Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-16
I luwA OPINIONS AND NOTES


disposed of the proposed primary law,
| two-cent fare and insurance PROPOSE
tons, together with the routine work
Of the session and the hundreds of
| minor matters which have to be kill
ed or coddled, the buds will be swell
ing on the box-elders," predicts the
Spirit Lake Beacon.
The Boone Republican reminds the
legislature that sit should not forget
that it has very important work and
that barring this one matter Of the
federal appointments it will have no
politics this year to influence its de-
cision."
The Northwood Anchor, remarking
that there will be sixty-o one farmers
in the coming legislature remembers
when there We're not twenty-five.
Slowly but surely the farmer is COM
ing into his own. If he is not SO
highly educated as some others, he
is apt to be more honest, which is the
thing most needed concludes the
Anchor.
present of more general interest to
try, than this one of good roads,"
points out the Muscatine Journal THE
supervisors of the different counties
are the very men to start the move
ment. 1t has already been demon
strated how good roads can be built,
now the next thing is to get people in
the notion Of building them"
Noting that number of standpat
papers are urging that the offices Of
state printer and binder be abolished,
the Cedar Rapids Gazette finds it
funny they never thought the offices
were a source of unnecessary expense
until the said offices came into the
possession Of gentlemen not of the
standpat faith"
The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
"the thing for congress to do is to
compel the big corporation doing an
interstate business to incorporate un-
der federal laws, such as govern the
banks now and then to permit no such
corporation to sell more stock than
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represents actual assets of one kind
or another. That will be the best way,
to solve a great many of the corpora
ton troubles we now suffer from"
''If the coming legislature Of Iowa
will do nothing more than to re-
store the circle to the ballot, with a
law properly worded to be proof
against misconstruction by the SUI
preme court, much will have been
accomplished" reiterates the Daven-
port Times 1.-THE change should
make it possible for the voter to put
a cross in party circle and a cross
before the name Of any candidate on
any other ticket and have his
vote correctly counted for all under
the party circle he has marked except
in the cases where he has expressed
a preference for some other candi-
dates by making crosses before their
names."
"a swift, sure and just enforce
ment of law, and rare exercise Of the
pardoning power is what is needed in
Iowa." insists the Rockwell City Ad-
vocate.
The waverly Independent tells of SUI
perintendent in public school in that
partof Iowa who complains because some
of the boys in his school "seem to have
a rather contemptuous idea Of law and
the courts" The Independent sug-
gests maybe they followed the Louise
Busse case thru the supreme court. 4
There are many people in Iowa who
are no longer schoolboys who are ia
miliar with the history of the Busse
crime. and who are familiar with the
history Of the case as it was treated
and disposed of by the supreme court,
who have that same 'contemptuous'
feeling. 1t is such history as was
made by the supreme court in the case
of this wife murderer that breeds con-
tempt"