Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-15
Iowa Newspapers
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A PUBLIC LIAR.
(Oto I.eader.)

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Did IL ever occur to you why coun-
try editors are such cheerful liars?
The cross road town today would boy
colt the man who dared to tell the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
in country newspaper Strange as IL
may seem to some, editors as class
are born with a conscience. but as
they rub up against the lying public
who have some selfish motive in view,
their early training at mothers knee
Is too often forgotten in the scramble
for the almighty dollar.
Mother swell-hcad has tea party
and ham sandwich lunch with twelve
present She asks the editor to say
that fifty We're present and four
course banquet followed. Mr.. Blow
hard orders nine dollars worth of
goods and asks you to say that he has
nine hundred dollars, worth on the
road.
Let the rneanest old cuss in Gown
pass in his checks and the preacher
and editor laud him to the skies, No
matter if he has been wife, beatef,
chicken thief and drunken reprobate,
who bucks the tiger while his wife
chases dirty undershirts up and down
the wash board to feed her half
starved family, when this mans ear
cass is deposited in the bone orchard,
then it is that the public expects the
editor to be u smooth liar and white
wash his benighted soul.
Next comes the flannel tongued
scandal monger Of the female per-
suasion, who has ruined the lives OF
many young girl and who has kept
the social circles, of the town in hot
water for years by the use of her de-
ceitful, lying tongue she becomes an
angel in the columns of the newspaper
the moment death paralyzes her
A preacher may be an ordinary pull
pit FOUNDER and a bore to the commune
ity but every time he talks the editor
is no good If he fails to say. "the SER
mons are unsteady eloquent. pro-
foundly deep or dramatically interest
ing"
Every "dinky" entertainment must
be grand. every school ma'am profile
lent, every business man progressive.
every city dad religiously perfect, ev-
cry newcomer a. valuable acquisition
to society, the climate must be de-
lightful, the women the prettiest in the
county. the men the most public spir-
tied in the state, or the paper is not
worth reading and the editor is too
slow.
If an editor fails to conform to these
standards of public deception and
downright lying he will not have a
friend in town, and yet the town howls
for u purer press.
fhoso dir.
cumstances. that an editor lives in hell
on earth and dies with nothing better
in sight?
LABOR is SCARCE.
champion Chroniclel
With the opening UP of spring work
there is more than usual demand for
labor in all lines of work. The wave
of prosperity which is sweeping over
the country affects the laboring man
as we'll as Others. Day laborers who
formerly We're eager for work at a
dollar to dollar and quarter day,
are now eagerly sought after at one
seventy-five to two dollars. Farm hands
who once gladly accepted a job at
eighteen dollars a month now reluct-
antly go to one at twenty-fi to thirty.
The man who is obliged to depend upon
hired labor in the manipulating OF
his business, be he farmer, contractor
or business man. finds that they are
hard to get at high prices. The labor
ing man is gradually assuming a posi-
ton of independence and his work SO
much in demand commands higher
price each year.. Lucky is the man
who can handle his own work, and
thrice fortunate is the one who has
some growing boys who can do work
while his neighbor searches the streets
looking for men who are oath to work
at any wages.
THE PROFESSIONAL
(Monticello EXpress.)
The professional politician has the
faculty of getting good deal of work