Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Topics Of the Times

| over the relative merits of the street
car systems of Waterloo and Cedar
Rapids All of which goes to show what
| small things are needed TO start a
| scrap.
! The Council Bluffs Nonpareil is fifty
| years old and its semi-centennial num-
| Der is proof enough that it has prog
ressive qualities. In fact the Nonpareil
outside of the time that ii obeyed its
Hart and went on Bender with the
Des NIoines Capital. and the Burling-
| ton Hawk-E,ye, has always been fairly
"progressive."
Editor Jarnigan, of the Cedar Falls
Record will probably agree that the
newspaper mans candidacy is a delu-
sion and a snare. He can get what
comfort he may out of the reflection
that good editors have been proverbi-
ally poor candidates Mr.. Jarnigan Is
a politician as we'll as an editor. He
fought his fight for a candidacy that
Black Hawk county defeated in con-
venton. AS one Of the most active
leaders Of the standpat propaganda in
his county where Hunter methods were
freely used with or without his APP
prevail, he went down to defeat in that
historic convention that barely failed
to disfranchise a large city by the con-
test method. He is too old in politics
to gag at the medicine prepared for
progressives and by the turn of the
tables shifted to his own side. The
fortunes of war are to be borne brave
ly in politics as in battle, and Jarni-
gan's failure to land the legislative
nomination is one of the fortunes of
war.
Biornson, the Norwegian poet and
leader of Norske thought, has fallen in
with the agitation for woman suffrage.
Stensland went to Morocco for COW
err but ought to come back to this
country bound in iron.
The crowds of laboring men and
their families who gathered Monday to
celebrate the holiday set apart as their
own grave outward evidence that
prosperity has not passed them by UNI
noticed.
If a trip abroad will make a conser-
vative Of Willie Hearst, the believers
in good and sane governments would
be willing to pass the hat for contri-
buttons to pay the necessary travel
ing expenses.
The people of Nevada have turned to
promoting prize fighting the state
adapted to little else.
The Railway Age calls attention
forcibly to the provision of the new
railway rate law which makes shippers
liable to $4,000 fines and imprisonment
for false billing, under billing, false
weighing and other improper prac-
tees. Hereafter those who indulge in
thes practices will do so at their great
peril, especially since the railways
the new statute odious by enforcing 1T
with the utmost rigidness. But apart
from that consideration, shippers ought
to refrain from those practices. The
doctrine of the square deal is what the
president sought to have embodied IN
the new law, and all who deal with the
railways ought to be willing to receive
uniform treatment from the carriers.
1t is only that spirit which will make
the law effective. Each citizen owes
it as a duty to make it effective and
ont to help ema sculate it or nullify
it,
1t is stated that one result of the
new Hepburn rate law will be to put
the private car lines out of business.
1t makes them common carriers, and
subjects them to all the provisions OF
the act. Besides, it makes it incum-
bent upon the railroads to render all
the special service which these car
lines render the public, so that there
will be no valid reason for their COM
tiuance in business. In order to be
in position to meet the requirements
of it's shippers in this respect, the I'm
on Pacific road, as already announced,
asks for bids for 900 refrigerator
cars, and declares its intention of do
ing it's own refrigerator car business
hereafter The Gould lines control
their own refrigerator cars thru own
ership of the stock of the American
refrigerator transit company. All lead
ing western lines are preparing to OPP
crate their own cars.
"Stories Of precocious children have
often been told but one of the best
have ever heard happened to school
master in a small town which / Wis
tied twice a year, said a commercial
salesman while swapping stories with
his fellow rummers in the hotel cor
ridor 1.-THE class in arithmetic was
being quizzed when this poser was
put to them: Suppose that in family
of five there are only four potatoes for
dinner, and the mother wants to give
each Of the children an equal share
how is she going to do it?' for few
minutes there was silence in the room
while everybody calculated hard. Fin
ally one of the little boys rose to his
feet, and after attracting the. attention
.of the schoolmaster, gave this unex-
pected answer: Mash the potatoes,
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