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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Roosevelt, Cline Upon .Iin..y

fFecept upon precept, precept unon
piecep'' Inc upon line. line upon line
mere little and there a little.-Issi.h
xviii. TO- isaiah
ms is the retort cast at the pronhet
by the people who are weary o> tho
monotony of his everlasting nre.cbi,a
ana his eternal pious platitudes. He
had spoken to them words Of yv;sdorn
OF warning, commonplace words about
virtue. and they were weary hearing
ehem. Isaiah is not the only preacher
VINO has been charged with preaching
Ola sermons, and hashing up pio,,s
piatitudes to the people Paul was
ealeo a "ba bbler." a seed picker. a
oeaier in small wares, a trafficker in
tribes, religious baby talker.
In our day Roosevelt has the same
cynical criticism to endure. People
say. III he would only quit his preach
ing! Ihey complain that they have
heard all he has to say on ethics His
monotonous repetition of moral plati-
tudes begin to pail upon the people, we
are told. His talk about work. and
race suicide, and integrity and virtue
and the homely virtues of a thousand
years ago is WEAKNESS to the WICKED
and an abomination to the political
pirates
Nothing is needed in America TODAY
more than the telling in the ears OF
people who do not want to hear them
the bed rock truths of personal and
family and social life. We are obsessed
With passion for novelty. The truth
that saves, however, Is simple, monot-
onously simple, and sublime as it Is
simple. Let the preaching go on.
Platitudes. after all, have a mysterious
~ sledge-hammer power The career
of the thief and the gambler, the
drunkard, the bribe giver and the bride
taker, the embezzler, the traffcker in
the virtue Of others has nothing new
about it. BE sure your sin will find
you out" is an old pious platitude but
the newspapers are full of startling il
lustrations bearing upon it. He will
forgive your transgression" is an old
pious plathude, but men who today
discover it afresh are twice born men"
ard walk with their faces sunward and
skyward.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17

state rather than sacrifice his political
morality. Roosevelt is in the midst of
bitter fight in his state on a ques-
ton Of political deoency. There is this
difference Bryan seeks no fight, Roose-
welt hurries to the battle as a bride
groom to his wedding. Bryan. oriven
to choice, stays hitched to political
responsibility. Roosevelt seeks male
factors" and political immortality and
drags them out by the hair of the head
with a radiant happiness of pursuit
which delights While it amazes and
terrfies.
But both are large leaders, not alone
of parties but Of individuals. There is
deeper influence than of the party
leaders; they are captains of men.
They reiterate immortal platitudes
and live them Confidence is theirs
not by reason OF success but because of
character Mr. Bryan has been aud
is great American influence without
having been president; Roosevelt is
the first American of his time in spite
of having been president. Neither is
doing anything new Both. as Mr..
Roosevelt asserted of himself yester-
day, are simply attempting TO apply
the old and unvariable rules of COM
mon morality TO political conditions.
These men are only changing work"
If Roosevelt is Bryanizing, Bryan is
Rooseveltizing. The application of
common morality to representative
government is common ground 1t is
the first essential of any kind OF good
government. There can not be tool
much Of il The objection TO il is the
objection TO the Decalogue, that it linn
its the opportunity and circumscribes
the actions of the immoral
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
AN AMERICAN swlTzeRLANc2

Attention Is being called 10 the pro-
ductiveness of Switzerland. where the
nountaineers have developed splendid
breeds of cattle especially Of milk pro-
ducing animals and produce from a
rocky and forbidding soil agricultural
results Of an amazing character. Il Is
now proposed thru an exposition Of
Swiss products TO teach Americans
haw Abandoned eastern farms and the
rocky and mountainous sections Of the
United States may be made productive
and capable Of supporting population
The idea is a good one but its re-
suits Will not be noticeable for a gen
Grafton or two. We have no Swiss
peasantry this side Of Ellis Island The
rocks OF the United States will not,
blossom untn conditions force men TO
tear existence out OF the rocks as they
are doing in Switzerland There is no
class as YET in this country which IS
willing to see It's children herding
single COW 70 sparse patches Of grass
miles up a uountainside or is women
carrying home on their backs at night
a bundle of hay which is the result Of a
hard days toll. The Swiss peasants
are the creatures Of conditions which
have developed them. We have no
such conditions in this country and let
us hope that it viii be long before
they obtain here.
The American like sensible man
takes the lire Of least resistance. He
seeks the highest return for his toll
The switzer Anericanized. does not
seek the conditions he ran away from
SO long as American farms in the
highly productive areas may be divided
and subdivtded at prices however high
tho they furnish opportunity the
Switzer will be welcome 70 his rocks
and glaciers ard the stimulus Of star
walton.
Have the exposition by all means.
Perhaps it Will teach native Amer
leans somewhat OF the rnagnificence Of
their heritage and the necessity OF con-
serving IT,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
"eRfANIzING" HE PARRY

