Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-06
Topics of the Times

The development of the automobil,
manufacturing industry is one Of the
marvels of the times. At the Chi.
cago exposition in 1898 there was or
exhibition one lone car costing per-
hops $1,000. In 1907 the amount OF
money expended in the industry was
approximately $lS0,0o0,ooO.
| Gill-Of course, when you heard the
burglar coming into your room yot
alarmed the neighbors?
| Bill never snored louder in my
| life!
| Some one warts to know the cos:
I; of keeping hen a year That often
depends somewhat on the number OF
times the onwer'.s neighbor can be In
duced to replant his garden.
Now If the New York bomb throw
ers will only turn their attention to
the Blank Hand societies. they might
be permitted 10 remain while
longer.
The 100000 Idle coal miners OF the
country would perhaps hardly agree
with the Chicago professor who re-
Gently stated to an audience that the
tendency to save, money is more dam
gerous than the one Of spending 1t.
Charles c. Dawes says that money is
piling up in the bank reserves of the
country and that it will continue to
pile up for the reason that we are
undergoing a period of liquidation.
Some of the speed records and quick
trips made by automobiles in going
from place to place are astounding.
but all the automobiles in Iowa start
ing from one point at one time could
not follow a 15-,,ent sale ad. in a big
daily newspaper
The Register and Leader pleads
that the state binding overcharges
ought to be forgotten now that LATE
Young has induced Major Lacey to
read before a st,,ndpat convention and
subscribe to a tariff ripping platform.
Next to iron, the most valuable min
eral production Of this country is cop
per. of which CROUCH is produced an
nually to give every American man,
woman and child two dollars worth
each if it were divided out. In Arizona
alone the production of copper in 1906
was s54,o00.000.
When Elkins wrote a letter to the
people Of Iowa scoring Cummins for
what the latter had said before the
interstate commerce commission, he
was no more ridiculous than the fell
low who would make friend of the
dear peepul' out of Jim Trewin, Judge
Hubbard's candidate for governor in
1901, local attorney for the G. &, N. W.,
the Illinois Central and the c., r. I. &
P. railways, the gas company, etc.
That was a magnificent endorsement
given to ex-Speaker Clarke by the Des
Moines Capital considering that Clarke
has always been so pronounced as a
progressive in Iowa politics. Clarke
ought to make, an ideal lieutenant
governor.
If Jim Good Were in congress the
president would not have to send over
to Capital Hill to ascertain whether
Good would support his reform meas
ures. Good has; never yet learned the
art Of serving special interests. He
would have nothing to forget in trying
to serve the public. He has no career
in the state legislature which would
cause his probable alliances to be I'M
der suspicion.
Farmers who drive to town every
day to give their children the advan-
tages of city, graded schools, or who
leave the farm and move to town to
educate their children, have little pa
thence with the fellow who opposes
rural school consolidation.
This dry spring finds few croakers in