Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-20

Olle reason that President Taft is
experiencing so much seeming unpop-
ularity is because he is a poor ad-
vertiser.-Des Moines Capital.
Try another solicitor on him, LATE
If the Cedar Rapids Republican is to
be credited the police force of tina.
city must be credited with activity at
least when they run down college
boys. There are cities in Iowa pos
sessed of policemen whose plethoric
and pursy waist lines effectively prec-
tude activity except at the risk of
apoplexy and who. in pursuit of a
lively Youth, would look like a trac-
ton engine chasing the fast mail.
With the prediction fun going on
in New York and some other places,
Iowa feels like the boy who has been
dropped from the nine and is watch
ing the game thru a knothole.
The suggestion that some of the
western states with arid lands should
help themselves in the matter of irri-
cation is a sensible and timely one.
There is a disposition to lean on a
"paternar' government while acting
like stepson when it comes to fed
eral interference that does not come
with a cookie in it's hand.
A good many people are unable to
understand why a federal employe
who has been protected in his posi-
ton and paid wages should be pen
stoned and the other man who has
had to fight to keep his job and take
chances on his pay should look after
| himself when he has come to the
| jumping off place
Some men can not see any reason
for the existence of a newspaper which
does not consult them as to it's opin-
ions. They imagine that every line in
the ideal newspaper should be written
loss of such a subscriber usually bene-
fits the sheet. 1t gains two better men
Better put the sideboards on the
corncrib now.
The Iowa farmer is picking corn in
daylight and picking out an automo.
bile by lamp light And both are pleas
ing occupations this year. Automobile
prices are not higher than corn prices
A man may be true blue without
feeling and looking that way.
Land in Holland sells at from $500
to $4,000 an acre and rents at from
$50 to 500 an acre. The dairy ant
intensive farming does it. Now just i'm.
agine Iowa when your great grand.
children get going!
If the process of party excommuni.
cation keeps on proceeding. the siou,
City Journal and the Burlingto,
Hawkeye will hang as the last leave!
on the tree of factionalism.
The automobile stands bright an,
new at the end of the potato row.
Now that the government has ap
propriated s135 to buy meat for cat
kept about the postal department. w,
may expect the u. S. Feline Associa
ton and loud and agonizing miaulin,
for an increase to 5000
The ancient and honorable organiza
ton of conservatives" sounds like
democratic platform Their main bus
mess seems to be to "denounce" every
thing progressive in republicanism an,
after trailing along behind for a few
years to claim they thought Of It first
With the rise in land values an,
!, consequent rise in rents, the tenan
farmer is looking toward the chea
lands and home of his own. TIL
renter is not as numerous nowaday
as when few years ago the land
lord might pick and choose. He ha
made little money and wants to pu
) 1t in farm. If this Keeps up anothe
ten years what is the landlord to do
Farm it himself?