Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-27

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The Cedar Rapids Gazette recalls
that according to very accurate his
tory George Washington was called
! Just as many hard names as have beer
! applied to any modern progressive
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald pre-
sents democratic complaint that there
| is much talk of Taft for president. bu
has anyone detected indications of
| popular ground swell in his behalf? l.
! praise OF him heard from the lips OF
/ any but politicians, who think him the
popular choice because Roosevelt is
determined to name his own success
! sor?''
| "As we understand 1t. then" says
the Sioux City Tribune. where Cous-
! ms and Birdsall earned the supreme
| contempt of eve~-- thorough standpat-
! ter was in refusing to die in the har-
ness"
"There will be a hot time in Iowa
this summer, when the federal crowd
gets around to getting in its work.
DFeulClS Tile LluOId lLtOSSl. LNSi '
man has the right to support the can
didate of his choice. but it remains to
] be seen what effect ii will have upon
| the voters of Iowa.
'ITrom this time on the saloon bus
.iness or the liquor department of the
drug business will be understood as
conducted by public sufferance and
not by sanction of law says the Ne
vada Representative.
The Early News wants to know:
Have you never met the man who,
when asked to do something, excused
himself on the ground that he hadn't
time, and who consumed more time
explaining how he had no time than
would have sufficed to do what was
asked of him ?"
The wise man of the Cedar Rapids
Republican tells us that every dol
lar expended by a municipality or by a
county, or by state, or by a nation,
is raised by taxation. The people at
large pay for everything that the peo-
pie at large get, and in majority of
cases they pay an enormous price for
what they get out Of the government.
But they cannot be made to under
stand it and for this reason there
seems to be no help for it."
The Buffalo Center Tribune does not
find fault with any corporation for
taking their cause under any INFESTED
statute into the courts for determine
ton of it's validity or the principles to
be regarded in it's application
"rhe prosperity of the country" ex-
plains the Ogden Reporter, depends
on the confidence of people in one an
other. Scarcely a minute in a persons
life passes but what the confidence of
men is weighed in your own mind
The Sioux City Journal thinks that
Postmaster Boyd seems to have no
other effect than making the Cedar
Rapids Republican nader
SAYS the Manson Journal: "One
thing is most awful sure. and that is
that Attorney General Byers will talk
himself right into the governors chair,
if he don't watch out. when the next
four years roll around fl
The Shenandoah World believes that
eff the postoffice department We're
run on a business principle there
would be a big profit instead of a de-
felt in it, and if the business princi-
pie were applied to the postoffice de-
partment, one of the first things that
would result would be the cutting out
of this free seed distribution farce"
II the new primary law accom-
plishes nothing more than to put a
bar to the continuation in office of
men of the type of Bob Cousins, 1t will
not have been enacted in vain" says
the Rockford Register.