Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-19


may also be observed that few of
them die.
IOWA 0P!NlUNS AND NOTES.
"'A woman scorned,"- is a hard
proposition to deal with, and that is
after defeating those equal suffrage
amendments with scant courtesy" as
serts the Sioux City Tribune.
"When the other penitentiary in
mates resent his, Incarceration in the
same institution, Junllin can see what
a low lived brute he really is" says
the Des Moines Capital.
Noting the controversy between
Secretary Wilson and the millers on
the bleached flour measure, the Sioux
City Journal says: The taste for
white bread has been acquired. Be
fore the bleaching process was invent
ed the bread that mother used to
make was not of the lily white de-
scription. But it was mighty good.
and nobody thought of turning UP his
"The gist of the whole matter is
that prohibition prohibits in commun-
tiles where public sentiment favors it;
but if that sentiment be against it
there will be no enforcement" argues
the Baxter New Era, and continues:
Better by far attempt to enforce the
laws we now have than to fly to 9TH
err ills we know not of. However, it
is a social question hard to dispose
Aof."
The Fairfield Ledger sententiously
observes "The Thirty-third general as
sembly is to be called with one. itep
to date-it has killed the reform
school bill.''
congress didn't pass the parcels
post bill, but it will do so one of these
days." says the Fairfield Ledger. '"The
country merchant who is protesting
against such law should get in prac-
tice against such day by telling the
people what he has to sell in newspa-
per and catalog, as the mail order
people do
The way the Manson Journal argues
the case: "a man becomes licentious
brute. He ffaunts his vice in the face
of the entire community. The COM
munity patronizes the man, and he
saws he is INDICATED. Is this not the
right view of the situation? When you
patronize vice, you encourage vice.
and when you have done this, you
have become a silent partner in the
SIM" IA
The Manson Democrat says: The
way the Iowa legislature is acting on
the liquor question is enough to give
the fellow who likes his teddy palpi-
tation Of the heart In many cases the
wine bibbers don't know whether to
swear off entirely or lay in a supply
for the balance Of their lives"
The Burlington Gazette wants to
know "How in Sam Hill do the wise
men at Des Moines expect the poor
saloonkeeper to observe all the laws
they have inflicted upon him during
the limited hours the mulct law per-
mits him to do business?"
"Glorious Tom Reed Is indicated
once more. The house of representa-
tives will continue to do business" ex-
claims the Nevada Representative.
"There is just one good thing about
constitutional prohibition in Iowa. 1t
is dead" solemnly announces the
Keokuk Gate City,
The Waterloo Times-Tribune sar-
castically AYERS that 'oThis criticism
of Senator Cummins, for wearing ey-
ening clothes, is bosh, if, indeed, it is
not tbadinage. The criticism comes
from people who think they are
dressed up when they have tooth
brushes sticking out of their vest
pockets
In the opinion of the Council Bluffs
Nanpareil "By the time the Iowa leg
islature gets thru with it, the liquor
traffic in this state win be put in a
straight jacket"
The Mason City Globe Gazette VEN
lures the assertion that Governor
Carroll is not the only individual in
the state who has formed the opin-
ion that the state board of pharmacy
is bad medicine"
Speaking of the reelection of Can
non the Muscatine Journal says: "The
insurgents mad victory within their
grasp, a complete and thorough VIC
tory, and lost it, thru the desertion
of a small band of their democratic
allies. Perhaps it is just as Well.
.sWhen again this struggle comes
to the fore, let it be hoped that the
forces which demand a real revision
of the rules can control the repub-
lican caucus and make the fight a
republican fight as it should be-
These $50 Dinners.
"Dinners at $50 a plate are as COM
mon in New York as SIS dinners are in
London and Paris" said a chef. "Our
ridiculously extravagant dinners are no
better than the cheaper foreign ones.
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