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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
ROADS AND CONVICT LABOR.

Virginia. West Virginia, Kentucky.
Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Texas, Florida. and Georgia prisoners
convicted Of misdemeanors only may
be assigned to work on the public
roads and for these the sentence does
not usually exceed one year, which.
when the costs are added, may be
thereby extended to nearly two years
in extreme cases. In Alabama, in .
few cases, all able bodied male pris-
oners whose terms of sentence do not
exceed two years may be assigned to
work on the public roads. In South
Carolina this limit is extended to five
years, and In North Carolina to ten
years.
The experience in North Carolina
during the past ten years, has shown
that all the able-bodied male pris-
oners whose terms of sentence do not
exceed ten years may be successfully
employed at the ordinary work OF
highway Improvement. Many such
prisoners in different southern states
whose terms Of sentence range be-
tween one and ten years are now en-
ployed under either the lease or con-
tract system. or under state control,
and are working on farms or In mines
and factories All Of these might be
employed in improving the public high
ways. The expense entailed would not
be great: the difficulties which seem
to stand in the way would disappear
in practice and the result would be OF
incalcuable benefit in helping along
Industrial and educational development
in each OF these states.
The experience In California has
shown also that even the longer-term
convicts can be employed to great adj
vantage by the state in quarrying and
crushing stone at one or more central
points for use In permanent road
building Stone IS being extensively
crushed in this way In California at
less than half what IS costs to do this
work with hired labor in other states.
The quarries used for this purpose are
surrounded by a strong stockade which
also incloses the convict quarters, and
the escape of prisoners under such
conditions is not greater than that
from the state prisons. Such a system
Is applicable. and could be adopted to
advantage in each Of the southern
states, except In Mississippi, Louisiana
and perhaps Florida.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
fFor Sunday Reading:
l-t3-fki-k.i-I-i-i-i~-FsA
Christian Psychology.
Al Sort, Of Opinions.

The application of the facts OF
Christian psychology as made by
Bishop Irallows was commended by
Rev. John Thompson of the McCabe
Memorial Methodist Episcopal church
who saw in this new movement call
to the church to broaden its message
and reach more people in more ways.
Rev. John Thompson said In part:
The teaching and new application
of the facts of Christian psychology to
which Bishop Falows is giving prom
,inence is just anosher call to the
church TO broaden her message and
enlarge her program. The holder
minds among us have been urging a
new application of the gospel to the
needs ofhuman life
Il believe we have in this new APP
plicaton of Christian psychology a
happy middle position between the ex-
tremes of Christian Science on the
one hand and the defective theology
of a few generations ago on the other
hand.
The extreme tenets Of Christian
Science can never be accepted by peo-
pie accustomed to weigh we'll every
sent. We must not ridicule it. But l
see no reason why the Christian
churches should not undertake some
such work as Bishop Falows is do
ing There is much need of it. Chris
tian Science operates chiefly among
the rich who have plenty of time to
nurse their ailments. 1t builds costly
temples on the boulevards and con-
structs pews where physical discom-
fort is reduced to minimum.
let the churches carry there heal
ing comforts to the poor. the Sums,
where they have their many missions.
I'VE Methodists should especially
take it up. Did not John Wesley min
lister to the sick according to the best
standards Of healing he knew, and are
not our bishops at their ordination
commissioned to heal the sick% | be-
lieve in this new movement. There is
value in it, and it will spread and
grow and abide"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

