Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-19

growing Of sugar beets, cabbages and
many other forms of vegetable life are
the practical solution of the problem
and they must be met squarely by the
owner of farm land in this portion of
the state within short time. The
renter pays no more for The use Of the
land than before and still has the OPP
portunity of making money, but the
day which sees a quietus in the in
crease of values in Iowa farm lands will
.creasing of values in Iowa farm lands
will mark the time when The farm must
begin TO produce more and bring more
rent to the owner.
A canning factory, a beet sugar re-
fnery and more thickly settled COM
munity to supply the force to operate
these industries will come as a matter
of course with smaller farming and
encouragement Of truck and garden
farming 1t is not far eff and we OF
the present generation must see that
day or else decrease in the value of
FRANKLIN county farm land.
GOVERN MENT BY NEWSPAPERS
Dubuque Telegrnph.)
1--WE are governed by newspapers.
They are at once the judiciary and
legislature, the administrative and
executive forces. What they demand
is accomplished. Whoever sets himself
in opposition to them is riding for
fall"
These statements, made by a student
and keen observer Of events, suggest
inquiry to determine the measure of
truth lin them. What, in the first place,
is newspaper considered in the pres
ent relation? 1t is published word -
publicity. But 1t 10 something more
than that. Words are the expression
of ideas and the latter are influenced
by education and morality. AS man
is moral or immoral his thoughts are
good or bad AS he is educated or I'M
educated his thoughts are expressed
with greater or less force in their ap-
peal to conscience and reason
The average American is moral. II
he lack the quality in himself, he adj
mires it in others. He admires strength.
the will and the courage to do. He
may be fooled into believing aAwrong
thing right, but thereafter shuns the
EflaIl9 OF Lie Ills tAiuI lOSASA AAAAAA'
Mr. Barnum was right when he said
that part of the people may be fooled
all of the time, all of the people part
of the time, but not all the people all
the time. Mems trusts ARE betrayed
every day, but trust is not a second
time reposed in the betrayer by those
who are wise.
There never was an appeal addressed
to the heart and conscience of the peo-
pie that failed to awaken response
sooner or later Garrison preaching
abolition in Boston thirty-three years
before the civil war was dragged thru
the streets for his pains, but his APP
peal to the right was answered. Dem
agogs have appealed to the people and
have awakened response, accomplish
ing temporary gain, but the reaction
following undid the evil.
Any appeal to the people must fail II
it does not reach their conscience and
the reason A newspaper may day In
and day out appeal for support of a
wrong cause and accomplish nothing
merely because its appeal Is not sprung
from righteousness.
In the last analysis it is not the
newspapers which govern. 1t is public
opinion. The newspapers appeal to the
judgment and morality OF the people
only. They set forth the facts and pre-
pare the brief. The sovereign Amer
lean citizen passes on them. If they
receive not his endorsement, they fail
of the end sought. Endorsed, they ac-
complish the purpose aimed at.
We are not, then, governed by news
papers. We are governed by the peo-
pie. Let a newspaper ,betlay the peo-
pie; let it outrage with lihelous utter
ance the unblemished character of a
man, smirch the name Of pure woman-
hood, or depart from the high plane Of
morality, and its influence is reduced
to nothing. Public opinions brushes it,
The public is not in need of protec-
ton against the press. The individual
citizen is not in need OF additional
safeguards. The public will not sup
port any cause or any institution not
dedicated to the good, and failing to
appeal to it as being honest.
Rheumatic Pains Relieved.
3. r. Croker, Esq, now 81 years of
age, and for twenty years, Justice of
the peace at Martinsburg, Iowa, says:
81 am terribly afflicted with sciatic
rheumatism in my left arm and right
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