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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
VINO WANTS the PARCELS PosT7

In speech at Philadelphia Post
master General Won Meyer argued in
support of his parcels post scheme, II
will be a great boon to the farmers
on the rural routes, because when
they are able to order their goods by
telephone or postal card 1t will re-
lieye them Of the inconvenience OF
going to town to obtain the necessaries
Of life"
However, there seems no reasonable
ground for Mr.. Won Meyers SUPPOSE
they eat or wear by postal card and
telephone The fact is they don't.
They want to see what they are get
tiles. Whenever the postmaster gen
tiles. Wherever the post master gen.
eral got the idea that farmers desire
to remain eternally on the farm and
have no desire to go to town of Sat
urdays and other days in the week, he
is mistaken. A farm in Iowa at
least is neither a treadmlll nor
prison.
There Is no perceptible demand
among farmers for the parcels post
The demand comes from the mail or
der houses mostly. Some of the health
food manufacturers are behind it be-
cause it appears to offer opportunity
to sell the farmers corn back to him
directly from the factory at from SIS
to SIS bushel. Most of the agita-
ton for a parcels post comes from
those whose business is inimical to the
growth and prosperity of home COM
lnunities.
There would be slight opposition to
parcels post scheme if the interests
and desires Of the country at large
demanded it. They do not. The de-
mand is private, for private purposes
and pecuniary gain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
Iowa Newspapers
lialMslqgEsalsIstsI a1Kjla,q,e,
i THE WAGES OF SIN.

(Ackley Inter County Journal)
Broken in health, deserted and shun-
ned by former friends and acquaint-
ances, Ben Douglas and wife who
were recently released from serving a
years sentence in the penitentiary for
Keeping a house of i'll fame at Cedar
Falls, were in Ackley last Friday
where they expected to get assistance
from relatives living in the vicinity.
They We're given transportation from
Cedar Falls to Ackley, but on reaching
here did not find a warm welcome
awaiting them. After short stay ar
rangements were made whereby Mrs.
Douglas remains here but her husband
was given to understand he was not
wanted and went back to Waterloo
where he asked to be placed in the
poor house to end the rest of his days.
& They are both well along in years
but the sympathy that would natural
~ be extended to homeless aged
couple is denied them on account of
their past life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06

perhaps, few bottles to be produced
as an evidence of faith and good fell
lowship. you know Pve got to make
the raid, boys" says the sheriff In these
cases but / know my
friends" Sure thing, Nike re-
plies the happy bootlegger, I'VE know
you. You're all right and they CAM
beat YOU" And when the sheriff. ii
these cases goes away the gang unan-
imously votes him "a ----- -
good fellow and the whisky vote is
cinched for another year.
What IS to be done about it? Jusl
what Green is doing In Pottawattamie
Precisely what Folk did in st. Louis
What the majority of county attorneys
are doing in Iowa's interior counties
The enforcement Of the laws against
liquor and gambling depend upon the
kind of men communities elect to en-
force them. All this talk of a guber-
Material cross between whisky detec-
tive and county attorney is bosh
pure bosh. References to a whisky
rebellion of long past century. a
rebellion that involved no moral ques-
ton, but one of revenue, Is more bosh
We must elect real men as judges and
county attorneys, we must inculcate
the principle that the duty of law Of
ficers is to take note of lawbreakers
without waiting until private informa-
ton or aroused public indignation
forces them to it and the executive
council should be given power to re-
move incompetent and untrustworthy
prosecutors, mayors and their ilk.
There is no earthly reason why liquor
dealers should continue to defy law in
Davenport and Council Bluffs more
than in Marshalltown: there Is no
reason why gambling houses should
run openly or quietly, except the
shameful neglect by mayors, county at
torneys and those charged with au-
thority, of the oath they took at their
elevation to office.
Who was Folk? Did any know him
before he did his duty? Does any fail
to know him now? Let ambitious men
know that he who does his whole duty
wins, he that palters with it loses.
There is not community in Iowa
where all laws may not be enforced
to all practical purposes by dozen
honest and fearless men. There is no
need Of troops, no need Of state con-
stabulary, no need of governor at
the beck and call of every crank or
fool. But we need men in the county
offices, men with sincerity, sand and
red blood, content to return to private
life rather than perjure themselves by
taking an oath they fear to keep.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
4 PolN1 IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.