| The principle which obtains in the
punishment of the criminal Is the pre-
vention of crime. both by reforming OF
permanently combining him and by de-
terring others from following his bad
example. In the accomplishment OF
this purpose 1t has come to be gener-
| ally admitted that during the infliction
! of punishment the physical health OF
the prisoner should not be impaired,
and that everything possible should be
done looking to such Improvement OF
his character as may fit him for bet
ter citizenship.
Another principle, In no sense out OF
harmony with the first, and which, In
this connection, is worthy of more gen
eral acceptance, is that the prisoner
who has injured a community thru
the commission of crime, and whose
capture, conviction, and punishment
have added to it's financial burden,
should if possible, in connection with
his punishment, do something to bene-
fit the community which he has in
jured The correctness of this prin-
ciple is coming to be widely accepted
in the southern states, where the be-
lief prevails that perhaps the best way
in which a criminal can benefit the
community he has injured Is in help
ing to improve it's public highways.
And in doing this work without COM
pensation and at a cost actually less,
in many cases, than that of his keep
in the county Jail, he Is benefiting his
community without imposing on it an
additional tax burden; he is not in the
ordinary sense competing with hired
labor, and he is doing work which
hired labor does not care to do unless
paid such wages as will prove too
serious drain on the public treasury.
This method of employing convict
labor in majority of the southern
states may be fairly said to have
passed the experimental stage. and to
have become part of the accepted
practice.
The use Of convict labor in public
road building is most largely prac-
ticed in the state of Georgia, Ten
nessee, Texas, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Kentucky, in the order
named. In Virginia. where only TWEEN
ty-three convicts are reported as hav-
ing been used on the public roads of
the state, and these confined to four
counties and in Alabama, where only
twenty-five convicts are reported as
being used on the public roads in two
counties, the system is still in its in
fancy. In Arkansas, Florida, Louis
lana and Mississippi the system has
been more largely adopted. but in these
states only short-term convicts are
used, and in most Of the counties the
number so employed is small; conse-
quently the per capita expense is
large, which is also the case in Ala
bama. Hence, even in these states. the
custom has not yet been established
on satisfactory basis.
Classes of Convicts Employed.
Laws of the different states on this
subject usually specify that only able
bodied male convicts sentenced for
short terms are to be assigned to work
on the public roads. In the state of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY AND OPINION

NEWSPAPER pUBLICl TY AND OPINION
| Below are two quotations from the
editorial pages of two of lowa's lead
| ing newspapers:
The Des Moines Register and Lead
| er uses a great many soft words, but
| this is what its argument amounts to-:
| Senator Allison is old and sick-out
with him!-Sioux City Journal.
The Sioux City Journal uses a great
many soft words but this is what its
| arguments amount to: President
Roosevelt has been in long enough =
| out With him-Des Moines Register
and Leader.
1t is apparent that soft words some
times fall short of the Scriptural as
surance that such language turns;
away wrath. The quotations above be.
long better with the adage, soft words
butter no parsnips"-at the present
stage Of Iowa politics.
AS between President Roosevelt and
the Sioux City Journal great gulf
was digged along abost the time its
editor was candidate for governor.
No one denys the right Of that Journal
to espouse such causes and oppose
such men as it may see fit or eNpedien..
The Register and Leader is support
ing Governor Cummins for the senate
ment is that the senator has arrived at
the limit of the years wherein men
may be prominently useful. 1t is
Within its rights as a newspaper when
ii does this and the fact that it feels
that the senator should be replaced by
a more vigorous man is not bar to
such expressions of esteem as it may
see fit to apply to the man it opposes
for sixth term of six years.
The fact is the assumption that any
official, high or low, should be I'M
mune from sincere criticism is un-
called for on the part of any man or
newspaper. There is no reason why
men and newspapers should not speak
out fairly, print news fairly and fairly
discuss the records Of public men of
every degree. There is no reason why
President Roosevelt's policies and rec
ord should be absolved from plain
discussion, no reason why Governor
Cummins' public record should not be
a matter to be discussed in CONVERSE
ton or in print and no better reason
why Senator Allison's record should
not be reviewed. Men are to be judged
by what they have done and the best
pledge and promise to the future is the
performance of the past Past neglect.
commission. failure and present COM
are properly to be set down
in the column where they belong when
the balance of public officers is made
up This Is an inalienable right of
the represented. 1t Is also the prlVl-
lege and duty of the publicist. 1t does
not include Misrepresentation ana
abuse. 1t means simple, truthful dis
cuSSion OF men, polcleS anu fecoios'
Soft words always come easiest and
are mostly meaningless. They have
been so readily and often said and
written that they have come to be
looked upon as an official perquisite.
Kind words are of different character.
Honest sincere, plain speech is praise
or disapproval are different still and
best of all.
Let us get away from the erroneous
idea that it is necessary to be soft 1t
isn't. And let us get closer to the
truth that it is always right to speak
for our honest convictions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
Does Not Pay to Preach.

