Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-04
A POOR GUESS.
Huntington Hlawkeye.1

A Des Moines newspaperman mas
discovered that the young men of Iowa
are leaving the state because we nave
too much politics. He finds that the
young men tire of the eternal turmoil
and want to settle down to something
else. That man must have been born
in Des Moines, must have spent his
whole life there and must never have
been a young man. He evidently be-
lieves that the conditions which he
thinks that he observes in Des Moines
rule the whole state. The fact is, that
the great majority of the people of
Iowa are not disturbed with, by or over
politics. Not in many years have they
been stirred nightly by the call of the
different party leaders. And then, the
idea that the young men grew weary
of that kind of strife, if we really had
such strife The young fellows turn
out and do the work in campaign.
and just as it was the men under
twenty-five who shouldered the mus
kets and fought the battles of this
country, so it is the men under twenty
five who shoulder torch and drill ana
tramp all night. and sing campaign
songs and cheer themselves hoarse 1or
a candidate whom they have never
seen. The young man can not get too
much politics. He revels in 1t. He
still has his ideals, and it means much
more to him than it does to the older
man whose thatch is growing sparse,
and who sometimes is a director of
campaign and at others is denouncing
nolitics because it interferes with bust
ness.
| To be sure, the young men and the
Young women are leaving Iowa in large
numbers. They always will. But that
| is no unusual experience. Young men
and Young women everywhere leave
home to see what lies beyond the hor-
4 lion and to try their luck in some other
section of the country and to test then
strength and their skill in other towns
! If the young men of some of the south
ern states, of New York. Pennsylvania
and Ohio had remained at home. there
would have been no Iowa. or 1t wouif
have been a snail like growth instead
of the very rapid DEVELOPMENT wnlci
the state enjoyed during its earle
years. In the old world it was Gus
tornary that the young man who hat
learned his trade or calling went on
on the .Wanderchaft' to see VIVA
Nigh. be learned in other lands. Som
came back and established themselve
in their home towns. others locate'
elsewhere, but it was deemed the neces
sary part of ones education and train
ing. And some of that old eountr'
custom may have been perpetuated il
this country. perhaps unwhtingly.
OF course young men are leavln
Iowa. and young women also. But m
Same thing will be found to be the rul
in all OF the older states. and there ]
no reed of complaint until we diseove
that the ratio is greater in Iowa tina
in other states. And where young PEG
nile from Iowa are going into othe
stase and making good so young PEG
ple from the east and from other sec
tions come into Iowa and like 1t her'
i and make good here.
And even if it were true that IN
: Young people are leaving Iowa !
f alarming numbers, it would be simpi
, ridiculous to assume that this were du
4 To political turmoil in a state wher
5 politics is almost gone out OF fashlon