Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07

understand precisely why he ought to
pay; sometimes he thinks 1t ought to
run gratis but even he dimly sees that
the attorney" and the ION business"
cause means something valuable. Mum
sey, as an expert in advertising knows
all about it. He is ready to come ask
ing hand out. And he dumps the
accumulated results of ten thousand
begging expeditions into a heap and
sorts out all kinds of valuable publicity
from his junk heap. The automobile
man gets his, Munsey gets his. 1t is al
together a very satisfactory division of
beggars' spoils.
San Antonio supports press bu-
reau. 1t is handled by an expert in the
blind baggage and brakebeam depart
ments of journalism" San Antonio
might be imagined on perusal of his
stuff to be the veritable hub and
center of the universe in a business
way, the decimal point of prosperity
and the point whence Adam located
the first homestead and started the
first successful farming operations.
The San Antonio press bureau reeks of
real estate The trail of the promoter
is over it all 1t is another handout
scheme. 1t approaches more nearly the
dignity of a confidence game than Mr..
Munsey's plan. It isn't such coarse
work, but il Is intended to get some
thing for nothing and does it.
Then comes a theosophist anxious to
knock another theosophst and get into
the papers as a leader in theosophy He
addresses the fathers and mothers and
all lovers of The home, that is he
hopes 70 address them to his own adj
vantage and the disadvantage of an
other long hair thru the medium of the
daily press. Someone spent money TO
get out an elaborate job of printing
and paid the postage. The begging
didn't begin until he got to the news
paper office. Now the average person
who takes a daily paper doesn't care
a whoop about theosophy or Annie
Besant or any of the outfit. If the
nasty stuff they tell on one another
We're run in the news columns the
news editor ought 10 be fired that
night The dog should be turned loose
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he walk and the kitchen maid should
be instructed TO scald them on sight
Let them keep TO their camp on the
outskirts and not beg for publicity
that belongs to the police court.
Six Others came with the mails this
morning begging or demanding hand
outs. They did not get them unless the
above may be so considered But they
do get them al too many doors or they
wouldn't keep up the gait. Some one
feeds these tramps. Why? What earth
" reason can be given for permitting
the vagrants and con men of the pub
Lefty field 10 grow fat on the earnings
Of labor and responsibility?
Some few come with an appearance
/ of legitimacy. The cllautauqua man
gets much that he doesn't pay for out
right. individuals get much that is
valuable but for T#hich 10 charge is 81
ought 10 be made. The circus man
with his sheaf of tickets finds favor
and gets favors in return for favors
But these are not ramps. They are not
' agran.s or con men. However in the
\ course Of a year the handout man par
example gets more than any of these
Isn't it time TO quit? Isn't it time for
the Iowa newspaper man, daily or
weekly, 10 shoe away the beggars who
deserve nothing and get much? Why
give some cool calculating publicity
shark space that would be refused 10
an advertiser unless ne had a con-
tract? Why not boot the assurance out
of the handout man?