That from a financial standpoint it
does not pay to be a minister and that
even the hod carrier has something on
ministers when it comes to pay was
asserted before the Pittsburg Minis
terial union by the Rev. Joseph Coch-
rane of Philadelphia.
ministers are underpaid and the
scale of their pay and advancement in
the last ten years does not begin to
compare with the advances allowed the
average hod carrier" was one of tho
expressions used by the Philadelphia
visitor, and 1t was loudly applauded
by the ministers present.
The Rev. Mr.. Cochrane deplored the
fact that divinity was being eIimin-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

ncering problems. says the February
Popular Mechanics.
Instead of tunneling under the river
a trench is being dug by massive
clamshel dredge, at present operating
in AZ feet of water. The trench will
be As feet wide at the bottom. to ac-
commodate the twin steel tubes that
are sunk and bolted together as rap
idly as completed, and which will form
the tunnel proper AS the government
requires the top of the tunnel to be 30
feet below the surface Of the river II
is necessary to have a long reach to
get at the ground which is being re-
moved. The bottom of the trench is
65 feet below the surface of the river
The article is illustrated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
guaea- 3pp1hau 5llarshalltn1nr jn1uu February 1908

trict contest, if there is one. but it
could make things mighty interesting
if it did so.--lowa City Republican.
Dave. the very intimation that YOU
could make things mighty interesting
by taking part in the fight against Bob
Cousins will give some Cedar Rapids
people the shivers.
BY the way, Dave. who was that &C.
dar Rapids Republican who has had
all sorts of graft iii his day and still
is graftng?" His name. If made pub
lie. might disclose the reason why
he is so wrathy when 1T is even sug
gested that someone may oppose
Cousins at the primaries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

The church has one great mission
and when it faithfully fultils that mis-
sion it will never lack in interest and
power. The mission of the church is to
preach to mankind the whole counsel
of God. Preachers have got to stop
the timorous and hesitating way OF
announcing the truth We do not
need to apologize for the Bible. We
do not need to trim and pare till we
have cut out the miracles. the divin-
ity of Christ, the authenticity and in
spiration of the Bible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
WHAT BYERs INDUCED IN

(Sioux City Trbune)
"Byers INDUCES in personalities. Is
the common heading given by the
standpat press in referring to the at
torney generals recent notable trip to
Council Bluffs. 1T Is true that the at
torney general did get rather personal.
He stated that he had had a confer
attorney; that that official had ad-
mitted to him that he had received a
sum of money which the attorney gen
eral named, for acting in defense of
the saloon men at the time an effort
was made the past summer to have
them comply with the provisions of the
mulct law. condition of affairs Of
which the attorney general was already
advised before he went to Council
Bluffs, and he further stated that the
county attorney had pledged him his
word that If given another chance, he
would do his duty which he sWore he
would. do when he took the oath of
office Mr.. Byers informed his hearers
that he had gone to Council Bluffs
with the intention OF removing the
official from office. but that he was
willing to take him at his word and
give him one more chance, and he
urged the people before him to do the
same The closing of Council Bluffs
gambling houses followed the next
day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

with the minimum of movements A
doctors automobile has an invalid's
chair as part of the back; this chair
can be lifted right out with the per-
son seated in it, and carried wherever
desired A new invalids carriage does
not in the least resemble an ambu-
lance yet the patient rests on a cot
within and the whole side of the car
rage opens to permit the cots re-
y,,nva1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
HARD ON BOB.
lCarroll IIeraldl

Congressman Robert G. Cousins
Will have opposition for nomination
in the next primaries. a Republican
paper in that district deplores this
opposition To the brilliant congress
man For it says that in sixteen years
in office he has been unable to get
acquainted with more than fifteen
people in each county in the district.
Now he may have to hustle. and it will
distress him sorely TO mix with the
plain people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
WHERE is "NAT' HUBBARD?

