Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-26
rntrsHrPUB11oAN, MARsHArlTowN IOWA. AUGUST g. 1909

nastiness beyond question perhaps We
had best cut it out The public is not
insisting on daily doses OF benzoate.
The Gamer Is; and the Gamer Of spoil
ed stuff is especially insistent.
In the middle of this hot spell 1t
encourages Iowa to read that dry
farming has succeeded in raising good
corn out in western Kansas.
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When hogs are up to 1926 the Iowa
mortgage crawls into its hole and pulls
the hole In after it.
If there is anything in the
Washington gossip that Taft is
going after Cannon's hide Uncle
Joe is probably not enjoying
his vacation as we'll as might
be. The Taft fence would look good
with the Cannon hide hung over it. 1t
would make Teddy's elephant and
rhinoceros hides looked like sheepskins.
The postoffice is the fercest foe of
patriotism. There are generally so
many who want it and didn't get it
against the man who wanted and did
get It.
Bring on the fool who rocks the
aeroplane. He's next.
Pinchot's idea is that the man with
the emigrant wagon and six children
should have the call over the Spectator
with bank roll and an automobile.
SO
the haw tree. Gee!
It's just plain plane now, instead Of
aeroplane.
AS to dividing up the work of the
interstate commerce commission, the
circuit court at Chicago seems to have
taken the job of the presidents hands.
The benzoate Of soda dispute seems
to possess full portion Of the ele-
ment OF fermentation
Why is the interstate commerce
commission.
Judge Grosscups latest probably did
not surprise Judge Lands.
Fire insurance rates in Kansas are
to be cut ~ per cent on the arbitrary
order of the state superintendent OF
insurance, probably as humane
measure. Kansas, you know, is pro-
hsbition state.
If Hartman stole any railroads while
in Europe, he was too weak to carry
them home with him.
It Is only the financial capital of the
country that has been established at
Arden. The political capital remains
unchanged.
AS Des Moines bites into the state
fair crowd. it remembers that there
will be no session Of the legislature
the coming winter, and that makes it
doubly tough on the crowd.
Lafe Young says he is not for abol-
ishing the primary in Iowa. The coll
onel is gradually coming to more ac-
curate estimation OF his own limita-
lions. -
The president may talk tariff on his
coming tour, but there certainly Is
nothing in the subject matter of the
daily conference at Beverly to indicate
It.
Then, too, it now is possible for
Wellman to get back in time to super
intend the coming session OF congress.
If criminal should make his get
away in an air craft, how would the
detectives pick up his trail?
The 12-year-old boy who runs an
auto about the streets may never be as
big fool as his father, for he is like
ly to be killed on the way.
Inc Kansas kidnapping case Illus
trates what happens when two women
entertain feelings Of m otherly love to-
ward the same child. u ever we have
an irresistible force coming in contact
with an immovable body, here 1t is.
This part Of the universe is getting
about ready to c. Q. D. the rainmaker.
Also. there will be no need FOR a
Weluan relief expedition.
The hopeless side of this state fair is
that however much it may demonstrate
the need for new hog pavilions, grand
stands and pagodas. that need can't be
supplied for two years, there being no
session of the legislature until 1911.
Perhaps the legislature ought to meet
annually.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
It appears to the Des Moines Cap