Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-09
Rogers in New York Herald.

er and honest method of making parry
nominations it is hardly necessary to
comment upon it."
1 Representative Wise, of Black Hawk
county, voted against an anti-pass
measure in the legislature last Monday
with followers of the lobby lead, and
he was a persistent opponent of gen.
uine primary measure. Has he rightly
represented Black Hawk county sea-
timent?
Now Editor Jarnagin, who would
succeed him in the legislature, has not
a word of criticism to offer on the
course he has pursued.
q, Would Editor Jarnagin have done
likewise?
Would he oppose an anti-pass law
for Iowa if one We're not already en-
acted. and would he, if he should be
elected to the Legislature, vote for a
real primary law drawn along progress
sive lines, law that would permit the
people to have direct participation in
the selection of candidates for office
without the intervention of the party
caucus or convention? And would he,
if the republicans should endorse his
Aspirations, vote for a reciprocal de-
murrage law such as is demanded by
the farmers. other producers and ship
pers of Iowa?
This is the time for the editor to
speak out touching these things.
.s@s.
THE LD-FASHIONED F'ARAlF1F:.
WISCONSIN Agriculturalist.]
The Independent artist has succeed
ed in getting a recent likeness of him
with the aid of very wide-angle lens.
However, it is the old-fashioned farmer
made over. This is the descriptions:
He comes by trolley to the city club.
He gets his mail by rural free deliv-
cry. He drinks Jersey milk, eats oat-
meal, uses a disc harrow and a steel
pillow, sleeps on a spring mattress and
an iron bedstead, brags about his suc-
cess with alfalfa, and his wife belongs
to q woman's club. He has a wagon
and revolving hay rake, fills silo
every autumn, has a telephone in his
house and "a gold watch in his pocket.
His boy plays foot ball and his daugh-
ter plays a ragtime music.
He talks of beans as legumes, and
buys bacteria with which to inoculate
his soil. He reads bulletins more than
he reads his Bible, and has more faith
in spraying than in praying for good
apple crop. He takes his milk to a
creamery and he eats beef put UP in
Chicago packing house.
Instead of a lilac BUSH" Cinnamon
rose" and "pny" his wife has big
flower garden. His wife talks fluently
of L,,. 1,ad of ToiartI ,1c 1ooioiatuS and
Gladiolus gandevensis. His mother
just raised grass pinks and morning
glories and damask roses. You may
look all around his place for old-fash-
toned things, and look mostly in vain.
There is no old-faslioned pork barrel
in the cellar, and when they kill lambs
or calves the neighbors do not "swap
quarters"
There is humorous and very much
exaggerated picture Of the so-called
gentleman farmer. We have him, it is
true, but the great rank and file is still
made up of hard working, hard think
ing farmers The unprogressive black
looking land tiller" has no place in our
system. He is a. blank number and
cannot adjust himself to the demands
of his new conditions and enriron-
ment Our age demands intelligent
farming 1t demands the agricultural
agricultural colleges, a;g-
ricultural experiment stations and ais-
ricultural journals.
The results, however are proper
Tomato The rural districts have near
ly all the advantages of the city and
more. Stay by the farm.