Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-05

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will continue those policies, and will
seek to make the condition of the Am
erican farmer even better than it is
now. That is one reason why the west
is for Taft.
| The BARRIERS union and the bosses
ara engaged in a controversy among
| themselves at Davenport over Sunday
closing. 1t is difficult for twentieth
century readers to realize how archaic
are the affairs of the Davenport COM
munity.
Having been thru the same exper-
fence, LATE Young can give Rosewater
pointers on how ito forget 1t.
Note if you please how Mr.. Taft's
personality grows upon the middle
inmate the man at his true worth and
from beginning ito like him because
Roosevelt trusted him now likes him
for himself Mr.. Taft's boom is no
longer Opaque. 1t shines with its own
light.
Build now seems to dbe slogan
in the cities owing to low prices of
building material. 1t should sound
good on the farms where high prices
prevail among the things which must
buy building material.
It is thrilling to contemplate the dis
closures that would ensue in event Mr..
Archbold got mad enough to tell all he
knows.
Candidate Kern is in the south
speaking to the Colonels.
Has Roosevelt Joined the reaction
aries? He has set his boy to work
learning the carpet anaking' business
when every housewife knows that hard
wood floors and rugs are the modern
equipments.
If Roosevelt takes to the stump, as
Bryan predicts, then Mr.. Bryan best
take to the woods.
II want you to understand that in
this great contest for free silver am
enlisted, not for year. not for four
years. am enlisted for the war, no
matter how long that war may last.
shall not cease ito fight until the gold
standard, which has cursed every
nation THAT ever had it. lis driven out
of the United States across the ocean
and back to the old world where it
belongs."-W. j. Bryan.
Is this one of the pledges Mr. Bryan
insists he will redeem?
There is some suspicion that most OF
Bryan's talk about campaign subscrip-
lions is designed to frighten contribu-
tors away from the republican commit
tee.
Wilbur Wright remained in the air
an hour and "a half. But Mr.. Bryan
has been UP there ever since the dem
ocratic convention of SO.
The average salary per month paid
the school teachers of st. Louis county.
Missouri, is the highest, and THE school
term is the longest, of any county east
of New York state, according to the
annual report of j. w. Andrae, super
4 &c,
ty. The report showed that the as
sessed value of the county is So,
0O1 The average salary paid male
teachers in the county is $S427 per
month, and women teachers $57.31. The |
general average is $61.91. There are
800 teachers in the county, twenty mine
of whom are colored. But ffty-tWo are
men.
What prospective legislator is pre-
pairing himself for the much needed
reforms in public highway legislation?
Here is an opportunity for some man
to do as much for his state as Pro-
fessor Holden has done with his seed
corn campaign, much more even than
the man who reformed the drainage
laws.
There We're rumors of graft in
Hades.
',rthis road" declared one faction,
was to be paved with good inten-
TONS"
"Well?"
Examine the material. Are those
good intentions? Louisville Courier
Journal.