Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
Topics of the Times

| The Bows Advocate has purchased {
| Mergenthaler linotype Junior and will
no doubt improve proportionately. The
| Advocate has an excellent field anG
| needed the machine.
Secretary Wilson says i1one of the
serums for preventing hog cholera are
good. Some day some lucky fellow
Will discover a sure preventative, and
he will be fixed for life.--s;heldon Sun
So will the hogs.
Some men who owe everything to
their wives kick like mules when their
wives ask for $40 payment on ac-
count
Adlai e. Stevenson has become a
historical incident.
The country could save his salary by
abolishing the office of vic. president;
generally the secretary Of state is
much better fitted to assume president
al duties than the heir apparent Roose-
Welt was an accident In mere than his
succession. He CHANGED to be big man
in a minor position.
1t. Is now more apparent than ever
that a s29,OO0,000 fine is worth litlgat-
ing.
IF DIR NeWnnn IN ,v,1,,
he should be retired as secretary OF the
Iowa senate he should be reminded
that when a man has had i, seven ses-
sions it is time to let go i'm favor of
someone else.
President Roosevelt must have be-
lieved Welliver's story that Walter l.
Smiths name for speaker was being
used in the interest of Joe Cannon.
If we had several hundred millions
deposited in postal savings banks and
re-deposited in New York banks at 2
per cent interest 1t would make fat
long time loan to Wall street operat-
ors for savings deposits are seldom
called.
Could the fact that two thieves have
been found in congress by plain clothes
men have anything to do with this
congressional antipathy toward the
species?
We will now listen to the grafton of
the fly upon the wagon wheel when
Judge Smith gives his opinion Of
Roosevelt.
When Billy Sunday comes to town he
will probably offer to build a railroad
from Marshalltown to Grundy Center.
II the people of this city will give him
the money that passes over The bars of
our twenty-five saloons in one year
and Billy can produce the figures to
prove a safe hit on the proposition.
One sometimes wonders whether 1t
is Taft's friends or the advertising
of the Commercial National
bank who is pushing George Roberts
for cabinet place.
Why is 1t that every legislator will
show up at Dess Moines with some
queer idea for bill and not one of
them grasp a reform which everybody
wants such as repeal of the tax on
monies and credits?
Nebraska's legislature wants to try
on a bank deposit guarantee law. If it's
law makers are wise enough to provide
for rigid qualification before the bank
can be guaranteed or will compel banks
to organize by groups into voluntary
guarantee associations the guarantee
law will beat the postal savings bank
scheme.
Marshalltown Improvement notices
occupy as much space in the daily
press of Iowa as Waterloo rotices did
a few years ago or as Des AToines no.
tees do now.
BY absorbing the mailing list of the
Chelsea Independent and taking on the
detailed news of the Chelsea locality
the Tama Herald bids fair to become
the big paper in a small place. There
are few such notable papers as the
News in Iowa and yet it is
possible for the Tama Herald and
many others to enlarge their field,
deliver the news and build circulation
to tha 4 600 and 5000 mark
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.