Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-01
Iowa Newspapers
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH IOWA
Manson Democrat.l

Iowa raises crop worth $375,oO0,-
| 900 and spends most of 1t away from
home. The money received for the
corn, hogs and cattle, butter. grain
and other products, instead of being
nut into Iowa banks to boost Iowa H.
nances and pay Iowa debts, is sent on.
| of the state and invested in Wildcat
real estate and mining schemes, into
land that will never be worth the tax
| es and into arid and frozen regions
where a white man cannot exist, let
alone making a living. And all this IN
face of the fact that Iowa has the pest
agricultural land under the sun.
Iowa has more and better local mer-
chandise stores than any other state
of her population in the union yet
millions of her hard earned money are
sent to the catalog houses of Chicago
each year to build them up and as
sist them in wrecking the business IN
situations that are the mercantile life
of Iowa.
PRoHIBITIvE LAW is EFFECTIVE
TClarion Monitor]
There have been times during the
past few years when the Iowa pro-
| nlDltOrX law S0eIuSu AstASS, SSk>SS-~--'
that part of it that pertains TO the
regulation of the sales of liquors by the
drug stores, but recent developments
in this county are convincing proof
that the law is ample and an eHectlVe
instrument in the hands of deter
mined men to compel all to respect
its provisions, whether they be great
or small.
This article is not an arraignment
of those who have felt the grasp Of the
strong arm of the law but rather an
emphasis of the fact that the statute
covers all classes of offenders and is
quite effective in its operations. 1t
is also evident that those interested
in the advancement of prohibition
have not realized what mighty in
strument, if rightly employed, they
have in the Iowa prohibitory law, and
now that the fact has been impressed
upon them there will be less complaint
Of it's ineffectiveness in the future.
It takes no prophet to foretell that
so far as Wright county is concerned
there will be less attractions in the fu-
ture as we'll as greater respect for the
statutes.
Object lessons Of this character are
wholesome. They serve to remind
men Of the fact that laws are placed
upon the statute books to be obeyed
and not violated, and they also serve
to remind us of the fact that all laws
are imperative SO long as any attempt
is. made to enforce them. And now
that it is plain that the prohibitory
law is effective so far as the regula-
ton of the traffic by residents is con-
cerned, an agitation looking toward
correction of the C. o. d. shipments
should be started This is an evil of
vast proportions and one that must
be overcome in some manner. The
ruling that no state has the right to
legislate in opposition to interstate
commerce traffic may be good law,
but it is not equity. There must be
revision Of the interstate commerce
law in this respect, or all attempts
to prevent shipments Of liquor
will prove Of no avail; and as such re-
vision lies wholly within the power of
congress, it is plain that efforts look
ing toward a revision of this law
must be directed toward the national
house. No state law can do the work
under present conditions, but with ma
tional legislation that will allow the
state to govern c. O. d. shipment
the present state law will be found to
be most effective.
PRESS BUREAU BUYING SPACE
MASON City Times-Hcrald.]
The daily newspapers have been
noting the freedom with which they
have been supplied from unknown
sources with prepaid specials from
Washington setting forth the claims
made by the railway representatives
before the senate committee which has