Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-05

gaining. The country merchant re-
| qIires twice the time to buy bill OF
| goods that the city dealer uses. Fur
| uhermore the small trade, perhaps in
! volving less than "a dollar in value. re-
| quires much deliberation on the part of
| the farmer and small country dealer
/ In fact. the successful merchant In the
small country town lis the man that is
| the slowest i'm waiting on customer.
| In the city it's the reverse, it's up and
down. yes and no, a thousand things
settled In hundred minutes. To call
! a trade. In the city no means no. And
| a trade. In the city no means no. And
what is interesting is to notice the
change in the Individual when he move
change in the individual when he moves
| from country to town In short time
| the same man will transact more bus
mess of the same kind in day than
| formerly in week. The reverse is
| true. The writer has in mind now n
man that once owned and operated a
big department store in city. During
business hours he settled matters per-
tanning to his store just as fast as the
questions We're brought to his notice.
Today he is clerking in country store.
and now in ali of his business trans
actions "he is as slow as Jobs off OK"
In a short time the papers will be
filed with the Thaw murder trial.
Some of us think we have been able to
detect the education of the public that
Dooley has mentioned. Newspap per
articles suspiciously sympathetic have
appeared. This young wife of Thaw
has been described as victim, pos
sible victim, to the seductive wiles of
a, man old enough to be her father.
Thaw committed this cold blooded
murder to avenge his wife's wrongs.
Sanford White was libertine, whose
principal occupation in life was to Sc
duce young girls from the country. He
had "a gilded palace" where debauch-
cry of young girls was an everyday &C.
currence. Emotional insanity is to be
Thaw's defense. He was sane imme-
dlately before he killed White, then
became emotionally insane. and then at
once recovered his senses. This trial
promises to be the most spectacular
affair ever offered In the New York
courts. The public should bear in mind
some facts. First, Sanford White, the
victim, was "a man about town. with
all that the words imply Secondly,
Thaw's wife was an actress with an
intimate acquaintance of White and his
associates. Third, Thaw is an unwor-
thy. not to say degenerate son of
foolish mother who brought him up"
TO have unlimited use of money.
Again, and this has an all important
bearing on the sympathy dodge, these
inspired and probably paid for news
paper articles are trying to work up.
Thaw knew everything about his wife's
career, knew OF her reported relations
with White, and In the face of all this,
married her secretly, and for while
both husband and wife denied such a
marriage The public should bear in
mind all Of these things when the trial
commences. Admit the villain is dead
met his Just fate, but don't go into
any Mysteries over outraged honor vim
dicating itself. Admit the need Of a
young wife having protection, but re-
member who and what she was, and
also who and what that protector was.
For once, suppose we fail to be carried
off our feet by sentiment, false as all
the draamtis personae In this tragedy