Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-23

clerk is having SoOu tlHe, are spent
in study.
The fact Of the matter is, the task OF
the railway mail clerk is really work,
of the hardest kind and the pay at
least no more than the clerks earn. Be-
sides the occupation is somewhat haz-
ardous The mail car of the past has
not been built sufficiently strong to
render the lives of the clerks any too
safe, and the cars position in the av-
erage train has not helped in the d.
rection of safety for It's occupants. The
modern tendency is, fortunately, how
ever, to build cars that are stronger,
and thus protect the lives of the clerks,
Government and railway companies
have decided that the employees are en-
titled to better protection.
DILEMMA OF THE DEMOCRATS.
Gnter County JournaL)
The paramount imperfection in the
government with them is that it does
not provide them Utopia without
effort on their part but leaves obsta-
cles to be overcome by effort and en-
ergy-competition and struggle with
fellow men who are not seeking a
worldly paradise without endeavor.
Mr. Bryan himself has always been
seeking the acme of honor and power
while evading the strain of industrial
or scientific pursuits, and has done so
by means of condemning the present
system of government and proselyt-
ing to his condemnatory doctrines
and theoretical remedies for magni-
toI hat wa a
enjoying the highest degree Of COM
mercial and individual prosperity and
health and comfort in general as
people, is rather an obstacle to their
doctrines and handicap to their ideals,
because they are the fruit Of energy
and industry and the comfort and re-
ward Of thrift.
The world never before witnessed
such an era Of prosperity. But prosper
ity invites spirit of envy and dis
content and provokes sentiment OF
revenge from the idle, ignorant vicious
and radical.
REPUBLICANISM SAFE ENOUGH.
(Ocheyedan Press.)
Last week hog was sold near Stan
hope which brought $3.50. A good
horse which sells for 5000 at the pres
ent time, would have brought no more
than the aforesaid hog about ten years
ago during democratic times. Yet not
more than very few days ago we
heard couple of men talking as II
they thought we might get another
dose Of democratic rule this fall ard
their talk rather led us to think that
they would welcome It, OF course,
they, being progressives, may have felt
a little sore because they were so badly
defeated by the standpatters. but they
should look around them and figure out
how much better off they are under re-
publicanism than they were under DEM
ocracy, and then vote the republican
ticket from top to bottom, from Taft
to Allison. Altho some Of our men
hop onto what they choose to call the
"standpat" leaders of the republican
party and say that they should be put
down and out, yet they find that the
policies of. these leaders is productive
OF more prosperity and good times than
the policies of any other party on earth
Let we'll enough alone, lest you get
something which you don't want and
can not afford to have. If standpa.t
bunch did dictate the republican plat
form, 1t is a mighty good one, anyhow,
and we all know from past experience
that it will bring prosperity in spite OF
the calamity howlers.