Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-09
Topics Of the Times

Now that the Pabst Brewing Com
pany has escaped conviction on the
! charge of receiving rebates it can We'll
afford to set up the drinks.
| Call it a coincidence il you want to-.
/ but Shaw says nothing in his speeches
of the presidents fight for rate regula-
ton while he promises tariff revision
as far away as 1908
In answer to the fellow who called
Senator Tillman a liar, "a newspaper
correspondent says of Senator Tillman
that he is mentally incapable of drap
ing the naked figure of truth with ev-
Ell the slightest wisp If fancy
Remember that the man in charge of
the general management of the Per-
kins campaign at the headquarters in
Des Moines is the notorious Ed Hunter
and you have full understanding of
the issues involved in this campaign.
For twenty years Hunter has been
professional lobbyist working for rail-
roads telegraph and telephone COM
panies Not long ago an effort was
made to disbar him on charge OF
bribing a juror but he wiggled out.
Citizens of Chicago are resolving for
renewed efforts for high pressure wa
ter systems in the down town district.
Why not use the beer pumps?
The federation of women's clubs at
St Louis resolved in favor of pure
food. The question now is do their
husbands get it at home.
The average American will envy an
heir to fifty millions but the poor fell
low in Pittsburg who found himself
blind and killed himself because all his
millions were unable to relieve him.
will give us two viewpoints on the
subject.
Rockefeller, the big packers and the
coal and railroad barons were repudi-
ated and described as mot true repre-
sentatives of capital by II. X. Web
ster capitalist and member of the
Illinois Manufacturers Association, in
a speech before the Congress of Re
lgions in the Union Park Congrega-
tional church last night. The control
of great monopolists over natural re-
sources necessary to the sustenance of
sll the people was denounced by Mr..
menace" He branded as criminals all
employers. of whatever status. who,
because of the greed of money making,
refused to pay decent living wages"
to their employees.
The commissioner of immigration
saws that present laws are sufficient
to keep anarchists out of this country |
but how about it il they cut their
hair?
This is the time of year when we
can appreciate the tranps' complaint
that the only objection he has to life
of idleness is the fact that he gets no
vacation.
The publication of the conditions
existing in the big packing houses.
and the decentralization of the meat
business that may follow. is the rea-
son given why Armour & Co will not
build it's beef killing plant at Sioux
City, or increase the present capacity
of any of its other branch packing
houses, as it has intended TO do This,
Of course, is bluff. When such plants
are needed by expanding trade they
will be built and, since the exposure,
they will be built for cleanliness new
or before attempted in a slaughter
house
This is significant as it appeared in
Candidate Perkins newspaper: But
The -Cummins people already have
control of the party organiza
lion for the next two years. They will
nave a majority in the state central
committee They will have a majority
n the committee on credentials in the
state convention. They will have a
ajority in the committee in perman
mt organization in the state conven- ;
ion. They will have a majority in the
committee on resolutions in the state
The Importance of these
advantages will not be underestimated
by any one who is acquainted with the
practical workings of political organi-
.ation. Control of the state committee
S equivalent to control Of the board of
directors of a great corporation. The S
committee directs all the business af-
airs of the party. The convention
direct the work of the
IOWA lFlkiGNS AND kGTES.
The Reynolds meat report gives the
Republican squeamish
ceiling.
That silence is mot golden in the case
f Senator Allison is the opinion of the
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