Cedar Rapids Republican,
The Hon" John Cottrell, "the gem
tleman from Plymouth" who had the
affinity business during the last leg
islature, OF which he was a member.
is going to leave Iowa to seek rest
in other parts. He intends to desert
his wife and their children. But why
shouldn't the laWmaker be arrested
for wife desertion under the provis-
ions of one of the laws he helped to
enact? Other wife deserters are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Burt Monitor says THE fight
gives the voter the choice of two
things, viz: Governor Cummins,
whose record is fight for the peoples
rights and against corporations; or
Allison, who fights for the corporations
and to thunder with the people. Which
man, Mr.. Voter, appeals to your in
terestS?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

thrown into jaiis. especially if they
are poor, why should the honorable
man from Plymouth receive any bet
ter treatment? Here is a chance
for some one to show that the laws
are enforced impartially. at least in
iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
New Devices for Invalid.

! The February Popular Mechanics
describes with illustrations several
lew devices intended to add comfort
II the existence of invalids. A new
hair has every part adjustable, so
hat position may be changed readily
If persons may be lifted in and out
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
Topics Of the Times

b, MurphyS partner in his campaign
address in support of b. Murphy. cam
didate, says that During the last
twenty-five years Mr.. Murphy has rep
resented his county in republican state
conventions" which is only hal t the
truth. 1t has required the combined
| energy of nearly half the Fifth con-
gressional district to prevent him rep
resenting the whole district in repub-
lican state conventions.
HELEN of the Des Moncs Tribune
took occasion to sheer at Governor
Larrabee recently and the ubiquitous
Webster City Freeman Tribune goes
back to the files of a Webster city pa
per formerly owned and edited by
HELEN in which this editor said: TO
parade such a man as mere cor
poration tail twister. often done for
political advantages and advance
ments is to belittle him. Mr.. 1iarra-
bee is unuuestionably the most be
!ieved-in and looked-up- to man in the
state one of whom it may be said as
ii was of another. that he has lived
without fear and without reproach.
And he is living the closing years OF
his life in this public esteem because
above all else he has never been Il
had any Interior private object or mo-
tive" Politics and misery. etc, are
responsible for many peculiar things
Is personal hatred Of the governor
sufficient justification for daily sneers
at the statewide primary law" Sioux
City Journal please answer.
1t is said that the railroads whose
managers are more interested in rail-
reading than in the stock market, are
quietly assuring Taft of their support
but that the octopus operators prefer
a democrat This is merely mani
festation of superior judgment.
When Cortelyou made a complete
defense of his course in the panic
crisis Senators Tillman and Cuberson
had to fan their anger with the typo
graphical appearance Of the document
in order to cover up the true import of
its contents.
The Washington representative or
the great Minneapolis Journal, writes
that Some of the railroad looters be-
longing to the second group are also
shouting for Taft. This. however, Is
a sporadic business due to local con-
ditions. In some Of the western states,
where these railroads ghouls must con-
troll local legislatures in order to re-
tain their grip and where the Roose-
Welt and Taft sentiment is dangerous
ly strong, they see no way for it but to
Join the local Taft boomers. In these
instances it has been learned that there
is systematic effort to line up delega-
lions with a second choice preference
for Speaker Cannon. This has now
been uncovered in enough states to
make certain that it is meant to be
serious in case Taft is not nominated
on the first ballot
1t seems rather hard on Garst to
involve him in the senatorial issue
when it could be avoided by electing
some man to the senate whom the Ce-
iar Rapids Republican is not so sure
will die during GarstS administration
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
The Message of the Music.

