Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
It's our way Of doing things. The
Chicago Tribune.

It's our way OF doing things. The
American Indians were civilized exact
ly in this way. And these outbreaks in
the Philippines are duplicates of the
encounters that commenced in Massa-
chusetts and ended in the Custer mas
sacre. AS only a dead Indian is a good
one, so it will be with some of our Mo-
hammedan subjects. And all this not
in carping spirit. General Wood is
only following out line of action our
forefathers found necessary, wise and
Christian like in their treatment of the
noble red man of America.
Within the past two weeks the pa
pers. that is some of the papers, have
and actions of an Iowa ex-congress-
man and present judge, which state
plainly that he was drunk and dis
graced himself and the state. at a
public banquet. This is an encourag-
ing sign of the times 1t marks a new
era in journalism. For it's an open Sc
cret that more than one of our public
men in Washington, thus speaking of
the country at large, do get drunk in
public, do frequent gambling bells and
houses of ill-fame. And yet where is
the correspondent in Washington or
the daily paper that employs him. that
dares to publish such news? This is
noticed here not to mention or explain
why our public men, guilty of the Of
fenses against society Rnd decency, are
not shown up in their true colors. It's
only to note that one public man has
ho1 oh Ia hot yoJ11,1 ioff ty
means. Is there more to follow?
Everything in Iowa politics seems to
be favoring the Cummins crowd. Dol
liver's letter, Shaws speech and Elk
ms attack on Cummins, all call public
attention to the fact that the corpora
ton crowd are bound ITO down him.
Again, they are to ."grind him to dust"
If Secretary Shaw had the ramotest
idea of how unpopular man he is in
Iowa. if Steve Elkins only knew just
how he is regarded by the voters Of
Iowa, notwithstanding their hatred of
Cummins, they would keep their
mouths closed and their pens idle. Well
may Editor Perkins pray Ito be deliv-
cred from his friends.
A recent issue of the Hartford Cour-
ant gives an account of a meeting of
"the Get-Together Club Of Hortford.
Several hundred business men We're
present and President Meilen Of the
Hartford and New Haven railroad was
present. and addressed the me etirs.
He wanted something ana went direct.
Nv to the peop., TO get 1t. He wanted
permission to put down II rall in
the streets of Hartford, altho the cleo
trio lines in Connecticut which this
preat crporation nos. own, j. e.. nearly
all in the stare of Conneeteut. have
lately been acquired by this Dig COR
noration are obliged To lay Hat rail
inside CITY limits He told Che pecp',
assembled III 1T his railway rompa' Y
horpl,t thee electric lines as proposed
feeders TO the trunk line system. Was
frank and free Invited questions and
rational criticism. Said lie pei ": I the
"Get-Together Club" should be more
than name What was for the inter-
oct of the railroad "as for the people
aud vice-yersa. And. before .his town
meeting" adjourned, they passed a vote
of thanks to President Mel'en.
Now right here in Iowa we could
have this cordial feeling between cor
poration and people, If similar methods
were i'm vogue, and some other meth
DDS ommitted. For this Is a fact, the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railway company does not interfere
in Connecticut politics. They are too
smart (Yankeeism to have a Blythe
ON their pay roll. They have no Sc
cret lobby at work when the legisla-
tnre is in session. When measures
are proposed affecting railroad inter-
ests, they openly send their best men