Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-15
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

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We read in the Good Book OF the
Of the cause thereof. But in those
days there was no such evils as now
confront San Francisco. The better
lsclass of citizens there deserve the
eomenseration Aof the world. Things
| have now reached such a state, that
| an indicted and seR-confessedS de-
faulting mayor, man whose stealing
makes that of Boss Tweed sink into
insignifeance, is in charge of the city
during street car strike. He noinin-
ally is to protect life and property,
but the perverted ideas of such man
bode i'll to life and property. A man
that could divert. the funds of a
charitable world to his own use. this at
a time when the whole country was
keen to alleviate thousands OF cases,
of real suffering, can hardly be ex-
pected to prevent the attacks of a
mob, composed of an element our large
cities now have dangerous preposi-
ton Before this gets into print we
may read that General Funston, repre-
senting the U. S., has interfered, and
it's well that such man with surh a
power behind him, is ready for the
emergency.
After man reaches fifty years OF
age, the tendency Is to become pessi-
anistic. Perhaps it's because he OBJ
serves public events more closely, per-
haps because during his fifty years
"trip thru, life, he has seen little virtue
rewarded and, much vice escape pun
ishnent Just now the white heads
fear much the two extreme elements
in this country. Roosevelt, in coupling
the names of Hartman and Debs, said
in his sentence of undesirable citi-
zens," what many think and say of
capital and labor. Both are men of the
pronounced extreme. And 1t is well for
our pessimfstic thinkers to call att
tention to the danger to this country
from the words, actions and influence
of just such men.
But the redeeming features OF these
thiHgs, is that corrective influences are
at work from both within and with
out. A Hartman defendsssthe stealing
of the Alton railway property, and a
Debs defends the unlawful acts of al
labor union. The thinking world reads
such words, and the effect comes in
legislation to. prevent more criminal
work of the same kind. Hartman to-
day dares not continue his criminal
work. He has seen the handwriting
on the wall. The criminal element in
the labor unions, have heard from
president that doesn't want their
votes, and a terrorizing element in a
miners union have found state officials
and judges they cannot intimidate.
There is something in and about the
American people that stands for right
eousness. Something in the average
man of 1907 that impels him to put
down evil. That we are slow to an
ger, that we long, too long, submit to
the practices of a Hartman or a Debs,,
proves nothing. Public sentiment. .fn-
ally acts. Its true, we only cure a
present epidemic, and other forms Nof
public ills are sure to come TO the sur
face, but just the same, when the time
comes for action, the great public
finds the remedy
Tn this sordid world of money MAX
ing at time when any way to get I
rich seems to be recognized as per-
Missile, with no forfeiture of social
or business standing, it's a relief to
hear of a business man, newspaper
man, at that that has for number of |
years refused all whisky ads" virtu- |
ally turning down $1,000 a year in
come for the stockholders Of the pa
per- His statement was simple one:
II do not believe that the use of intox-
icating liquors is a good thing for the
individual or the community. There
fore 1t would be inconsistent for me to :