The Message of the Music.
Drank l.. Stanton in Uncle Remus
Magazine for February
What's that the fiddle's sayin' which
the others never hear
Somethin' that's a-hoverin' betwiXt q
smile an tear!-.
Somethin' of the past time--the shad-
ow an the beam,
An i hear it for the last time in a
dream-a dream.
"The old lads are weary
Youth must have a chance;
Too Old to dance now
Too old to dance."
On merry nights l hear it from by
chimney corner place:
Rosy cheeks aroun me, with the dim
pies in a race!
An / seem to feel their freshness-a
breath of golden curls,
As movin to the music they swing the
sweetheart girls.
"The old lads are lonesome
Youth must have chance;
Too old to dance now
Too old to dance!"
That's how the fiddle's singin' in a
tune to them unknown
A sort of farewell message to the heart
of nae alone!
you've reaped the youth time roses
you've had your day and time:
The twilight round you closes. where
bells of Menn'ry chimes
1.-THE old lads are lonesome
Youth must have chance;
Too old to dance now
Too old to dance!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

"The simple fact, known to all men
who know anything of politics is that
if Shaw were a candidate for presi-
dent on the republican ticket the
chances would be at least even that
Iowa would be carried by the demo-
Gratis, and that the republicans would
lose half or more of the COMPRESSION
al DISTRICTS declares the Brooklyn
Chronicle "The favorite son talk is
the merest nonsense"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
EXPRESS RATES IN IOWA.

dubuque Telegraph.)
In Difference to the expressed WISH
of the state railway commission th'
Iowa Manufacturers Association
thru Its secretary, ON Saturday las
filed with the commission a petition
for a rehearing on express rates.
Des Moines paper announces that fh'
hearing will be held on February IS
Thus is taken one bridge in the tigh
of this newspaper and the jobbers anI
shippers of the state for equitable
express rates. IT goes without saying
that the commissioners Will not agar
close the door In the face of shippers
representatives and swallow hook, bail
and line held out to them by the eX-
press companies.
In the same connection 1t Is an
nounced that the railroads have with
drawn their order effective on Fehru
arv | increasing the Joint minimum
local rate from % cents to 40 cents
The railroads had no authority to or
der such an increase without the con
sent of the state railroad commission
The commission 50 far as any one
knows. and so far as its records show
never had an increase in the minimum
charge under consideration. to say
nothing of ever having TO advance the
minimum. Certain 1t is that the rail-
roads did not order the increase on
their own motion and without aSsur-
ance that the commission would assent
to the increase. The conclusion Is IT.
reSistable that one or more of the COM
missioners. without ever having heard
from the shippers on the subject and
without having given the shippers a
hearing. told the railroads to go ahead
and Increase the charge. Then. fearing
the consequences. the commission as a
body failed to follow up the railroads
order with one of it's own.
So long as the minimum rate is 10
remain where 1t Is there is no great
need Of enquiring into the mystery en-
need of enquring into the mystery
concerning the railroads announce
ment and the authority for It, But this
much is evident. that the commission
has been taking its cue from the rail-
roads and that the searchlight OF pub
licity turned upon 1t has made It
afraid Eternal vigilance and fearless
criticism are as much the price Of good
government as eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

"The fellows who have been keep
ing an eye on Shaw have grown cross
eyed trying to locate him politically,
asserts the Manson Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

EASTERN OFFICE
R. J. Shannon, Manager, Brunswick
building, New York, n. 7.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01
TERMS:

One year by mail $500
By the month by mail ............ 40
Delivered by carrier by the month. so
Rural route edition per year. 400
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

Entered at the postoffice at Marshall
town as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

Iowa City Citizen (standpaD says:
zone thing may be said to Governor
Cummins' credit and that he has been
big enough man to always be good
friend Of Iowa state university"