We need men in office. Judge w. r.
grand jury of Pottawattamie county
said Yesterday: eff I can't get one
grand jury that will arrive at the facts
respecting violations of the liquor
laws Of the state, will keep on con-
vening grand juries until get one
that will arrive at some conclusion y
The Judge then proceeded to make
specific mention of certain towns in
PottaWattamie county where violations
of the. liquor law are said to be open
and notorious and made pointed ref
erence to gambling. He means bust
ness and those who enjoy personal
acquaintance with Judge Green know
that results are likely to follow his
determination.
Here seems to be case coincident
il not coequal with the conditions in
Scott county and Davenport. It is
readily inferred from Judge Green's
language that Pottawattamie grand
juries are 10th to indict and that coun-
ty attorneys have been careful to con-
form to the sentiment and desires Of a
large number Of the voters who make
and unmake county attorneys. Judge
Green proposes to have proven violat-
ors Of law indicted. Then what?
After the grand jury the county at
torney. No judge on earth can con-
vice against the incompetence Of an
honest and ignorant county prosecutor
or the trickery of a shrewd one in
league and sympathy with the men and
interests he has sworn to pursue. He
must deal with the petit jury that tries
them and who are judges of the law
and evidence He has his work cut out
in county where booze predominates.
If the county attorney is honest and
capable he has troubles of his own. If
he depends on the sheriff for a raid
to seize illegal liquor kept for sale,
instances have been known where a
calculated leakage from that office re-
suited in race between easy going
officers and kilograms or telephone
messages The telegraph usually wins.
When the officers arrive the evidence
they sought has disappeared, except,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
HORSES AND GIRLS.
lOttumwa Review


Des Moines police are having con-
tinual trouble in carrying out their in
structions to clear the streets of young
girls, especially those who are stll1
young enough to wear their hair in
braids. There is scarcely a night. ac-
cording to the Des Moines papers,
when one or more, sometimes as many
as dali dozen of these little girls are
not rounded up and taken home. 1t is
clearly the fault of parents in permit
ting their daughters to imperil virtue
by acceptance of advances of men IN
such cities as Des Moines, Ottumwa,
or elsewhere. Right now would be a
good time, the best time. to organize
a mothers protective society in OF
tumwa for the care of young Ottumwa
girls. Without the cooperation Of
mothers and their exemplary lives as a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06

Suppose" says the Clinton Herald
"t was law in Iowa that all Grim
mails when adjudged guilty should be
condemned to term Of road-making
instead of term of idle confinement
in Jail or prison. 1t would be better
for the state and better for the Grim
inal.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06

| standard to her daughters the police
can make little Roadway In stemming
| the tide to ruin. Yes, we have. a so
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
| animals and q policewoman in Ottum-
| wa to enforcesa specially enacted stat
ute Of Iowa law. but the boys and girls
Of Iowa cities are permitted to roam
our streets at unreasonable hours with
little or no surveillance over their
actions. The foreigner the other day
who said we paid more attention to
raising hogs than rearing children for
server.
IN CONNECTION WITH "RUBES."
(Chelsea independently
We don't believe a gosh darn word
Of it, friend Bosley, but we heard
some hay rube,< who was standing on
the sidewalk in front Of our door just
yesterday. relating some Of the ex-
periences you had at the Shimel sale
week ago last Friday, he made ref
erence to the calf he said you tried to
suck that other Calls ear, but he
wouldn't stand still long enough to
have his ear sucked.-Montour Cour-
Ter.
Ha ha! Ho no! He he! Good!
Us suck a Calls ear! That is sure
great! But see here, my son, that
shay rube" none whatever. Nor sir!
"A shay rube" would not be standing
in front Of a print shop making re-
marks about others. He'd be inside
working like the damphool he is, try
ing to make a newspaper go In some
town like Montour or Chelsea using
up effort and intelligence which APP
piled to bank robbing or some such
kindred pursuit would net him eleven
ty-seven thousand dollars and at least
eight years in the penitentiarysin less
than no time at all.
The "hty rube" of today doesn't
come from the farms He's the fellow
you see over at the depot every time
the trains come in. and If he isn't In
the printing business he probably acts
as ichambermaid of wheelbarrow
over in the local livery stable. His
ranks are easily recruited and kept
to the door and you will see them now
on some sunny corner, their lazy forms
propped up against the WALL a pipe or
cigaret stuck in their gaping mouths;
pictures Of indolent content and don't
careadamitiveness which augurs Ill for
their future. If they are not ION the
sunny corner they are down in the pool
hall watching the sporty citizen poke
the red streaked ball in the corner
pocket and hear him chortle with glee
because he has beaten some mutton
headed chump, whose family probably
hasn't had anything approaching
luxury since they came on earth, out
of the price of the game. When they
grow up they amount to just about as
much as a bucket Of slush in April
when slush isssplenty. That's where
we get our HAY rubes," son, and every
town in the country has durn sight
more of 'em thansit can use to advan-
tage.t .s
Butsthe boy on the farmssis no "hav
rube,Y son. You make a sad mistake
if. you play the farm lad for any red
neclSed Hector fresh from the bosky
dells He will fool you, sure! He's
dead next, don't forget that. He's wise.
in his generation! Don't see him out
on the sunny corner very often, do
your, Nit! He's out in the field
the yellow ears against the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
TIE Farmer's Wife

