Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-22

date he can force them to permit the
man.
The appointment of cleaning up
day" by the Ladies' Improvement AS
ISOLATION of Centerville, is an act that
might well be initiated by similar or
CARNATIONS in other Iowa towns.
| Those 100000 Russian emigrants
ticketed to Uncle SANS domain the
coming summer should be closely in
spected and sorted and the refuse
| turned back.
| The new chief of the Chicago police
has made a good beginning by putting
| the slot machines out of business. Cigar
vendors in the small towns of Iowa
should not feel that they. have been
| used so badly after all
Compulsory education brings with 1T
a new problem unheard of before; the
| problem of supplying eye glasses to the
provide them. Only of recent vars has
1t been discovered that the dull scholar
| is very often dull only because of de-
fective vision. Now, with the truant
officer forcing all children into school
what are we going to do with the child
who needs pair OF glasses?
49,
L.,
New York City. leaving an estate esti-
mated at $50,oo0,000 to $4,000. 900.
The incident is OF interest only to IL
lustrate that men of the fifty million
fortunes can live In obscurity in this
country and die total strangers to the
public beyond a lsmall circle OF near
relatives and neighbors.
When the campaign is on and we
need to find an indictment already
drawn for the democratic party. we can
turn to Mr. Hearst's Jefferson banquet
speech where he said
THE democratic party is radical one
year and reactionary the next. 1t ac-
cepts it's defeat on radical platform
as an argument for conservatism, and
its defeat on conservative platform
as an argument for radicalism. And SO
it oscillates between each extreme
without pride or prejudice, conscience
or conviction. There is time
and opportunity for a new party"
Men wishing to dispose OF piece
OF property frequently, ask travelling
men to find them a buyer when a small
sale ad In a newspaper in one day Will
travel on the same train with 50Qtrav-l
cling men and actually talk to more
people.
= Caller-.so sorry to hear OF your
motor accident
Enthusiastic Motorist-"O, thanks,
it's nothing. Expect to live thru many
more"
Caller--"oh, but hope not!"-Puck.
What will Mr. Carnegie and Mr..
Rockefeller do with the rest of thei'
money when they die2 That is the
question which they should meet now.
The one might buy and donate to the
government coast to coast trunk line
and let the people experiment with
government ownership. The other
should build white plague sanitariums
in every state.
Modern diplomacy was explained by
Secretary Root to the American So
ciety of International Law as follows:
THE change in the theory and practice
of government which has marked the
century since the establishment of the
American union" said Mr.. Boot, has
shifted the determination of great
questions of domestic national policy
from few rulers in each country to-
the great body of the people, who rem
der the ultimate decision under ali
.Coincident with that change the prac
7tfce of diplomacy has ceased to be a
mystery confined to a few learned men
who strive to, give effect to the wishes
of personal rulers, and has become a
representative function answering to|
the opinions and, the will of the null
titude Of citizens, who themselves
create the relations between states and
determine the issues of friendship and
estrangement of peace and war"
The first building ever erected in thel
United States for the public use of the
federal government, under the consti-
tuition, was the mint at Philadelphia ]
Robert Morris, the patriotic financier of
the war Of independence, was first toll
bring up the question of national;
mint, and it was he who worked with
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham.
ilton to induce congress to adopt the
decimal system of money arithmetic
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES
Foolish Wall street." exclaims the
Charlton Patriot. Not the folly of 9TH
ers. but your own! Not the unwis-
dom of presidents, of congress, or of
legislation, but your own; not the rad