The accusation against Roosevelt Of
Organizing the republican party seems
to be partly true. Mr.. Roosevelt il
Organizing in the best sense of tn.
term.
Bryan represents the ideaiiisnl oss
democracy. He has been the leader
OF the party because he held to funda-
mental principles outside of party ana
partisan success. He brought futu
politics in the democracy something
which had ceased to be politics in that
party, portion, at least, of the ten
commandments and somewhat of the
responsibility which belongs in dele
gated power. Personally Mr. BRYAN
has represented in private lite the
cleanliness and conscience Of individ
ual high character He has not stood
for the things in party or politics
which degrade individuals and peoples
Mr.. Roosevelt is also a type. In the
republican party he represents ever
more than Bryan in the democracy be-
cause Roosevelt represents more power
today in the republican party thar
Bryan does in the other. There or.
other points of similarity between the
men. Bryan resigned leadership in his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts Of Opinions
"FaIIacy in Theology"

A man may be religious without be-
ing a scholar, but he can not be
scholar without being religious. 1t is
a fundamental fallacy that a theology
can be created unless the spirit Of
religion inspires or that either can en-
dure without an ecclesiastical organi-
cation. A church is a repository for
religion, a means of carrying out Gods
work in the world by the perfecting of
the individual, but as the spirit decays
its place is taken by the institution. In
periods Of great theological dissolution
like the present there is always q
slackening of ecclesiastical organiza-
ton; but it is not the distinctive mari,
of religious man that he stays away
from church. Men stay from church
either because their intelligence is Of
tended or because they receive no
pleasurable stimulation of their religi-
Gus sense-for the same reason that
sensible men do not go to a theater
which does not stimulate a feeling for
music or dramatic action. The true
explanation of private devotion and
public worship is that the artificial
creation of an emotion will bring about
the condition of mind from which that
emotion normally arises. Thus a per-
son may be convinced that God can
exist very well without the offering of
human praise and prayer; and yet If he
practice the repetition Of the Lords
prayer in a mechanical way as a device
against sleeplessness he is very liable
TO experience sensation of comfort.
The two little acts of alteration and
prayer might conceivably lead to fire.
quent attendance upon public worship,
where the sight of others under the in
1uence of religious emotion would pro-
duce its effect by contagion. Pro-
testanusm as means of ministering
TO this human need for religious OBJ
serVance has failed, and it's weakness
To-Day is due to the fact that its mi-.is-
trants are not entirely convinced that
they no longer retain any priestly
quality. and for lack of that conviction
'hey have not wholly developed the
quallty OF minister. Being uncertain
OF thelr vocation, they have jumped to
the conclusion that their business is
the propagation of ideas. That Is why
protestant churches are usually empty
gu II they were in possession OF
ldeas, 1t would not follow that men
mouio De drawn to them. That Is why
oa'1iolic churches are always full be-
cause they have no ideas to propaeate
but afford place of calm for the
senses retreat from the world of
lhought, an incentive to worship for
"hlcn the soul yearns, stimulus for
that religious emotion which suffuses
the whole being and translates the
"orio OF reality into the sphere or
iiias ma tlon. When all theological
stems nave been reduced to a condi
non OF nudity and fluX and continuous
lowing universal church will forum.
late itself and all men will he dra ~,
,n., =. LOT the sheer enjoyment of
losing themselves in the Infinite
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Pastor Declares Spirit Talked