70 very careful about her churn. Sha
sealds 1t thoroughly after using, and gives
it 3 sun bath to sWeeten it. She knows
that II her churn Is sour 1t will faint the
butter that IS iuade III it. The stomach is
. churn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are almost exactly like the
churnfng Of butter. Is 1t not apparent
then that If this stomach-churn is foul 1t
I. makes foul all which is put into it?
The evil Of foul stomach is not alone
the bad taste In the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption Of
the pure current OF blood and the dissem-
nation Of disease throughout the body.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
1 1t does for the stomach what the washing
and SUN bath do for the churn-a bsolutely
removes every tainting or corrupting ele-
nlent. In this way 1t cures blotches,
pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings,
sores, or opess eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
II you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and respondent, have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom-
ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider.
able number Of them, indicate that you are
suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
ARRANGEMENTS.
The best AGENTS known "a MEDICAL SCI
enee, Int, 14e -cQte ~ Ihs e9oxe sYmpt2mS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
Topics Of the Times

A DR.. Penny of Tulsa, Okla, has
married a girl from Cherokee, Iowa
Such good fortune ought to make a
| penny feel like pound and the
Times Republican hopes that nothing
shall ever occur to make him regret
that he was able to "cop" her away
from the Iowans.
The Cedar Rapids Republican hav-
ing had its attention called to law
violations by a weekly Cedar Rapids
paper, is pretty sure saloons are SELL
ing to minors in that city. However,
the Republican has not yet demanded
troops and it may be has not mem
toned the matter to the county attor-
ney for Linn.
The native Hawaiian population is
rapidly decreasing. In 1885 it num-
bered over 100000, and in 1900 it was
less than 10000, and at present it is
estimated at 10000.
Fear Big Smash in Eggs" is a
headline in recent issue Of the Mar
shalltown Times-Republican. That
sounds little yellow" Rockwell
City Advocate. tas
Since Governor Cummins saw
Roosevelt his enemies have been see
ing things. His visit to Washington
caused nightmares and uncovered
mares nests in any number Of stand
pat offices.
"A Knoxville man is Investigating
thru the Register and Leader the To-
cation where Adam was buried. The
postoffice address of the writer is to
say the least suspicious.
+ The Ames Times editorially advises
that the bootlegger who shot G. Isl.
Morris should be lynched 1t says:
"There is one thing that should be
done, and it should be done
at once, he should be taken
from the Polk county Jail and
strung up to the nearest telephone pole.
This should be done for the good of
society and for the good of business
and for the protection of human life.
This may sound like plain talk, but it
is business just the same
This is more than plain talk and be-
yond the limits of editorial freedom as
it is beyond the confines of common
sense and good citizenship. 1t is law
less talk and should be criminal talk
The man or newspaper that deliberate
ly incites mob murder should be dealt
with by the laws and offered a lesson
sufficiently severe to prove salutary.
First Tippler-There is a lot of rot
in this local option business
Second Ditto (mournfully)-Yes but
it's dry rot.-Baltimore American.
One point that has been neglected is
that President Roosevelt has not made
a personal hunt for mountain moon
sinners. The Sioux City Journal has
been negligent and overlooked a bet.
80
Miffkins-It is said that aggressive,
impulsive people usually have black
eyes.
Biffkins That's right. If they
haven't got them a first they get them
News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

