Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-28

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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Observation-Disclosures
Sheffield. Jan. 2S.-That was an in
tercsting bit of news to Iowa people
last week concerning Ex-Governor
Shaw His friends will be pleased to
know that he sold his interest in the
Carnegie Trust Company for over a
million dollars. that his salary was
$40. 600 a year, and that he is to be
a candidate for president and can carry
two states. Leslie NJ. shaw milion-
aire, Is a self made man, and entitled
To all credit for his successful meth
DDS of gaining wealth and honor, but
the surprising thing about his person.
ality is that he cannot see himself
as others see him. No man in public
life, this referring to Iowa, has fewer
friends, either among the politicians or
the people. His reception in Des
Moines few weeks ago. would have
cooled the ardor of even Fairbanks
This was followed by his being
turned down" by the Iowa delegation
in Washington. Yet with all this con-
fronting him, he gets out of business.
"shies his castor in the ring" and is
ready to spend several of his dollars
in a legitimate promotion of his cam
didacy for president of these United
States of America. Specialists OF
brain storms" now state that when
the presidential bee gets into the
bonnet of any man, all of his reason
ing faculties are 'stung' into insensi-
bility. And Shaw is proof of the
theory.
They We're evidently two railroad
men, two telegraph operators. just
talking in a friendly way. not for pub
licaton.' one of them said: Il don't
believe the Western Union or the Pos
tai will ever get over the last strike.
You know I was in the uptown office
at NeXtown. Before that strike Smith
Jones and Smith averaged over $40
a month i'm kilograms they gave me.
or course during the strike they had
to use the telephone, and now they
only paid in the telegraph office at
NeXtown last month. one dollar and
fifty cents. They've got to using the
telephone and keep up the habit
A business man in NeNtoWn said to
the writer recently II saw in the T.-R.
one day, an account OF the trouble the
railroad company had in Marshalltown
to get an engineer to start out with a
freight train, because of the law Civ
ing engineers ten hours continuous
rest. The way I read it the railroad
company was only too anxious to get
any engineer to take that train out,
rest or no rest, and under the old ar
rangement, would have sent the caller
and routed out some engineer, sleep
or no sleep. And while the article was
along the hardships of the poor rail-
road unable to transact their business,
because of such law, the whole story
seemed to me to be the strongest ar
gument in favor of such a law, I have
read or heard Of"
NeXtown has lot of close readers
of the T.-R. Another citizen read that
editorial on Where Are the Boys?'
Said he, poor editor fails to locate
them. That redheaded, freckled face
boy, anxious and willing to earn a
nickel. has Disappeared. He is no longer
with us. In his place is the self
possessed youth whenever asked if he
wants a job. Immediately asks What
is there in it? Nothing less than a
quarter appeals to him. The old man
shells out" when he wants to go to
a show or a game of ball in
the next town. His mother buys
his base ball suit, and takes him to
the clothing store for better clothing
than his father wears. She doesn't
even ask him to do the chores after
school. Hires a man to tend the fur
mace and carry out the ashes. Her boy
much! She wouldn't have him out
these cold winter nights for twice that
money We don't have to ask our
boy to earn money. And your editor
got eloquent and saw the future of
that boy SO anxious to earn a little
money. And that's what hurts It's
the future of the boy of 1908 that
worries me. He will not always have
fond father to "shell out" or a fool
ish mother whose boy don't have to
earn money. Before long he'll have to
stand on his own feet, and such feet!
tell you the boy that carried water
for the elephant not only got into the
circus, but he owns show himself
these days. And worse than all, ten
years from, now these pampered youths
of 1895 to 1905 will be much in evil
dence all over the country. They'll
be hunting soft jobs, places where
they won't soil their hands. They'll be
looking for positions" and the freckle
face will get work and good wages.
These so-called good times are ire
mendously bad times for the boys
going to school for the last ten years.
They have acquired lazy habits and a
dislike for work, all thru their foolish
parents notions, that will last them
thru life. When I was a boy"-
The writer was extremely sorry, but
here's the bus for the depot
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