Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
ACTION TAKEN BY NON-PoLlT.
,cAt ASSOCIATIONS IN IONA
SIGNIFICANT.
MEAT PRODUCERS DEMAND
STRONGER COMMERCE LAW
Favor Roosevelt's Plan Rather Than
Wokershams-Park and Forestry
Commission on Record as Favorins
conservation-Thom Case Prom
ises to Become Famous.
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, Dec. 1.-THE action |
taken by certain bodies which met in
Des Moines the past week would in
dictate that insurgency" is still ramp
ant and that it crops out on almos.
any occasion without anybody being
responsible therefor. The Corn Belt
Meat Producers took action which
shows where they stand on
various matters. In the first
place, tho to them that was
small matter, they decided
against a ship subsidy. They probably
would not all agree on that. But they
did take g. stand in regard to certain
national policies which showea that
they are alive to their own interests.
They want amendment of the inter-
ate commerce law, but they want it
quite different from that wa'cn las
been suggested by the lawyers of
President Taft's cabinet and ~ some
others. They want a Strengthening
rather than a weakening of the inter-
state commerce law They would have
the law fixed the way that President
Roosevelt recommended and before the
representatives of the interests COM
| promised out of the bill its vitality.
They want no additional court. They
Lrefer that the orders of the commits
IN go into effect at once. This is TAX
ing hold of big question as if these
shippers really knew what they want.
The park ana forestry commission
also put itself on record as on the
side of the eX-president in the con-
.roversy over conservation of forests.
This is a subject which will not very
soon be closed and which will come up
for congressional investigation. Inso-
far as Iowa has made study Of the
question, Iowa Is on the side Of the
radical conser alton policy.
AS a matter Of fact there was very
little po.itcs ta',~ed in the various
meetings here the past week-t,'at Is
., litcs as It relates TO party soil 'arl-
ty" and such things, but great 1-al
. of discussion of issues regardless of the
effect upol his or that party.
There was one place, however, where
no politics was permitted TO creep ir
and that was al the meeting Of tn.
state farc ers' institute, where was Sc
! ected the new members of the state
d board of ayr al ur+ This boari ma
a ways b..n free from any sus3cio'
OF political bias and it is eviden. tia
the policy is 10 be continued riSh
i along.
Among the list of achievements o
the Des Moines boosters comnitte
4 there was no mention made of tn
b Maytag Mason Automobile Compan
and the negotiations in connectio
8 herewith The company will emplo
z about 900 men in Waterloo and leav
4 about fifty in charge in Des Moines.
a is stated that the terms desired by tn
company might easily have been me
81 here and it would have remained BIT
J: the company was permitted to go an
"a there are a number in Des Moines VIII
q think it was an opportunity lost.
a
4 The Charles Thomas case come
q again before the United States court
= an effort to secure freedom for him.
q is not too much to state that opinio
- as to the guilt of Thomas in the ma
. ter of the famous death of Mabel Sec
great many people believe that Thorn;
was victim because of the unusual
large reward which was offered fl
conviction. But in case Thomas wi,
in the federal court and it is decide
that the Iowa statutes are in contraver
ton of the federal constitution it W
become a celebrated case in legal al
nails Charles w. Lyons, assistant a
torney general, will represent the sta
in UNFOLDING the state laws
A good reason given why Charl
Escher, Jr.. of Shelby county, w
given a place on the state board
agriculture, was in recognition of t
6 fact that the breeders of live stock
Shelby county are better organic
than perhaps in any county of
I state. They have the Shelby Cour
4 Fine Stock Exchange, they maintain
sale pavilion, publish a county dire
tory OF members and breeders and Sc
a dozen carloads of cattle each We
to the state fair. The firm with viii
Mr.. Fischer is connected has import
more Angus cattle than any other
America Mr.. Fischer was not can
date and was notified by telephone
his election, after which he came
Des Moines to attend the board me
ing.
County Attorney DeGraff, of t
4 county, has started a movement,
suggested a movement which Is Xix
to be heard from again. He has cal
attention to the fact that there is or
need of revision of the code of Io
- in the matter of the limit of senten
@<a for various crimes. For instance,
10A points out the discrepancy between
ut Id sentences for larceny and for robbie
% and while the latter involves poss
!, taking of life in many cases the per
.1l6 ty Is lighter than for the former.
in regard to quite a number of OF
- offenses it is found in actual prac
that very great inequalities exist
V the courts are powerless to remedy
same The parole board can do onl
limited amount of evening up of tt
various sentences, and there is neet
some new legislation on this line.
Local Notes from Arlington.
Special to Times Republican.
lnCc Arlington, Dec. d1.-Mrs. Scha