Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-23


PLANTATION outside the political Influence
as exerted one way and another by the
liquor interests will be read with in.
terest
A new Dreadnaught costs from ten
million to fifteen million dollars. A stee!
-grandstand costs 100000. And good
roads cost nothing-because we don't
build them.
Henry Clay, Webster and Washing
ton, may have been greater orators
than Teddy but none of them spoke
oftener or longer or more plainly than
he. So far as Aldrdch is concerned the
less said the better.
Tillman went to the White House to
see a gentleman" When Senator Till
man wants to see a gentleman he goes
away from home, naturally.
The old question of what Is whisky
is about to be revived by the fight on
the label. Well, whisky is the sort OF
thing that makes cents look like a
IS bill at night and makes a man look
like 80 cents the next morning at
breakfast. AS to the brand, 1t is all
alike after the first drink.-Atlanta
Journal.
Travelling men will find tale to
their taste in the story 'sThe Old Plant
ers." by Thomas Nelson Page in the
May Century. Outside of 'Meh Lady,"
it is doubtful if Page ever wrote any,
story of the old Planters Hotel and the
"Cunnel."
Roosevelt landed upon African soil
Wednesday evening and found 1t very
wet, according to the dispatches
Doubtless he will manage to keep his
powder dry, however.
1t begins to look as tho congress
would adjourn before Illinois succeeds
in electing a senator to that body
Why doesn't some enterprising spec
ulator attempt to corner the ice that is
gorging the Niagara river?
The young Turks seem disposed to
put the sultan on his good behavior
and let him suit little longer.
BY the way, what has become of
Senior Castro?
Possibly the thought of Abdul Ham.
Ids having to leave such a numerous
better half caused the opposition to
relent at the last moment.
III. e. Earl, head Of the Michigan
state highway commission and an ac-
knowledged road expert declares Iowa
has the worst roads in proportion to it's
wealth of any state in the union. How
long is the proud Hawkeye state go
ing to rest under this imputation?
One thing can be said of Iowa, as an
offset to the statement of Road Expert
Earl, of Michigan, that "the state is
wallowing in mud" Right along those
miry roads and on both sides of it, for
interminable lengths, lies the richest,
most productive farm land the sun
shines on in any state. But the roads
should be better, all the same and ag-
itation will continue until they are
better.
1t must be conceded that the baker
has the same right to advance prices
when it cost him more to put meat
upon the block.
While Senator Aldrich leads a fight
for tariff protection for wood pulp and
lumber imported from Canada reports
of earnings from the International Pa
per Company, the print paper trust,
show that print paper costs less to pro-
duce in the United States than in Can
ada This saving, however, is lost be-
fore it reaches the consumer.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
"The legislatures most indefensible
SIdAu StdIiu pay was Liz dppIopIld-
ton for the Des Moines fair" declares
the Dubuque Times-J ournal.
"The woman who loaned strange
fortune-teller 1927 is not altogether a
loser. She will win the leather medal
for being the easiest mark in town."
the Des Moiiles Capital assures.
ut is said that Maybray's attorney
has had a five hours conference with
his client. Nobody but a lawyer would
take chances with Maybray for that
length of time" assures the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
from the amount of dust that is
being stirred up one gathers that the
Iowa supreme court has not cleaned
house for several years. remarks the
Sioux City Journal
The Waterloo Times-Tribune con-
tends that "any fellow who will hab-
itually wear a red fez ought to get the
worst of it."
"The people never will believe any
thing else that Governor Haskell did
things in connection with the Musko-