l
. Blydenburgh's death, and most people
| believe he was, he can no more es-
cape punishment than can the law Of
gravitation be changed" insists the
| Mason City Globe Gazette. "Remorse,
failure, sickness, loss of friends, a
hundred things will overtake him and
the reaping will be the whirlWind Of
the sowing. Men may escape petit
juries and courts but the immutable
laws of justice are in the hands of a
power which while merciful is also
just and retribution is certain"
Suppose" says the Clinton Herald
"it was law in Iowa that ell Grim
inals when adjudged guilty should be
condemned to term Of road-making
instead of term of idle confinement
in Jail or prison. 1t would be better
for the state and better for the Grim
inal."
"The railroads are sometimes blamed
for not carrying more freight and get
ting goods to their destination in a
quicker time remarks the Davenport
Democrat and suggests: ut is worth
EGtIlSlIlDtIlIlk ny ILL SliSI SLitlSo anu Wy
the public, that the railroads Of this
country have done more business dur
Ing the past year than they ever did
before in an equal time. That Is true
of every railroad passing thru Iowa
and others as we'll. The records for
tonnage carried Is most creditable
one"
do you remember. you who were
farmer boys, how you used to let the
calves have the use of your fingers to
aid them in learning to drink milk?"
inquiries the Rockwell City Advocate.
THAT was all well enough for the
calves, but you didn't continue that
practice when they became three and
four years old after they had passed
the stage of needing help to take care
of themselves, did you? Wonder IL a.
revision of the tariff schedules might
not result in taking the helping
hand out of the mouths of some of
our industries that no longer need any
aid? IL this should be done it certain
ly would work no hardship upon those
still needing to be looked after Now.
don't let anyone bob up and say the
Advocate is opposed to a protective
tariff and therefore doesn't espouse
good republicanism, for the Advocate
and its editor are republican clear to
the core and believe in a protective
tariff"
That new corn husking machine
can do everything except lie about
the number Of bushels husked in a
day." observes the Sioux City Journal.
"Now that Speaker Cannon has sue
ceeded in making muss of the pri-
mary bill in Illinois he Is not quite SO
much of a favorite son as he was"
notes the Davenport Times. Never
theless it will be perfectly safe for the
Illinois delegation to give him a boost
as complimentary or honorable men
ton"
1.-THE little ruction' in Davenport is
being worked overtime in an effort to
get some politics out of it," says the
Scranton Journal
AS to the proposed peoples lobby in
the Knoxville Journal |
asks: "But who would watch peoples |
lobby to prevent them straying from |
the path of rectitude?"
eff it was not for bossism ex-Sena-
tor Funk would not be silent" says
the Indianola Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06

| bangboard; living good clean, moral
life out In the air and the glorious
sunlight, growing strong and hardy
and efficient and self reliant. Time
| flies, and the first thing you know he's
man, and looks the part. His eye
| is clear and bright, his muscles are
strong his health is perfect. and he
feels in every fiber Of his being the
joy of living. Pap. fixes him out with
the necessaries, and he goes to farm
ing for himself marries some girl who
knows how to make a home and who
never was afraid to stick her hands In
lukewarm dishwater, and at a pinch
can feed the pigs and jolly the little
chickens along, and by the time he's
40 years Of age he has money enough
so he wouldn't have to do Il thing but
lay on his back all day and eat ban
anas, IL he felt like it.
You see. son, things have changed.
The farmer of today is no more like
horse chestnut is like chestnut horse.
Once it was the cheerful custom Of
the picayune, cigaret smoking, min
compopos about the small towns to
allude to the country boys as Jays"
"hayseeds," ''rubes," corn field can
aries" etc. They called him a tight
Wad because he wanted something
worth having for his money, and did
MT shoot off sky-rocket every time
he spent a dollar. But the country
boy of today has EN- all beaten to
light froth. He's the star, when it
comes to twinkling he has the town
boy twank by several twunks. He
comes to town in his rubber tired
buggy drawn by his fast stopper, his
pants turned up at the bottom, same
as is the custom in London, Montour,
and Chelsea and other fashionable
points, and he easily cops out the
prettiest and most sensible girl in
town.
The country boy Of today gets the
girl and the Drawn and the brain and
the money, while his cousin in town
has the bleary eye, the shaky nerves,
the discolored fingers. and thet tobacco
heart. He dies young and the few
who attend his funeral do so because
of respect for his parents, and all
agree that it didn't make much differ
ence because he didn't amount to
cuss anyhow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06
Try This For Catarrh.

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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-23
THINKS PATROL WAS NEEDED.
Baltimore Man says Swettenham
Could Not Deal with situation.

Baltimore. Jan. 22.-'I did not person
ally know Gov Swettenham. Of jamaica"
said T. W. Smith Of the Atlantic Fruit
Company I'm Jamaica. who arrived in
Baltimore to-day from the Inflated island,
but L knew him by reputation there,
ard that is explained by terms that are
not used I'm polite society.
There was plenty Of need for the
American marines in Jamaica after the
earthquake, for the local police force
could not deal with the situation We
SJW crowds Of natives TObbing the ruined
buildings and the bodies OF the dead.
From that I should say that the police
work bV The United States marines was
much needed.
I've could not see that Gov Swetteu-
ham was doing anything which makes all
the more surprising his refusal of aid
However, he is not regarded on the island
as a capable governor. and 1 don't believe
his action is upheld
Many white men We're among the
dead, and it was to their bodies the
ghouls turned their attention. I believe
the local police force was powerless TO
prevent the stripping Of the bodies Of the
dead"