Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-17
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

~ NSeaeo 'liiS dSNNl IloW dIl American
citizen will crawl on his belly and
whine for public job" exclaims the
Odebolt Chronicle. Men who can
hardly be induced to do ordinary work
at any price are generally the most
persistent applicants for places at the
state crib. Every representative and
senator has at least half q dozen letters
per day from men who want to be door
keepers or janitors, or who want COM
mittee clerkships for their daughters
or pages positions for their little boys
who ought to be in school. Truly this
ds AN age of graft"
The Waverly independents objects to
the custom of the farmers of Iowa
who sell pork at $3.50 to 5000 per
hundred pounds and they buy it back
again at $1250 to SIS per hundred
pounds. 1T Is not we'll to continue in
the footsteps of our fathers and grand
fathers in all respects. but wouldn't it
be q good plan If the farmers would
cure the meat they use at home in the
good old fashioned way of the fathers
and mothers OF 1910 to 1902 asks the
Independent. SIT Is hardly necessary
for the farmers Of Iowa to be at the
mercy of the meat trust, both going
and coming. The farmers of fifty
years ago cured their bacon and hams
so that they We're good and they can
do it again il they want to-
IL the man who tolls fourteen hours
a day, wears overalls and checkered
shirt, and his wife wears a poor quail
tty Of calico, how does 1t happen that
the fellow that never works at all
wears broadcloth and his wife wears
seal skinny inquiries the Tama Her
aid.
To the Chelsea Independent 1T really
does seem ON the fact of it that the
work OF the good, honest, earnest
Christian minister goes unrewarded.
while the people flock in shoals to the
banner OF the theatrical nountebank
whose religion Is but a cloak for the
getting Of money. But on the day Of
Judgment he that is insincere will have
ito make answer" consohngly reflects
the Independent. Therefore, let not
the real does of good works despair"
'As a muck-raker, what's the mat
ter with ROOSEVELT" asks the Waterloo
Courier.
Another consideration offered by the
Oskaloosa Herald: IF you don't do
your shopping early people are likely
to suspect that you haven't got the
price,"
Probably Mr.. Bellamy Storer cannot
understand why peace prize of any
sort can ever be properly bestowed on
President Roosevelt" remarks the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
"In the Communication Of Louis
Buses sentence from hanging to life
imprisonment the governor of Iowa
has extended apparent clemency to
one Of the most repulsive murderers
ever convicted in this state, but to
most men 1T would hardly seem to be
a kindness" says the Davenport Dem
ocrat. Except for the hope that
some other governor. some day, might
open the prison doors with a pardon,
a swift death would be by most of us
preferred to the lingering drag of
chilling hopeless years"
The Muscatine Journal confesses to
some curiosity to see how the rail-
roads of the country will fare now that
they have taken away the passes of the
senators, congressman and members of
the different state legislatures, of one
thing it is certain: ."rhe interests of
the common people will not suffer FROM
The change"