Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-05
COMING HOME FROM WASHINGTON,

I The vote will be one and over today
what we have expected to see in tariff
I Legislation since it became evident that
| Senator Aldrich and his ilk had power
to construe the promises Of the party
ID their own inclination. When the
vote is over today We will have tariff
bill that should be vetoed by the pres
ident as it is likely to be by the voters,
and after the vote the congressman and
| senators will go home.
| Home. ay there's the rub. If one
might always stay in Washington and
breathe its atmosphere saturated with
contempt of the woody west and the "out-
lying states" all might be well and all
he happy yet. But congressman must
come home. And home coming this
year of all years is not entirely pleasant
to contemplate.
This is the vacation season, the ses-
sion has been strenuous and the strain
great, not the mental strain, for Sem
asor Aldrich has assumed most of that
would that he might assume respon-
sibllity also-but the strain of keeping
a promise TO the eye and breaking it
to the wardrobe the larder and the
necessities of life has been enervating
The congressman finds himself worn
and exhausted. Why not to the woods ??
he mas been been in the high grass
all summer hey for the woods and SOL
itude. He desires solitude-or is due TO
develop such craving shortly after he
gets home
And yet there is a prophetic and
fatal sound about the word. vacation.
The term of a congressman is all too
short Two years is narrow time
in which TO forget. The fact is that
they, the people, do not forget in thai
srace. They remember we'll over a 4
period Of twenty-four months. Were il
six years now. a senatorial term. mem
Dry might fade like the prints the
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hoi polloi. entitled by the constitution
and statutory privilege to vote. conclude
to grant an indefinite vacation Hot.
yes, il is hot That is why the con-
gresham sweats SO.
However there are congressman who
find the August weather in the climate
of Iowa pleasant and perking. They
are coming home to linger at the sta
ton and along the street on their way
iup town. They are not disinclined 70
meet Farmer Heavyweight and the gen.
crafty of their constituents Solitude
Is not in their thought Instead OF
/ stunning mankind they find delight in
Iowa are looking forward with extreme
/ pleasure to hear the porter say Dos
! NoinesT--or Fl. Dodge"-"in half an
houah sab" Under such circumstances
( ii is q rare pleasure to come home The
deep woods and the refuge of the
anchorite are far. far from their minds
lends diminution TO the view. A husky
farmer, common merchandiser and an
ordinary citizen look mighty small. The
spy glass is turned little end west.
When one leaves Washington and turns
his SPY glass end for end midwest
ern farmer looms upon the lens as the
Brobdinag before the eyes Of CULVER.
The change is astonishing and shock
ing as we'll as confusing. All is changed.
/ Relationships have been turned upside
down. Where but one short day ago
the world was mine it is now his.
That is why the heat affects the con-
gresham and why he longs for a lodge
in some wilderness until he can get
back to Washington. All. Get back
to Washington" That's what makes
him sweat
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