Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-05
TIndEsREPUBLICAN, MARsHALLTowN, MARCH 1910

the cap "I' box look like hens nest
in Jauary. And even that may have
been fault of environment and COM
petition.
The ducks are on the wing
The grass is starting on the links:
Come on, there, o. you spring!
BY all accounts, the remonstrance
petitioners appear to be looking for
ward to a beautiful spring.
The Sioux City plan seems to bring
out candidates with facility equal to
the Des Moines plan.
1t would he far from astonishing
We're Secretary Wilson to leave the
cabinet. 1t was very we'll understood
by well informed 1owans that Presi-
dent Taft desired to change secretaries
at the beginning of his term and at
one time had concluded to replace Mr..
Wilson. The present imbroligio is not
unlikely TO bring about the change.
Perhaps it would have been better for
Tama Jims peace of mind had the
change been effected when it was con-
sidered, for Mr.. Wilson is an old man.
has served long and with distinction
and is entitled 70 rest.
on March and 9 the railroads of
Iowa will have to meet the coal oper-
ators of the state before the railroad
commission and explain why they haui
coal into the state from points OUTSIDE
for less than they charge Iowa coal
to the same points Most of the anti
railroad legislation in this state mas
been forced by the pig-headed rate
policies of the railroads themselves ana
it is time that inequalities were ad-
iusted without a fight. incidentally the
eyes of the public are on the railroad
commission and with a general desire
70. new deal it would be well for the
present membership to keep both ears
to the ground.
Congressman Jameson is quoted in a
Washington paper as saying that If ne
ever gets 100000 ahead he may want
to return 10 congress. 1t is TO jamie
sons credit that he at least doesn't
look upon a seat in congress as the
swiftest route to the possession OF
100000
anyway Congressman Jameson can
put in the rest of his life most delight
fully making their eyes pop out at
Shenan loah telling them about the big
doings al Washington, while l was in
congress-
Those ten-dollar hogs would look so
much better if we had more of EN-.
But then they wouldn't be ten-dollar
hogs, and that's the way it goes.
Roycroft Hubbard has taken up the
cause of woman suffrage. That's the
way with movements of that kind,
there's no way to keep buns from
swinging on for free ride.
Indianapolis is to have women on
the police force. We sould think the
step should have been come at gradu-
ally. with, say, Senator Beveridge as
a starter.
The income tax is misnamed. 1t
doesn't seem TO come in at all.
The Logan Observer tells about
Harrison county man who, as an lg-
norant foreign youth without knowl-
edge of the English language or OF
anything else much. began as farm
hand twenty-five years ago and now
sells his farm and has enough to be
comfortable on the rest of his days
That was all very well in its time, put
who wants to work twenty-five years
nowadays? If the Logan paper wants
to inspire the youth Of the land to eff
fort ii should trot out q, few examples
of men getting rich over night doing
nothing.
Perhaps out of the row between
Harvard and Cambridge over Har-
wards tax account, Harvard may be
inspired to add to its curriculum a
course in tax lodging.
The freedom of the city of London
has been accorded to Colonel Roose-
welt The city dads probably realized
! how useless it would be to resist.
! Seventy-six thousand farmers in
the United States own automobile.
! There will be more just as soon as the
manufacturers can turn out the ma
chimes
! Rockefeller's son is not unlike some
other rich mems sons in his undertake
ing 10 give away the old mans money.
The weekly reviews of what congress
is doing get shorter right along.
AT Pittsburg. a bank president, over
his vigorous protest, was made fore
man of a grand jury. There are quite
a number of bankers who would like
to have had their dealings with grand
! juries from that end OF the gun.
| This seems to be the open season for
members of congress to advocate an
! Increase III pay Ger rural letter carriers
It doesn't sound bad to the carriers
but what they really want is the in
crease, not the talk. Their horses eat
corn and oats, not words.