Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-08
Topics Of the Times


I ne wen lpf the lpMi paper Wi'i'" ~
cues that Iowa land Is too high in
price to take note of the item.
That the Wisconsin railroad rate
bill came from the legislative commits
| tee with speed and unanimlty Is due to
IL shrewd threat by Governor LaIool-
| lette who let 1t become known that if
The legislature passed the elective law
! ne would not only refuse the United
States senatorship and also the can
| tiidacy for the governorship. but would
DC candidate under the primary cleo
| ton system for II place on the railroad
rate commission. The last place the
corporations would wish for LaFpl-
| lette would be on the railroad COM
mission. Hence the alacrity of the
committee.
Mr.. Shea OF the Chicago transfers
no doubt feels like moving van, for
getting that a regiment Of regulars
would put him in the one horse class
| In thirty minutes.
| The Chicago Review. 1.-THE woman's
daily" publishes no current news of
crime, holding such news unfit for the
ideal newspaper However, on the
same principle probably that Aexan-
der was a hero and Captain Kidd Il
pirate, 1t rehashes the history of old
crimes and the biography of old time
criminals. The Review perhaps class
es with "old wood to burn and old
books to read,' old crimes to print.
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| Mr.. Bryan's contract with the Tip
| ton Chautauqua for July 4, provides
that the first $3.50 paid in at the gates
shall be Mr.. Bryan's. the next the as
sociations and after each shall
share alike. Perhaps Mr.. Bryan's
scheme is to prevent crucifixion on a
golden cross by retiring the raw ma
| terial.
Hatfield, the rainmaker, Of whom
Julian Richards wrote about, has
succeeded in producing the specified
rainfall and has been paid $1,000 by
| the merchants of southern California
Julian should bring him back to Iowa
| to take a shy at producing political
| lightning.
The Laurel News makes the amende
honorable thus: I'VE were In error
| about the arrival Of a new boy at the
Alex Ingraham home April 10. How
ND
was boy. All doing well, but Deck"
wonders how we knew it was boy"
Postal cards with certain pictures
on them have recently been prohibited
In several countries. In Russia all
cards bearing the portrait of Tolstoi
are confiscated and destroyed; in
Turkey no card bearing the name OF
Allah or of Mahomet, the photograph
O fthe kaaba or the portrait of Mo-
Mammalian woman Is allowed to go
thru the MALL in SaNony all pos
tai cards are prohibited which refer
in any way to the recent adventure of
Princess Louise: In Portugal the
postal officials have been instructed
to destroy any card which is de-
signed to cast ridicule on the king
on account of his corpulence; in
France strenuous efforts are con-
stantly being made to keep out of
circulation picture postal cards which
are an offense to good taste, and
finally all cards referring to the late
Queen Draga Machin and to Prince
Henry Of Holland have been prohibit
ed.
The state Of Louisiana may soon
have good statewide primary election
law for the nomination of candidates
for office. The last legislature provided
for committee of five to investigate
and report and this committee is now
at work on plan for a primary law.
1t is the intention to gather informa-
ton from every state and to arrange
for law that will be as nearly per-
feet as possible Some of the north
ern states will have to begin hustling
if they are not to be left behind by
the southern states in reforms.
Why on earth doesn't Russia pass
Japanese exclusion law for Siberia?
sss
If Mr.. Rockefeller is successful in
stopping the oil well augers in Kansas
it augurs we'll for Chicago Univer-
sity.
Not since the times of Miles Stan
dish have we seen a purer example of
modest self sacrifice than John Alden
Young presents wooing the governor
ship for Murphy ct al and the senator
ship for Smith, never speaking for him
self and allowing concea1ment like the
worm in the bud to prey unchecked
amid the vitals of his own ambi-
lions.
Perhaps Marie Correlli felt her in
dorsement of the simple life was due
to the people who read her books.
The Belgians have long been ac-
customed to horse meat as food, but of
late importations of the animals, main
ly from England, have shown so many
that were emanciated. week and OBJ
viously unfit for food that the superior
council of agriculture has recommend
ed that such importations shall cease,
or that broken down horses, unfit for