Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-18
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Britt Tribune denies the duck
| ling and goes on record for the Hep
burn bill as being the best efforts of
one of the best men in Congress to-
wards Formulating a bill that would
meet the requirements and pass both
houses of congress- The substitute
| bill'' it declares lis no better than Hep
| burns bill and while neither of them
| fill the entire wants in the direction of
| freight rates and the transportation
problem, Hepburn's was the best bill
of the two and might possibly have
passed the senate The Esch-town
send bill will not in the Tribunes
Judgment be passed by the senate at
this session of congress to say the least.
In the beginning the people made
the senate. and in the end the people
will reform it. predicts the Waterloo
Courier.
The keokuk Gate City declares,
Rural carries earn all the pay they
get these days-and a good deal more.
Eeveryone of them takes his life in his
hands every time he starts ON his
route this severe, cold weather. In
addition to the danger of freezing they
are constantly menaced by pneumonia
and other grave diseases to which ex-
posure is a predisposing cause. All
honor to the brave men who face the
wintry blasts fearlessly in the dis
charge of duty and bravely make their
rounds regardless of personal conse-
quences. They be long to the ranks
of the nations heroes"
Regarding rate legislation, or any
other legislation" the Cedar Rapids
Gazette believes "the idea to secure
the best that is offered" but it finds
little occasion to believe that anything
perfect will be obtained, and says no
one need expect a total absence of
friction as the result of any legislation.
While it cost Mason City in the
neighborhood of $4,000 to help Billy
Sunday hold revival meetings, the
Mason City Democrat is convinced eff
the old town will drink less booze on
the sly and cut out some of her boot
Logging and fragrant club guzzling on
account of it, the money has been well
spent"
The Burlington Hawkeye asserts
the real legislation and law enforce
ment needed is against private car
lines, terminal charges and other forms
of trust operations-evils from which
the railway companies themselves will
be glad to be relieved
1t is only the first shirmish in the
great conflict for railway rate regula-
ton which the people have won'' says
the Brooklyn Chronicle eff the bill
which recently passed the house were
to pass the senate and become a law it
would need a friendly president and
friendly courts to be effective The
friends of reasonable railway regulat-
ion need not hope for short conflict
and a whirlwind victory. A fight
which must last for years is before
them.''
For once the democrats in Con-
gress" the Grinnell Gazette notices
seem really inclined to stand for
something. We are so accumtomed
to hearing them kick against every
thing and especially against anything
and everything proposed by a republic
can that it certainly is most agreeable
and pleasant to learn that they uphold
President Roosevelt in his position on
railroad rate legislation. Let the good
work go on. There is room in the Re-
publican fold for even Bryan and John
Sharp Williams if the repentance be
earnest and their conversion be COM
plete."
The Indianola Herald noting that
the new road law is becoming more
and more popular, says, Gin very
few years the men who fought it hard
est would not vote for.its repeal. This
law was the cause of defeating quite a
number of good men in Iowa for re-
election as representative from their
counties but these men can have the
consolation of having died politically
in a good cause
"This revival spirit is a pretty good
thing, provided a man, instead of
worrying so much about other people,
tries to save one miserable sinner, and
so begin on himself" remarks the Ack-
ley World che will have his hands full
right there"
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