as are the facts brought
to light in all the exposures now going
on, they are among the most fortunate
things for the country. for the people
are going to emerge from this ordeal
firmly resolved to demand and have
far higher standard of conduct.
What is to come Of it, in financial
way | neither know nor care. 1t is I'M
possible now to understand how any
of the insurance companies attacked
can ever regain favor. II John v.
Farwell should lose all his trade he
couldn't keep his army of high salar-
led men very long. He couldn't pay
them out of collections.
This is exactly the situation with
the Equitable, New York Life and the
Mutual. They must either get new
business or go into liquidation. They.
say they are getting new business, but
they are not McCurdy's voluntary re-
duction of his own salary from $780,
900 to $4,000 won't do. He In effect
says they are now going to steal $780,
900 less than they have been stealing
but Mr.. Morton goes him one better.
The Equitable officers, he likewise
in effect says, are stealing $780,.
900 less. 1t won't do. No,
one who thinks anything Of McCurdy
wants him to get along on a beggardly
$4,000 a year. 1t Is not enough. It Is
a reflection on the great society over
which he presides. AS a policy hold
err want him to resign and get place
with larger salary, in an institution
that will appreciate his great talents.
and those OF his sons and sons-in-
law. Mr. Morton is willing to get
along on $4,000 year. but notwith-
standing his generosity and Grover
Cleveland's ponderosity and Thomas
F. Ryan's much advertised philan-
throphy, the people are not falling
over each other to insure In the
Equitable of New York The question
will recur, why did Ryan buy the Hyde
stock? 1t has been asked again and
again. but no answer. Like Jerome
in New York, when he asked as to
Murphy's wealth Where did he get
1t ~ and the question being repeated
became so annoying that 1T destroyed
the whole Tammany fabric, SO Mr..
Ryan must explain to the people why
ne bought the Hyde stock. If he wants
them to trust him. Cutting Morton's
salary to a mere pittance Of $4,000
and putting Grover Cleveland's bust
at the mast head won't do. tss
The other day received from 2
friend in Austria specimen OF the
literature these companies are scat
ering abroad. It indicates a desperate
strait. One is the "L'Assureur Paris
ierl." / can't read it. Another is an
editorial from the New York CONNER
cial of September IL. Another is from
the Evening Mail of September H..
Still another from the same paper OF
September Is, and another from the
Press Of September ~. 1t is queer
reading, but when one reflects that the
Mutuaps press agent testified that he
had spent $1,000 since the investiga-
ton began in getting commendatory
stuff printed in the papers at $500
line, one is not surprised. / will mo-
tice one and then close. This is an
alleged interview with one Alba B.
johnson Of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. He says: II made careful
examination of the manner of con-
Quoting the business of the New York
Life, its soundness and the ability and
integrity of its managers before de-
Gliding to take the policies which |
now hold. have therefore watched
with interest the investigation which
has recently been made into the affairs
Of this company, and it has been a
source of qualification that none OF the
facts brought out have even intimated
improper profit to amy officer Of the
company" Isn't that q corker? Mr.
Johnson must either be very easily
satisfied, or he must have got his poll
icy for nothing. The investigation
shows that favorities were given the
first years premium with a bouquet
thrown in.
we don't find any 81 line editorials
from the World, the Sun. the Ameri-
can. the Tribune. the Times, the Post.
the Herald. the Wall Street Journal
or the Journal of Commerce.