That Prof. William James. the Ha.-
ward psychologist, who died a week ago
last Friday, has accomplished his ex-
pressed desire to communicate from
beyond the grave if he found it DOS
sible, is the amazing statement made
by Rev. DIR. Frederick A. wiggin of
Brookline pastor Of the Unity church,
and spiritualist with whom Professor
James had discussed this engrossing
question.
Whatever sceptics may think of the
occurrence, DR.. Virgins is convinced Of
the return of Professor James spirit
and the transfer of a communication
to DR.. Virgins subconsciousness. The
pastor. who has been attending a con-
vention of spiritualists at Madison, Me-
dc not learn the news until last Sun
day. He Immediately set about to get
in touch with thes pirit of the profess
sor, and dec. ares that during an hours
summoning of his control, the spirit
manifested itself.
Professor James frequently dis
cussed the meaning of psychic nantes
tations with me-" said DR.. Virgins
"and he approached the great question
with an open mind. I believe that he
never was a materialist and that he
was more inclined by nature to accept
certain physic phenomena than he was
ito reject them, tho he was too much
the logical scientific man to permit this
tendency Of his nature to affect his
decision. I recollect that he said to
me on several occasions that he hoped
to find out after death whether his
spirit could communicate with those of
US on this side and I was much inn
pressed when he said that he would put
a ncyohic den0nsfra fiOn NJ reaI 1s,orfh
above anything he had done in bril-
liant career on earth. was convinced
then that his spirit would come back.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
A LOGICAL VERDICT.

lhoiouS lily JCurHdlJ.
A. times said Colonel Roosevelt
al Pittsburg, the accused man gets
acquitted under circumstances that
make YOU feel not an increase of re-
spect for the man, but of disrespect for
the jury" The colonel mentioned no
names, but everybody understood he
was referring to the just recorded YER
dict of acquittal in the Browne trial.
AS matter of fact the jury that ac-
Quilted Browne is entitled to considera-
ton rather than sharp criticism. The
jury found Its verdict in strict accord
ance with the law and the instructions
of the court This does not mean
that the verdict carries ANYTHING re-
sembling vindication for Browne. 1t
means only that in the case under trial
the circumstances We're such that the
jury could not Justify verdict of
guilty.
Colonel Roosevelt. like the rest of us
who are interested in public affairs. has
read the whole story of the Illinois leg
islative graft, including the confession
of several members. The whole story
furnishes good ground for the conclus-
ion that crooked work was going on,
and that many persons We're concerned
in it. In the recent case against
Browne. however, he was accused of
direct connection with u single bribery
transaction, and he had 70 be tried on
that alone. The prosecution was un-
fortunate in having to rest its case al
most wholly on the testimony of wit
ness, whose lack of conscience had been
thoroughly demonstrated in all the
circumstances leading up 10 the prose-
cution. According 10 MS own confess
sion this witness accepted a bride in
the first place, then tried 10 blackmail
everybody he could on the strength Of
his knowledge. and then sold the story
of his wrongdoing for the highest cash
prize 1t would bring. The crediblity
Of this witness was irpeached in ev-
cry possible way, and even those who
stood to profit by his testimony could
not claim that he was other than an all
around reprobate.
When the jury found Brownies fate
resting in its hands the problem i'm
mediately resolved itself into the ques
ton whether Browne should be sent TO
the penitentiary on the virtually I'M
corroborated testimony of the thor
oughly discred!ted witness. The jur-
ors could not consider confessions re-
ferring to other transactions. They
could not give play TO their impressions
concerning the bribery scandal as a
whole. They had to confine them
selves 10 the one specific transaction
laid before them and to the evidence
submitted relating to that transaction.
And in that relation they simply could
not bring themselves to vote TO send
man TO the pententiary on the un-
corroborated testimony of a confessed
mercenary who appeared to stronger
disadvantage than any other single in
dividual connected with the whole
scandal. Il was a logical outcome.
however disappointing it may have
been to supporters Of good government.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Topics of the Times


