Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-25
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

about reforms. frequently is oil NIUE
value. To Illustrate, the outrageous
condition of political affairs. both N
san Francisco and Philadelphia ap-
parently. Is but little affected by the
onslaught of the newspapers. In the
former city. what reform mas been
brought about, is the result OF lndl-
yidual work. in the beginning almost
unaided by the most respectable dailies
of the city. In the Quaker City the
aanr in possession and power seem
ingly care nothing for the numerous
"eyposures' of their nefarious work,
and the readers of the paper care as
little. BY a curious phase OF the pub
lie mind, however. if the people remain
inert and passive when many forms
of w~ickedness are shown them, the
self same public will not allow to
| continue for any length of time, and
open work on the part of the press In
| favor of immortality, crime. anarchy.
treason, etc. We all remember the
Atlanta mob and riots. AT the time,
| the News of hat city was the expo
nent Of the majority. After a while
the News went into bankruptcy. Many
reasons were given for its failure. The
rest Of the press, however, commonly
attribute the failure of The News to
the desire of Atlanta to administer to
it a rebuke for it's inflammatory policy.
Says the Charleston Post, for in
stance:
The News was held largely respons-
ible for the outbreak against the ne
sroes which occurred IN Atlanta last
80. =. n,3 "a hoe hnJ11,y n1tpro{n1
and approved %lvnching and urged the
organization of Ku Klux clans. The
News offered a reward Of 1000 to any
one who could prove that he had put
to death a negro rapist and also un-
dertook to maintain IL pack of blood
hounds and a posse to hunt down
criminal negroes on call. The atti-
tude Of the paper alienated the sym
pathy of those who had given it
tenance and support. and it's business
has dwindled away until it has been
forced to confess bankruptcy"
The Hartford C'ourant. which is. by
the way, an eastern daily, with pro-
gressive western IDEAS, last season had
the following editorial, and now with
Oul oIlltSQ Nidl''S 4SGlliioIld NoHlcSt
approaching. it is apropos now here in
Iowa:
Between President Roosevelt stand
ing for the Right and the Senate
standing on its rights. the country will
not hesitate an instant in lining up
We never had q more popular presi-
dent, and there never was a time when
the senate was more unpopular than
1t is today. Proverbially Washington
is the poorest place In which to gather
the sentiment OF the country, but 1t
seems as if even down there it would
occur to more of the members of that
body that they ere imperiling it's ma
ture If not its very existence. They
will force the popular election of ems
tors, at least; and that will change
the makeup materially, If it does not
improve it.
1t is bad enough when the senators
try to laugh down the movement that
has put the recent railroad bin thru
the house almost unanimously, and sit
by deaf and ~immovable. May be /. is
Senatorial courtesy paid to the rail-
road presidents, express company pres
idents, railroad directors and the like
who have seats among them. But
whatever it is, it CRATES. Everybody
is bigger thar anybody and eventually
the majority will win, altho the
laundering attempts to stifle public
opinion may drive us all together into
government ownership.
But, bad as all that may be, 1t seems
less exasperatinss than for the senators
to stand on petty points of etiquette
and block progressive measures of in
ternational Importance h consid-
Grafton of senatorial privilege. When
a railroad president senator votes
against railroad measures, the public
assume that he has a personal and
pecuniary reason for his action. The
day for retiring because of a personal
interest has gone by the day of tax
ing care of those who sem you is here.
But even. pecunlary and venal reasons
are lacking where the sole excuse is
the fear of the infringement of privi-
lege and the apprehension that the
president may be strengthening him
self at The same time that he is help
ing the country. 1T isn't he that is
telittling the senate; it does that for
itself"
In Grinne1l when it came to the
question of the Congregational new
minister's salary, some good Christian
business men. plainly put this propo-
sitien. When we some years ago,
made our preachers salary $4,000 a
rear. it was enough. Today u new
minister finds the purchasing power Of
a dollar lessened 20 to 80 per cent.
Therefore we will pay our new preach
er $500 q year, and buy a parsonage
for his use. That's what one big
church in Iowa has done. Down east