Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-25

| mibilists' insurance takes care of tina
| and pledges itself in advance to pa!
| for all the farmers and live stock killed
or MANNED by the racing auto. 1t car
not insure, however. against the danger
| that in running down stubborn
| farmer the flying motor may turn tur-
| tie and alight on the motorist in al
awkward. inconvenent and painful
| fashion Hence it is easy to see how
hess of these truck facmers may be-
| come in a case like that Of the Van.
| derblt cup race.
Worst of ALL this stuhbornness seems
increasing and growing general. 1t Is
| likely that were the Meadow BrooF
| Hunt Club, with it's splendid pack OF
hounds, and it's high bred hunting
horses, backed by the creme of the
haute ton. to go racing thru the fields
crushing corn and soaring cattle, that
it would awake a storm of Stubborn
ness. even more astonishing than that
displayed on Long 1slaad. One might
even lima CINE an Iowa farmer with a
Winchester shotgun making accurate
play upon the hounds and using Ian
guage highly shocking and offensive
to polite ears. Possibly he would re-
fuse to await the arrival of the wad
carrier to settle damages, and haul
beauty and money bags before COM
mon justice Of the peace on criminal
charge His stubbornness might take
the form of imagining he had rights
not on the open market and trouble
might ensue. Some Iowa farmers are
mighty stubborn.
An attorney recently made the as
tonishing statement that of all the
cases carried in defence to the supreme
court by auto drivers only one had
succeeded in recurring reversal. Ger
tainly this means something. Let auto
their conclusions.
True, there is All unreasonable
prejudice among the farmers against
the auto. This prejudice has been Gull
tivated not by the utilitarian machine
but by the plaything. Every one .recog-
nfzAs that the auto has come to stay
y y-..Aff
and play it's part in the development
Of transportation. In the Long Island
case the "stubbornness" of the farm
ers has not been aroused by the autos
themselves One hundred might be
hauling celery and garden truck over
the Long Island highways and beyond
some profane intercltanges between
drivers Of nervous horses and chauf-
feurs there would be nothing doing.
Rural mail carriers might do their fff-
teen miles an hour in motors on every
route in Iowa and awaken slight OPP
position. The trouble comes with the
advent of the sporting auto and the
speed passion of Its driver. Traction
engines string along the roadways
from one job to another, and nervous
horses are coaxed past them daily thru
the threshing season without prejudice.
However, were their owners to select
a level, busy highway and race up
and down its reaches for amusement,
the Stubborn farmer and the more
Stubborn city horseman would
spring intos vociferous and active
prominence.
Here is the lesson for autoists to
see and heed, if they would lessen
prejudice against themselves as q class
and against their favorite vehicle. All
this prejudice centers about the
scorcher and speed maniac, the man
who for his own pleasure encroaches
on the rights and courtesies due 9TH
ers. There is no feeling against the
working automobile. A city physician
uses an electric for his practice 1t rare
ly runs above twelve miles an hour. If
he We're to fly down street at a
gait every one would
recognize that dire necessity drove
it ana that human life was at stake,
and criticism would be mute. Another
runabout slips quietly about, run rarely
exceeding six to eight miles an hour.
No one ever heard word from city
men or farmers against it. Indeed the
general expression is I'D like to have
machine like that Here is the
secret not in the machine, but the
driver; not in the auto, but the utili-
tartan auto. The sporting, the careless
and arrogant, reckless and dangerous
are the root of all prejudice
against the automobile
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