Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-08
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

While it is being suggested that
farmers should be paid for cattle killed
because Of tuberculosis, the Cedar
| Rapids Record fails to see the logic.
Why should the farmer be paid for
! diseased cattle any more than decayed
1 fruit offered for sale? Why should not
| the merchant be paid for moth-eaten
| goods or the grocer for condemned but
| ter, eggs and canned goods? Why
| should not the citizen be paid some
| thing for maintaining disease breeding
conditions in alleys and on his prem
Uses? The Record admits that it is hard
| luck but when man knows that he
must bear the expense of his own hard
luck he will be more careful in his
| methods"
| The Hampton Recorder complains
There has money enough gone out Of
Franklin county during the past TWEEN
ty-fve years, for investment some-
where else. to make every road in the
county into turnpike, to build a troll
ley line from the center of every town
ship into Hampton and to enclose ev-
cry farm in the county with a woven
wire fence four feet high"
There is one point on which the re-
publicans Of Iowa should harmonic
| without any reservations" insists the
Mt Vernon Record. "That is on ma
| jority rule If majority Of Iowa re-
| pubhcans want a certain man for SEN
ator the minority ought to take their
medicine. and get busy for the ticket.
That is what the progressives did at
| ter being licked in the last primary"
| The Mount Pleasant News notes
that the latest is that the test of party
fealty at the coming election Will be
president. congressman and state leg
islature." and AYERS "a man that can
stand for some of the congressional
candidates certainly earns some kind
of title"
"A question worth bordering over b:
Is Mr. Bryan better posted on the
banking business than the men who
have devoted their lives to 1t and
achieved reputation for knowing their
business?" suggests the Sioux City
Journal
"The social evil is indeed an evil.
and it ought to be handled as such,
without compromise and without con-
cession," declares the Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader.
The Scranton Journal says that
Claude r. Porter is the second choice
of the average standpatter as well as
the average progressive. That is" re-
Joins the Carroll Herald the average
republican factionist would rather see
democrat elected United States SEN
ator than to concede the election to the
opposite faction. II that be true
good defeat would be most valuable
asset to the republican party In the
state"
"a fair test is all that any fair re-
publican will ask" says the Webster
City Freeman Tribune, speaking of the
proposed amendment of the primary
law. Incidentally the Freeman Trib-
,ne pleads for the spirit of compromise
at Des Moines. "The republicans of
Iowa have arrived at the parting of
the ways" 1t says. ''If they are not
willing to swerve one iota and meet
upon common ground the democrats
will reap the benefit. Insistence upon
any particular method or plan might
be disastrous. Hence those who have
the good of the party at heart must
accept the best they can get. To de-
mand all will only invite defeat"
"If the legislature is to elect a sem
ator for the short term (and 1t ought
r. 40 COY Governor CumYninS ought
to be the one chosen" asserts the Ce-s
der Rapids Gazette.
"Thirteen farmers south of Tama
City took their families to the state
fair in their automobiles Yet fell
low named Bryan claims this country
is not prosperous" remarks the Traer
Star Clipper.