Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23

| monuments $40 524 %; Lookout Mou
tain. and Missionary Ridge, $14.994'4s,.
Shiloh, $43,SS7.61; to say notnlns !.
Andersonville and some others. ms =
a part of that which is made the SUI
iect of malicious political attack.
In regard to support of the s.a.s
militia the report for 1905 shows sloo'
1926 spent, as against sly, $4,000 w..
| der Shaw" Then under Cunili'hs
there was purchased state encainp
ment ground for more than S20.ooV' -
| there a member of the national guai'
who will put his o. X. on this whofs-
sale attack on Cummins because ~
much money is being spent? -
There are many other items in TINS
showing of what Iowa is DOING
showing which is of great pride to eV,
eryone not armed with muck-rahe any. =
his soul poisoned with the venom VI
| political hate 49,.
Iowa is indeed building for the tu,
ture. That which is being done is ven
done. Prudent Iowa people do not COM
| plain.
The state board of control has pur-
chased land at the state farms, ~
which the legislatures appropriated
costing over 100000. The board mas
built new buildings costing large sums
and with the equipment, the outlay ioi
land and permanent buildings amouh,s
to over S1,590,00O
In addition to the enormous eXpen1l-
lures noted above for the colleges
special tax has brought in an income
which is being expended on buildings
alone and under Cummins' the ex-
| penditure has been about S1,OOO.Ouo
Nothing like it ever known before
| Who kicks?
Then there was the expenditure fol
fire losses. and Cummins didn't start
the fires: and the new state library
and historical building and the stat;
warehouse and the new buildings VI
the state fair grounds.
Iowa spent upwards of 100000 or
the ST. Louis exposition. Are the peo-
pie kicking about this?
Little Iowa" Men.
Possibly these pleaders for a little
Iowa. these men who affect to D'
displeased because Iowa is bigger ant
better than before, have made some
mistake about Iowa being poverty
stricken. A few days ago. in the alb
sence probably of its editor. there APP
peared in the editorial columns of the
Sioux City Journal some figures giver
professedly to show that Iowa is no
being ruined very fast. Condensins
from these we find that in the decade
1895 to 1905 the upward tendency il
Iowa material things was as follows:
Farm land values increased Al pei
cent.
Value of farm grains increased so pei
cent
Value of cattle increased 6S per cent
Horses and mules We're SO per cen
more.
Dairy and poultry products were VI
80 per cent
Railroad earnings increased 4S pc
cent.
Value of manufactured product in.
creased 152 per cent.
Coal production increased 10S PEI
cent.
Bank deposits were boosted 1873 PEI
cent.
Saving bank deposits increased %:
per cent.
In view of all of which it may be Yer.
important that Governor Cummin!
spent few dollars in catching Grim
inals, in hiring lawyers to prescott,
those who wronged the state, and il
showing honor TO the president of thu
United States when he visited Iowa
but broad minded men will hardly joir
in the general denunciation of state of
ficias.
What ails Iowa, if Iowa be in fac
sick beyond recovery as these quacl
doctors would have it? Are the state
educational institutions being treated
too literally? Are the old soldiers il
danger of the govt from too high liv-
! ing? Is too much being done to make
the boys at Eldora and the girls a
Mitchellville good members of society
Was it extravaganza to replace the
burned school building at Council
Bluffs? Was it unnecessary that the
college at Ames should have a centra
building to take the place of the ont
which was burned? Was it crime t.
add to the farms at Clarinda, Glen
wood, independence. Cherokee, Mi
Pleasant, Knoxville and elsewhere
Perhaps Iowa should have passed III
the st. Louis exposition. We are to-
poor to paint the walls of the capito
and regild the dome. The house mlgh
have held several sessions under can
vas canopy. The state library SHOULD
be boxed up to avoid expense. and tn
state fair should have got along with
out a livestock pavilion or a dairy AM
agricultural hall-perhaps.
Calamity HowIers.
Some years ago this same brood o
calamity howlers thought to make
great hit by branding yourUncle Samue
as a profligate because forsooth he ha,
come up to the point of spending bill
lion dollars year in running the gov
ernment How the changes were runs
on the charges against billion dolla
congress-" 1t had it's effect, for tn
people gave congress commission t
make it two billion if necessary. No
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