Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-10
luwA OPINIONS AND NOTES

| at is an irrepressible movement"
says the Cedar Rapids Gazette, re1er-
j ring to the reform movement. Ut IS
not sudden spasnl. 1t is q write
movement which is o'erspreading the
country and will not end until politics
and government have been greatly pur-
| flied. The reform movement Is not en-
gineered by dernagogs, but by the sober
sense of the thinking people, ana -
bound to prevail"
"If every man serving time for bur-
glary and highway robbery In all OF our
prisons had been on second conviction
retired for life, prison statistics will
demonstrate that such crimes would
have been reduced more than SO per
cent" insists the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican. which favors a life term for
burglary.
The Dubuque Times fears that mot
even the 2-cent fare will restore the
popularity of the editorial convention
in Iowa Two cents a mile looks pretty
stiff to the publisher who has been
travelling from one end of the country
to the other on passes"
"Some men stand up and boast of
what they have done, and forget the
help they have usually found in the
kitchen" remarks the Iowa Falls SEN
tinel. Some women can make rings
all around their husbands. and then
have time to look after the children, the
cows, pet pig or two, and then some.
Don't look upon the wife as hired girl
or serf, Treat her as a wife," adj
vises the Sentinel.
when Cato Sells goes to Texas.
Iowa will lose good fighter" says the
Dubuque Telegraph.
"The Marshalltown Times-eRepubli-
can is out with the novel proposition
that the county superintendent OF
schools be taken out of the list of cleo
tive offices, and filled by appointment
by the supervisors, the same as city
superintendent are now appointed by
the different school boards of the
state" notes the Muscatine Journal, to
which sit would seem at first thought
that the suggestion has considerable
merit The farther the school system
can be kept from politics the better.
Whether the change would work that
way Is something which could not be
known for certain until it was tried"
Observing that the state board Of
control is asking permission of the
general assembly to do the printing for
the state institutions with convict la
Dor in the penitentiary at Anamosa, the
Central City Herald protests. "The
printing fraternity is long suffering
people, but even the worm may turn
against its enemies. The national gov
eminent has long conducted a branch
of it's printing business in competition
ruinous to the country printer, with
only feeble protest from the latter, but
the proposition Of the state board Of
control should awaken more than pass
ing protest from the fraternity
Let the mulct law alone" advises
the Cedar Rapids Republican. "Under
it in fifty-six counties of the state they
have liquors excluded, and in the other
forty-three counties it's sale is very
much restricted, sometimes limited to
only one city in the county. The pro-
hibition they have in the fifty-six
counties may not be perfect, but there
is nothing that is perfect in this world.
Quit hunting for the perfect. Use the
nest available, and praise it ALSO"
Bad Stomach Trouble Cured.
Having been sick for the past two