Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-28
Topics Of the Times

The Grinnell Herald insists that Nj
l.. Temple is hero in battling agains
corporate greed yet any man except {
bigot who ever served in legislature
with Temple insists that he is crafty
shrewd servant of the railroad ma
chine in politics.
To many of us of the present gem
Grafton a Tennessee governors rec
ommendation to the legislature of in.
creased pensions is strange incident
In the south many states pay PEN
sions to veterans OF the Confederate
army to correspond with pensions paid
from the national treasury to the union
army veterans.
A 21s cent fare bill has passed the
state senate of Georgia that but two
cents would be less of a reduction in
Iowa.
In the Iowa house of representatives
seventy-nine members are church
members and only twenty seven are
not. Even the Methodists lead the
non-church members at thirty. Let's
see, now, if the Sunday closing bill
will pass the house.
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The only comforting thing about this
weather is the fact that it did not ar
rive until the last week in January.
The official statistics show that H.
4S5 of the 1859 homestead filings
last year in the Canadian northwest
were made by immigrants from the
United States. The number Of home
stead settlers from the United States
altho hardly as great as was expected,
is still more than double the number
from England. 1t is also material
increase over the record Of the proceed
ing year.
In calling the national house Of rep
resentatives the greatest conservative
body Speaker Cannon must mean that
its power to conserve the greatest
portion Of the national wealth to its
own salary list has no equal.
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In 1895, a year Of great prosperity,
the Southern carried 1,o9s,932,S39 tons
OF freight one mile. Last year the
number OF tons carried one mile was
4.4Ss,915,s39. These figures speak well
for the prosperity of the south, being,
as they are, almost beyond belief. The
tonnage was transported under less
efficient conditions and at increased
cost, but still it was transported.
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Carnegie's offer to give $200.000,0O0
for an extra ten year extension of his
lease on life, so far, has ELECTED no
reply from Father Time. Can it be
possible that the old man with the
scythe has no use for libraries or does
he consider the conditions of the offer
too onerous?
Atlanta headlines announce Poultry
Show Draws Big Crowd but the ques-
ton arises, white or black?
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Quit your kicking and just think of
what the price of ice would be all next
summer without this spell of wealth.
er.
1t IL somewhat amusing to witness
the righteous indignation of the blythe
at the nerve of a class of
who are dominant in state
politics asking even one appointment in
the federal service or the slightest
change from slate that is made up
to contain an entire roster from the
other crowd.
Chancellor Days assertion that the
people who are poor today because of
their own fault will bear extenuation.
Hundreds of thousands are poor because
Of their misfortunes. Some accident or
disease may have killed the breadwin-
ner. Some accident or disease may
have impaired the capacity of a per-
son to work. But in the other hum
dreds of thousands of cases Chancef-
lor Days diagnosis is correct. Wealth
would have come to them as to others
if the same sacrifices of effort and
frugality had been observed.
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Judge Birdsall will bear watching on
this federal state caucus as we'll as
Senator Dolliver. A few petitions
might be SHE'D his way.
mark Twain" tells an amusing
story about an appointment to lecture
which he was unable to keep. A tenn
perance lecturer was invited at the last
to fill his place. The audience
did not know Mark by sight. and
cheered SO loudly when his substitute