Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-14
Topics of the Times

A column of reflection by LATE
Young on the proposition that it pays
to be a democrat is the latest One
might suppose that the colonel had
been very much out of pocketbook by
being republican.
The income tax proposition has been
before the legislatures of Alabama and
Georgia, and will next make its ap-
pearance in Illinois. Watch Spring.
field water at the mouth.
The man who shot Sutton may have
been the same one that hit Billy Pat
terson for all the evidence in the case
shows.
The announcement that Thaw. if re-
leased, would engage in literary pur-
suits, was made prematurely. The
court decides that he is still insane.
But, of course, if Uncle Joe wants a
$4,000 automobile, he has the where
withal to get it. and, what's more-in-
finitely more-the additional where
withal to maintain it.
The familiar statement again is
made that Wellman is about to set out
for the pole in his airship. Also is
coupled with it the equally familiar
statement that if the weather should
not be favorable at any time during
August, the trip will have to be given
up for this year. Wellman always
keeps one foot on the ground
OF Count Zeppelin, who recently I'M
derwent an operation for an abscess on
his neck, it is said in the press dis
patches that "the daring aeronaut has
| ing" Are we to understand from this
that walking is particularly difficult
feat or a singularly hazardous business
! for aeronauts?
Orville Wright has gone to Europe.
The hotation which he has in mind
will likely go better than that which
P. Morgan recently took to the same
market.
The democrats of New York state
are going to have meeting at Sara
| toga next month to take counsel look
ing to the betterment of their party S
condition in the state. The call is hus
so broad that there is no telling
| funeral.
The Cumnins Chicago interview is
/ having a wider circulation than any
thing since 1.-THE Message to Garcia"
To be up-to-date, policical machines
should have wings-not necessarily
white, of course.
Perhaps the immense enthusiasm
that marked the Cunmins and the Dol
liver receptions Joined to hot weather
and a few other things is responsible
for the temperature displayed in the
columns OF the esteemed Sioux City
Journal
The Sioux City Journal offers the
narrowing suggestion that at does not
matter much if the good roads move
ment drags."
If the president were to confine his
1900 mile trip entirely to the corn
states he would understand when he
went away what the middle west I'M
derstood him to say last fall in regard
to tariff revision
Well hasn't this section the impress
sion that the president is "we1
meaning man?" No doubt he meant
to do as he said he would do when he
was making the campaign. But AID
rich and the special interests say he
didn't know what he was talking about
Jim Hills purse Of $500 to be given
for the best grains and grasses GROVE
along his railway lines is the act of 8
shrewd man and not of a philan-
thropist. Philanthropy doesn't belong
with farming and railroading. The
farmer who wins will be able to take q
trip in a new automobile while Mr.
HilPs freight cars will feel the result
ant from the purses 10, many years
Every farmer who completes will be q
center for the distribution of selected
seeds and a larger crop of wheat Of
better quality. Jim is casting bread
upon. the waters.
If subsidized horse breeding goes IL
Iowa one can see how number o.
jobs for some of the hangers on of tn.
old time regime may be provided.
From Clinton to Sioux City the corr
fields prophesy cheaper corn and low.
er prices for hogs. Corn is bound t.
be plenty in Iowa this year.
The land lottery doesn't differ from
any other to the man who fails I.
draw.
4 They are talking OF retiring the tw,
dollar bill. Bankers it is said do no