Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-28
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lOplcS OF the Tunes
Two Iowans, or in fact three, took
very important part in securing 90
cent gas for the city of Washington,
D. c., which came yesterday by de-
cree of the board of directors of the
Washington Gas Light Company. Jud
Welliver, the irrepressible newspaper
reporter, started the fight for cheaper
gas in the Washington Times, on
which he is employed Frank Mum
sey. the owner of the Times, stood
back of him. Jud got John McVicar,
commissioner of Des Moines, to come
to Washington and discuss gas rates.
McVicar had secured cheaper gas for
Des Moines. Then Jud got Jim Good,
the congressman of 90 cent gas fame
at Cedar Rapids, to address the Dis
trict of Columbia commissioners, and
yesterday 90 cent gas was volunteered
for Washington. Many other large cit
les have so and SIS cent gas.
A whole loaf is better than a small
er one but it costs % per cent more
than it used to.
There isn't a single hired man in the
U. S. who isn't happier on his wages
than the sultan on his golden throne
with thousand wives. 1t seems that
common sympathy for misfortune
would forbid adding to the troubles Of
a man, with harem on his hands.
Why all this talk about the preach
ers' and the clerks salaries being
taxed? Give any clerk or preacher of
your acquaintance a $4,000 salary and
see if he isn't willing to take the in
come tax along with it.
There are two John D. Rocketel-
lers" says Miss Tarbell A DR.. Jeckyll
and Mr.. Hide?
The circus clowns have formed a
union. Possibly the village cut up and
some high school and college students
maybe eligible to honorary member
ship
When Senator Aldrieh talks to the
reporters about what he Is going to
do in revision downward, he puts a
bigger tax on the Imagination of the
public than he. wants to on that spe-
cial cloth which is protected by 500
per cent.
Other newspapers a month ago re-
ported that Sweden had granted the
suffrage to women; and the T.-R. also
was guilty of this error. 1t was Nor
en-. not Sweden. In Finland also, for
the last two years women have had
the right to vote.
Spring has sprung more kinds Of
weather during April than Billy sun
day does brands of expression in a
4 sermon. And that's going some.
Senator Dolliver makes a pretty fair
may he "wave."
The Manson Journal wants Web By
ers for governor of Iowa. The Journal
has excellent company in its desire
But how about Mr.. Byers?
The daylight saloon is not an 'im-
provement." It is simply nuisance
partially abated.
That Des Moines man who sold sky
rockets for airships and was indicted
for misuse of the mails should go into
politics where all kinds of fireworks are
palmed off as the real thing and their
| purveyors called regulars"
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can gives assurance that the mission
of Mr.. Sunday to Marshalltown "is
one of piety and not of politics" That
serves to increase concern for the
Marshalltown Times Republican peo-
pie. Sioux City Journal.
4 The T.-R. people would be happy ami
relieved to believe that they have been
indirectly the means to arouse real
concern for anything approximating
piety in the breast of the Sioux City
Journal.
A physician in central Iowa was
shot and seriously injured by his
worthless 24-year-old son in rage
at being repremanded by his father for
his bad hibits. Perhaps had the father
refused to permit the son to hang about
home like parasite until he was "a
and worthless it would have been bet
ter for both. The worst of kindness and
the falsest paternity is to keep a young
man in idleness. 1t is the path to the
prison and the insane asylum. Set
your son to work. It's the only safe
only way and it sometimes falls.
The difference between the farmer of
today and of thirty years ago is the
difference between the old A drag and
the four horse harrow; between the old
hand rake and reaper and the modern
harvester; between the stable made of
a few poles and strawpile and the
red barn that takes in all out doors
between a hazel splitter and the four
square bulk Of a thoroughbred porker: