Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-30
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

| What is known as the Pine case IN
Tama county, the one where the
preachers assisted by a painter depu-
tized for the occasion, attempted to
close the saloons of Berlin, and Incl
dentally fred a revolver into crowd
wounding bystander, brings out
some comment worth noticing. For the
sake of the argument it can be admit
| ted that the citizens of Berlin like ana
drink beer. Another admission can
| also be made that the farmers around
and near Berlin like and drink beer.
| otherwise there would not be open and
| prosperous beer saloons in Berlin. Now
| for the statement made by O we'll
known and well posted attorney of To-
ledo. Berlin, Lincoln township, is
one Of the richest in Iowa, taxes are
less, has less number Of law suits,
less neighborhood rows, than any other
township in Tama county. Has all OF
latest improvements in buildings and
farm machinery, has as high priced
farms as in Iowa, yet it is nearly all
settled by Germans and all drink
beer" This argument brings out an
other one. Cullen, the wife murderer,
the one the Charles City mob hanged
to the bridge, was rank prohibitions
list, therefore all prohibitionists are,
etc.
There's another thought connected
with this enforcement Of law by
preachers. From the days of Had
dock, murdered by the whisky crowd
of Sioux City before and since, all
al tn Fo,, ~.
emily successful in results, ends as a
boomerang. The blow comes back. In
half dozen cases now in the mind of
the writer, where sincere and con-
scientious ministers of the gospel inn
PEELED by a sense of duty, got out Of
their province and took upon them
selves the work of the regularly elect
ed peace officers, the result was di-
visions in the church over which they
were preaching, and they were COM
PEELED to seek other fields of useful
ness. On the professional enforcer, and
we have heard several in this state
with a prefix of Reverend before their
names, it is to be hoped the species
will soon become extinct. These men
Invariably do more harm than good
Convictions on technicalities are con-
sidered by them as great work
An expense of hundreds of
dollars to the taxpayers of a county,
is considered good money we'll spent for
the sake of principle, for the cause of
temperance. And yet these profession
ais as we'll as their few sincere follow
ers cannot and will not understand that
the public wants no such service on
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ion as well as that of temperance, re-
ceives real and lasting harm for their
unwise and uncalled for detective work.
There has been made a great ado
in the papers because the foremost
woman whist player of Iowa has ex-
perienced religion and now comes out
and condemns whist in all forms and
probably card playing of all kinds, au-
thors and finch undoubtedly excepted.
This paragraph will not be a defense
of card playing. Card playing for
amusement needs no defense. But this
attitude, this changed attitude of the
best woman bridge whist player In
Iowa, is nothing remarkable. It's just
what we expect of such a woman, es-
pecially after seeing "a cut" of her in
the Des Moines papers. She's smart.
A fool cannot play good game of
whist. Whatever good whist player,
man or woman, does, they do well. This
woman is intense in her make up. Met
aphorically, when her partner trumped
her ace she killed then and there. She
didn't lead from a sneak, and always
remembered she had a partner. She
didn't talk about dress or servants
troubles after the cards We're dealt. She
didn't ask what was trump or who
played that card? She played whist for
all there was in 1t, and now she will do
religious work just as well, just as
effectively, and will win souls as she
did odd tricks. More power to such