Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES
'Here we have been milking our
own COW for fifty years and we didn't
know we We're doing anything great"
complains the Waverly Independent.
"And up to the hour of going to press
no one has sent out Special about
our remarkable performance. And why
shouldn't the governor of the great
dairy state of Iowa milk his own COW
If he is so when the man thenhnhhhm
if he feels so inclined? Society folks
in Des Moines and turnout Iowa have
been shocked at the discovery that
Governor Carroll keeps a COW and
milks her hinself!' o, bosh!"
iowa is not looking for a sensation
at Mitchellville," says the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette, referring to the charges
against Superintendent Fitzgerald.
''The chances are that if anything had
been wrong the board of control would
have discovered it before this; and
the members of the board do not APP
pear to be worried lest a scandal be
unearthed."
THE husbands of the state have a
right to protection from the highest
official in the state in the way of ex-
ample. ant least. If the governor milks
his own COW he is quite likely guilty
of moving the lawn. beating the car
pets, building the kitchen fire, work.
ing in the garden, washing windows
and doing divers sundry other things
which the women should be compelled
to do objects the Manson Democrat.
1T is suspected, also, that he winds
the clock and puts the cat out every
night. If so, he is going too far. AS a
politician and a statesman he should
spend more of his time among the
bunch and leave the chores to his wife
or some kid
The Newton Herald approves Hon.
\. E. Kendalls bill prohibiting the is
suing of a government license for the
sale of liquor in states in which the
state law prohibits its sale, and be-
lieves it is one which should pass.
LAS the case stands, Senator DOLL
yer is behaving in such manner of
responsibility that time should be af-
loi Qcu nm W MOIh OUT HIS SdINdIlOn
with fear and trembling, understand
ing that the record he made in the pri-
mary campaign of last year carries
with it presumption of weak convic-
ton in behalf of public benefits" says
the Sioux City Journal.
Perhaps after a few of our frisky
bigamists and wife desertars have
spent year in the penitentiary," says
the Des Mones Capital, they will
come to the conclusion that while it
may be all right to get gay it does
not pay to get too gay"
IF Roosevelt was in the White House
we will bet an old shoe that both con-
gress and the people would know
where he stood on the tariff question"
exclaims the Britt News.
To the Mason City Times at would
seem that the Milwaukee road should
be satisfied with their increased earn
ings since the cent fare went into
effect, and the same ought to be true
of other roads in the state. Is there
any reason for the cent fare being
changed in this state? There are
other ways some of the roads of the
state should show an increase from
the 2-cent fare. Passenger service i'm
provements have not been so extern
sive since its inception"
The Harlan American would Like
to see Mr.. Byers stay where he is till
Governor Carroll has served his sec
ond term and then made governor for
two or three terms but if Mr.. Byers
wants to go to Washington he will
never have surer throw than in
1910.'