90 y 50 40 ~ -'s ma ~
p2fts N'si' -' me '''i - mes
=
So
Differences y opinion are certain 70
exist. Note the Ballinger committee.
When the Payne tariff lacks defence
in Maine and Massachusetts perhaps
those western congressman and sena-
tors should have the sentence Of de-
capitation suspended instead Of their
patronage
FROST Or no lrost theres sure 20 De
d iiNeiE ,rade IN corn crip ma terlai THIS
fan corn At preseht prices Is TOO val
uaple 20 PIE up BACK OF the barn me
crop klIIer dlah accom- phsh ahytAlhg
ms summer
jim Hill never fails 70 talk about the
farmer and never quits thinking now
to raise freight rates on him.
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congress from the Danville district.
But Browne also goes back 70 the Ill
noise legislature. Nindication keeps
queer company.
From the days OF the Thackeray Let
ters Scribners Magazine mas been par :
ticularly fortunate in It's literary finds.
They now announce to begin in the DC
tober number series Of letters that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Maine Went.
New York Tribune.)

-
Nobody VIII dispute the fact that
Maine "we~t nell bent" in an opposite
direction from that in which the re-
publican party in that state was head
ed It would have caused no great
surprise if only the democratic candi-
dates for state Offices had been elect
ed. But very few democrats in Maine
expected to carry two of the four con-
eress districts and TO capture the legis-
lature and United States senatorship.
The decisiveness Of the democra tic vic
tory is obvious Maine has turned tenn
porarily to the Democratic party as an
agency to accomplish results which it
thought that the republican party was
derelict in not accomplishing.
So far as tho STATE administration
was concerned It's overthrow this wear
was pretty Clearly forecast in the cleo
tons Of 1906 and 1908. In the former
year the republican plurality for gov
ernor fell to 1858 ct had been 26.Soo
in 1900, and in the latter year TO 1853,
altho for president Mr.. Taft carried the
state by a plurality of 1854 Dis
satisfaction with the prohibition
amendment 70 the state constitution
and with the methods used in enforcing
the prohibition laws has been growing
steadily. The democratic candidates
in 1906 and 1908 stood for resubmis-
sion of the prohibition amendm ent.
The republican state administration op-
posed resubfnission and also enacted a
law taking the responsibility Tor en-
forcing prohibition out of the hands of
the county authorities and intrustinS
IL to state commission. The Trlb-
une said on Sept. Is, 1908. commenting
on the result Of the Maine election Of
that wear. that "the republican party
had been put on the defensive by de-
claring against resubmission.' 1t
rointed out that in Vermont, where a
similar situation had existed. the re-
publican party had wisely yielded to
popular demand for a referendum on
the issue of state wide prohibition YER
sus local option, and that the voters
had substituted local option for proh1-
bition. We added: There seems to
be no reason why a similar course
should not be pursued in Maine, Tor
there can be no harm in taking the
judgment of the community on such
questions at suitable intervals
The republican party in Maine pre-
ferred to stand pat on prohibition,
denying the voters a chance to pass
again on the question directly. They
have now passed on it indirectly, not
only electing an ti-prohfbitfon gov
ernor. but giving him a legislature an
ti-prohibition in both branches. Inc
extent of the reaction is shown In the
capture Of the legislature, which has
not been democratic in both branches
since before the war. But a revolution
n the legislative branch was neces-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
There's something to specu-

tration. There's something to specu-
late on.
Those who contemplate the grave as
at least affording rest. will be dismayed
at the activities OF the late Professor
James.
The democrat who has just carried
Maine for governor, appears to be the
son of his father. The old man turned
the same trick thirty years ago.
An Italian duke who has twice chosen
wife in this country says, An
American girl can be her husbands
equal in every respect" He must be
bidding for No. g.
The temporary craftsmanship of the
New York republican state convention.
seems to carry with it a permanent
advantage.
"Lorimer democrats" Why not make
it less odious and call them "boodling
democrats"
The packers indicted have an open
choice in pleas in arranging for their
defense. They are: A plea of not
guilty. a plea of nolo contende. plea
in abatement, a motion to quash or a
demurrer 10 the Indictment. outside of
these pleas they may base their fight on
a technical point 1t thus appears that
they are not confined TO chuck, as are
so many of the rest of US.
1t is supposed that the man who
stole that $4,000 in Chicago would
have taken the other $4,000 and made
it even money had the change been
handy
Having other fish TO fry, Harmony
probably viii not attempt TO do any
thing With the Ballinger- Pinchot COM
mittee for a while
A girl in a hobble skirt looks like
standpatter running for nomination in
Kansas
Habit is strong. The republicans of
the Danville district have again nomi-
mated Cannon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
SETTLING CASES.


