Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-10
TERMS:
INCONSISTENCIES ENACTED.

| II would rather have been member
held a session in the past twenty
| years" was the expression of a veteran
who has served almost continuously IN
the house and senate since 1883 and ne
was thoroughly justified by the facts.
For honest and sincere effort and FOR
actual results accomplished. the state
of Iowa win look long time to find
a legislature that can be compared to
the one just adjourned.
Last summer saw a bitter campaign
1t was an awful fight for friends and
neighbors to engage in, but results
have justified the cost.
Iowa mas a primary election law
which gives to the people voice IN
nominating their candidates for office
and virtually establishes the selection
of United states senator's by direct vote
of the people
Iowa hasNan anti-pass law that pro-
hibits all railroad passes of every KIND
and description, excepting only emf
ployes devoting their entire time TO
railroad service.
Iowa has law permitting all her
people, poor as well as rich, to ride on
her railways for two cents per mile.
Iowa has law forbidding corpora
tons to make campaign CONTRIBUTORS
Iowa has law giving authority to
her railroad commission to establish
Joint freight rates which will remove
the discrimination in rates heretofore
existing against the small towns anu
in favor of the railroad centers and
law instructing her railroad commission
to investigate interstate freight rates
and make complaint against all rates
unfair to Iowa shippers.
Iowa has a law guaranteeing to her
people pure food, pure medicines and
pure stock foods.
Iowa has a law permitting her large
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business corporation management OF
municipal affairs and law centraliz-
ing responsibility for administration of
city affairs upon mayors, two laws
which will go far toward making Iowa
cities the best managed in the world.
Iowa has law which provides for
reforming all criminals under 80 years
of age with an indeterminate sentence
and an able board Of pardons to grant
paroles to worthy unfortunates instead
of closing the door of hope forever to
her weaker and fallen citizens.
If such an aggregation of reforms
had Nbeen the sum total of ten years OF
effort good work would have been
done, yet the assembly just adjourned
has accomplished all of them. The
travail of last summers campaign has
been fully repaid. The people have
something to show for their fight to
give Cummins third term. The gov
ernor has lived to see more of his sug-
gestions for improving the conditions
of his people enacted into law than any
other governor who ever held office.
The insidious power of special inter-
ests in Iowa politics has, temporarily,
been annihilated. Pure representative
government for a session has been set
UP and the results have justified the
ideal Nothing Of radicalism has been
able to get thru both houses, yet much
of real reform has been accomplished.
Nowhere has there been a fear to
change existing conditions but every
where the fullest hearing, most careful
consideration and sensible as we'll as
courageous conclusions shown in set
ting up new orders Of affairs This is
of the genuine and beneficial
sort. To have been a progressive in
1906 and '07 will be a pround heritage
to bequeath to future generations.