Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
Outside Point of View.

! That the country. il it follows the
leadership of Roosevelt, is going to the
demnition bow-wows. is the general
/ opinion of the more conservative class
/ of eur citizens That Taft belongs to
and is in sympathy with the monied
class, is a quite general feeling among
/ the progressives. Our prohibition
friends sees no hope for the future. I'M
/ less the liquor interests are driven out
I Of business, and said interests are sure
! If the temperance element run things
we shall soon wish ourselves back to
! the days of the witch burners of New
I Eng land. The socialists see the rich
getting richer from the toll of the peo-
pie. with the capitalist fears a division
of this worlds accumulations Relig-
/ ouS people see the world becoming
materialistic and atheistic and point
to France as nation an awful ex-
ample, While free thinkers are sure
unless the power of the church is cur
tailed. it is only a shotr time before
church and state are one. and all civil
and religious liberty lost.
And the battle goes on. neither side
making any particular gain. measur-
ing the surface of the globe for results.
There's a reason for this. Neither
Cannon nor Cumrnins will rule or ruin
us. The pope of Rome never succeed
ed in silencing Pope" Bob Ingersoli,
and the latter's attacks on the religious
systems, made as little impression on
them. as the wad of boys pop gun
does on the side of the barn. Not to
carry the illustration further it can be
said neither extreme on any public
question ever becomes a strong ruling
factor in public. affairs. not because of
opposition from the other side. but be-
cause of the opposition inside the ranks
of the party
The republican party today is in this
condition And so is the dem ocratic
party The prohibition party. the So
cialists. the little left of the Peoples
party, are all not only fighting foes
without but foes within Any ordinary
| observer can notice such conditions
exist in the nation and state. Stop for
moment and look at the mix-up in
New York and in both OF the promi-
nent parties. Gaze over Iowa and see
prohibitionist leading the liquor in
terests on TO victory. or a standpatter
calling on the progressives to prevent
the democrats from carrying Iowa.
And such was the wisdom and un-
/ impotence in arranging these matters.
that out of all this turmoil these ex-
treme propositions and intentions,
comes the right thing. The mills of
the gods grind slowly" etc. It's big
game of compromise and both sides
must yield some things to gain others.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
The people fear the CORPORATIONS. but
the latter are beginning to have a
wholesome respect for the people. It's
pretty safe to join the don't worry
club" The end Of the world has been
conf1d entity expected and date set more
than once. but she still rolls. After all,
this world is nothing but big thresh-
ing machine with all OF the latest i'm
Iprovements The wheat goes and
nothing else goes into the sack and bin.
The chaff Is blown away, the straw rots
or is burned But the wheat becomes
bread and all of US are fed. And to
rem ember Rome was not built in a
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