Judge D. VI. Anderson says that the
county Of Wapello is being defrauded
out Of much money by attorneys per-
hitting a settlement of civil cases
docketed with the county clerk and in
the adjustment between the plaintiff
and the defendant no consideration is
taken of the rights of the county to the
costs accrued beyond the filing fee.
The next legislature should enact a
law that would make it certain the
county would get ITS just dues. 1t
might be necessary to hold the corpo-
/ ration liable in damage cases that !c
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
a ReIiahle Medicine-Not a Narcotic
Danger Of Vegetarian Shoes.

I'm a vegetarian" he said. but !
of vegetarian shoes on my vacation in
Maryland. and one warm afternoon,
after my good Maryland dinner of
fried chicken. hot corn pone and
waffles, I laydown in the farm yard
under a tree for a snooze. l snoozed.
suppose, an hour or Two. I awoke
with an itchy feeling about the feet
raised my head md saw a couple
of sheep eating away calmly. They
had finished both shoes but the heels
and uppers."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Iowa Newsrapeys
HERE AND THERE.

The old republican machine in the
state of New York should be defeated
The old leaders are unworthy If
Colonel Roosevelt takes up the fight
in the republican party in the state of
New York against Barnes, Woodruff
and others, we hope he may succeed.
The retirement Of Governor Hughes
would make Roosevelt's leadership i'm
perative because Chairman Griscom
of the county committee is Incapable
and not qualified for leadership
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17

Commenting Roosevelt's snub Of
Lorimer the Spirit Lake Beacon says,
What shall it profit the body polite
70 go about lecturing on civic right
eousness while fellowshiping common
political crooks? What a travesty upon
common honesty 10 hold up graft to
public ignominy while treating graft
ers like honest men? Too much of this
practice has brought politics into con-
tempt an dmade cynics Of citizens
whose unbiased Judgment and endure
ing cooperation are vital 70 good gov
ernment"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17

Mrs. Jacob Wilmert, Lincoln, Ill,
found her way back.to perfect health
She writes: 81 suffered with kidney
trouble and backache and my appetite
was very poor at times. A few weeks
ago got Foley Kidney Pills and gave
them fair trial. They gave me great
relief, so continued till now am again
in perfect health" Mcbride & Will
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
Air.

Air seems to spoil easily. Air trav.
cling through shafts and special air
chambers, in fact. air going through
ANYTHING that cuts it off from the
ocean of atmosphere. loses some of its
Undesirable vitalizing qualities and
is liable to cause WEAKNESS and
feeling of depression to those who ha-
bitually breathe in artificially venti-
lated houses. Scientific examination
may show such air absolutely pure,
but all the same it is poor stuff to
take into the lungs. This also ex.
plains the real rock bottom difference
between town and country air. High.
" artificial food and highly artificial
air, no matter how good they seem.
are not the real stuffs themselves.
A Reliable Medicine-Not Narcotic.
Mrs F. Marti, st. Joe, Mich, says
Foleys Honey and Tar saved her little
BOYS life. She writes: Our little boy
contracted 4 severe bronchial trouble
and as the doctors medicine did not
cure him, I gave him Foley's Honey
and Tar in which have great faith. 1t
cured the cough as we'll as the choking
and gagging spells. and he got well in
a short time. Foleys Honey and Tar
has many times saved US much trouble
and we are never without it in the
house." Mcbride & Will Drug Com
pany
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17

Governor Patterson withdraws as
candidate for governor of Tennessee
ito save the party" The resumption
is that he means the party of the first
part.-St Louis Globe-D Dem ocrat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17

Banker Morse would not tell his
jailor where he got his money and was
put in dark cell Refusing to an
sWer that question has become chronic
with Morse.-San Francisco Chronicle