Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-03
IOWA OPINIONS and NOTES.

IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
Replying to the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican which intimates that it will
not hurt Governor Cummins to devote
d few of his best years to his own
business after his term of Office ex-
pires, the Carroll Herald says "And
that is what the governor expects to
do. He will certainly look .after his
own business in his usual happy style,
and we have full confidence in his
ability to show the people that there
/ is something doing. But it is possible
that he may have his own notions as
| to what constitutes his own business.
1t will be his business to do whatever
work may come to him in public Of
| fee or out, and nobody ever need to
| worry about his attending to- it. OF
course Governor Cummins will attend
to his own business; he always does"
| The Cedar Falls Gazette never heard
| zone logical reason why women should
not be permitted to vote, as matter
of right and justice"
| The Marion Register warns 'If GER
| tain Iowa gentlemen who have held i'm
| portant consulates for eight years, and
| who are now clamoring for another
| four years term, that if they are re-
tanned they will feel after their return
that their home coming is very much
like a journey to a foreign land.
| THE Iowa of today is not the Iowa of
1897" goes on the Register. The big
state has been doing things since they
left. Its towns and cities have grown,
its Industries have Observation-Disclosures
many times and new men are at the
helm. Better come now boys or you
will have to bring letters of introduce
ton with YOU
In discussing the talk about the
better element" which always breaks
out at election time, the Carroll SEN
tinel exclaims: Give us a rest on the
better element No man is better than
his neighbor unless he does more for
humanity. The assumption of super
iority is very often a thin veneer that
covers ignorance, craft and selfish-
ness"
The Sioux City Tribune endeavors
to comfort Mr.. Rockefeller by assur-
ing millionaires that they may remain
cheerful. eff church people continue
to take their cash with reluctance,
Sioux City wants a wholesale dry goods
house, a hat and cap house, and at
least two wholesale shoe houses. No
questions asked"
"There are fellows loafing around the
Charlton square who pay more atten-
ton to the movements of the Japan
csc army than they do to the move
ments of their own children" disgust
edly complains the Charlton Herald.
"They don't know whether their boys
are shooting craps or learning to drink
in some back alley and they don't know
whether their girls are at home or
out with some seducing tough. They
are SO busy watching the fate of Mrs.
Chadwick and Kuropatkin and de-
nouncing the railroads and the beef
trust for depressing the "paepul' that
they haven't time to worry over little
things like raising a few good citizens
at home"
The Alden Times assures the man
who is the possessor of a piece of land
that he "has the game in his own
hands. There is no promoter or
stock gambler who can Jeopardize his
investment. Where it is purchased
with Judgment, land is always worth
the money paid for it and it is bound
to increase in value. 1t cannot be
destroyed or carried away. 1t requires
only industry to make it profitable and
productive. 1t constitutes a source of
independence in amy condition of the
oil ,tnf e
of speculative enterprises"
Noting the continuous argument in
Iowa newspapers against buying out OF
the state, buying of catalog houses,
the Hardin County Citizen points out
that "the talk is largely useless UNI
less we meet the foreign prices. A
large per cent of the people will buy
where they think they can buy most
cheaply."
The Glidden Graphic says: "The ele-
ment in Iowa that stands for square
deal have had an earnest supporter in
Senator Dolliver and they cannot at
ford to divide their forces or do 9TH
e,,wise than give him cordial and unan-
imous support for reelection. The way
is genuinely appreciated"
Religious and moral agencies can
not accept ill-gotten gains without in
measure affording absolution to the
donnor," asserts the Spirit Lake Bea-
con. Society is not better than its
standards. In accepting the conscience
funds of villainous promotion for the
support of schools and churches there
is at least an implied endorsement of
the means thru which it was acquired.
1t is neither natural nor decent to smite
the giver while spending his gift. Then
the silence that gives consent is the
least that can be offered in return for
the conscience money of the Napoleon
of commercial mendacity."
Secretary Taft returned to Wash
ington from Massachusetts where he
went to deliver speech.