Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-23
Topics Of the Times

The Marshalltown Times Republic
can says the voters know why the
primary law was enacted and what 1t
was intended to do. "rhey why,
asks the Des Moines Capital, should
Iowa political bosses be meeting
twelve months in advance to outline
the program of what is going to be
done Sioux City Journal.
Aha! SO LATE and George and Joe
Blythe and the rest of the boys are
at it again, are they? And was Gallarn
and VIII PARROT and Ed Hunter within
call Of the conferees?
eft remains to be seen whether or
not Garst is q mollycoddle." says the
Hartley Journal. o, no. If the Her
aid is anxious 70 ran immediate re-
ply it might ask Ben Sallnger or
former County Chairman kortes of
Cornell.
President Roosevelt has sent COM
plete set of his works to the Uniters.
ity of Berlin. 1t is now up to the kah-
ity of Berlin 1t is now up to the
Kaiser to send an Illuminated copy OF
his poems to "deah old 1ahvahrd."
Panama is making macadam roads
Int until it makes a people who VIII
raise something to haul over them II
doesn't seem to macadam sight of diff
ference what kind of highways obtain
in the shoestring Republic.
Burlington has made good start
on Home Coming Week and the
business men and all citizens are
boosting it into prospect Of splendid
success. Let other cities get BUSY
and welcome back the old timers. Make
the Old settlers Picnic the neucleus
of an "old Home Week"
who is stronger than Bryan! asks
the Nashville Tenn, American. Well,
the republican party for one thing.
IT'S a pleasant change. take 1t; for
beneath the old regime.
Tho | CROPPED for glory's glamour,
could never grab CLEAN.
Something. told me / should not, altho
I beat Methuselah's time.
Make a fortune-I'm delighted they've
discovered it's a crime.
Now when I am broke and shftless,
when owe my every friend
Who, when was prone to borrow,
was so careless as to lend.
shall swell with conscious righteous
ness. specific cause of which
IL the thought, II know I'm honest.
cause I kept from getting r1ch.
strickland w Gilliland in Judge.
Good roads from the engineers
standpoint and from the farmers point
of view are different propositions, but
a compromise ought to furnish a fine
Improvement over the undrained and
impassihle mud roads Of Iowa spring.
times.
Are we to have "Old Home Weeks
in Iowa? Why not? Two cent fares
and good prices and prospects, bank
accounts and home longings would
combine to fill Iowa with old timers
If opportunity were given.
Another Indication Of the generally
prosperous condition Of the country
may depend on the fact that during
the six months just ended the ocean
liners out of New York have carried
eastward more first-cabin passengers
nv 200. more second-cabin passeng-
ers by 5000. than in the corresponding
period last year. There were also 81
600 more than last years number who
sailed for Europe in the steerage.
In the literary department of the
North American Review for July 18th,
by Louise Collier Wilcox, and Walter
Maxim Gorky's Mother" is reviewed
Savage Landor's commentary on the
Life and Character of Fox by Ed
ward Porritt. In the department OF
World Politics, in the July 10Th num-
Der of The North American Review,
there are two communications, one
from London on the topics: "Englandss
Tribute to Mark Twain" Difficulties
of the Government and the Measures
on It's Program" THE Question Of
the House of Lords" and the other
from ST. Petersburg on the topics:
Failure of the Second Douma;' Dis
couraging Nature of Attempted Legis-
lation;" Delegates Abuse of Their
Inviolabilty; Responsibility of the
Duna for Unrest and Violence