Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-24
Outside Point of View


current events are very pessimistlc
concerning the future of Cuba. One
correspondent writes that at the first
meeting of Cuba's congress bills es-
tablishing cockhghting and a national
lottery will be among the first to be
Introduces. The liberal party, which
has an overwhelming majority in the
senate and the house, Is said to favor
q lottery, and Its members are openly
announcing that a bill providing for
cockfightng will be one of the first
measures to be introduced. The party
also favors a liberal educational pro-
gram, q law providing for the arbi-
tratlon of disputes between capital and
labor and the appointment of COM
mission to revise the tariff.
That part of the above concerning
cockfghting is almost Il sure sign they
are not capable of governing them
selves Why can not the Cubans take
up some innocent sport, such as foot
ball and make 1t Il national game, and
when they establish their West Point,
have hazing as practiced on the Hud-
son a part of the national military
education of Cuba; and a legaliZed
lottery in Cuba in 1909? Let them send
a committee "out west here in the
United States, and learn how We man
age such things when we have "a land
drawing
Some of those good brothers that
failed to vote for Taft beause he is a
Unitarian, therefore not a christian.
should read this from one of his late
speeches. After he had described the
Endorsement of Y. M. c. A. work on
the Isthmus of Panama, where four
great clubs are running, each under
the direction of an experienced Y. NJ.
c. A. secretary, paid by the govern
ment, where ten or dozen ministers
are also employed by the government.
with plan indorsed to establish two
or three more clubs, Mr.. Taft re-
marked:
1T is possible we will be charged
with having flched that money from
the public treasury. But if we have we
have accomplished a good work with
it. 1 think also the expenditure could
be defended on strictly legal grounds.
We have entered the Isthmus of Pan
anna and introduced there some $4,000
souls. Unless we take especial pains
to have their morality looked after,
unless we furnish ministers, churches
and christian clubs, we are going to
have such a saturnalia of evils, such
decentralization that we will never build
the canal. Hence. If we are to be i'm
peached for spending that money it
will be in q good cause"
AS a world writer perhaps no one
made has a greater reputation than
William T.. Stead He has thrown him
self into the society Of public men the
world over and writes up his intervieW
with the czar of Russia or the Ger
man emperor as matter of his every
day work. And his editorial utterances
in the London Review of Reviews are
frequently quoted as those of weight
has in his bonnet" Here's a special ca
BILE dispatch to the New York Sun:
London Jan. 16.-"New and wonder
full letters are reaching me almost
daily from my boy Willie, who died a
year ago." said William T. Stead, the
veteran editor, today. Mr. Stead
seemed in perfect health, talked ra-
tionally and looked happy.
II have no time now" he continued,
"to tell you everything, as I will leave
London for the seashore in half an
hour, but in the near future ] will
show you some of Whites letters. They
were written by my own passive right
hand to which moves absolutely auto
matically. l exercise no will power in
the matter either to hold the pen or
to move it.
"Willies letters are simply splendid.
They are exactly like him and full of
his characteristic spirit. He talks with
me at great length and tells me ev-
erything he sees, how he feels and
what his hopes are respecting myself
and other members of the family. He
says that the spirit world is quite as
anxious to establish communication
with this world as we are with it.
'F'or many years have known that
spirit communications We're reality.
1 declared my faith to this effect at d
time when l knew that the assertion
would injure me in all my worldly re-