Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-03
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Governor Carroll also has some
policies he would like to have time &c
carry out" Iowa City Citizen.
There will be no trouble about that
He will be given time TO remove them
The OdeboIt Chronicle has completed
It's twenty third year, and its editor
and founder has broken the Sac county
record for long service in the editorial
harness. James y. Miller, who estab-
lished the Sac Sun in 1871, owned and
edited that newspaper, twenty-five
years. Everett Lee, now of the Lyt-
ton Star, is the oldest editor in the
county, but his term of service has
been shorter than Billy Hamilton
on the Chronicle. The Chronicle mas
nothing TO do with "23' outside of its
birthday number. 1t doesn't shddoo
for anybody.
Presumably, the Sunday school ath-
letic league to be organized in Council!
Bluffs will take its place alongside the
Christmas tree as a quichener OF inter-
est in the catechism.
Well. anyway, Tom Taggart isn't to
go TO senate-not just yet.
The attorney general of Illinois has
stated his willingness TO assist the
county prosecutor in an investiga-
ton of the bribery charges in connec-
ton with the election of Lorimer to
the senate. SO, it seems the idea that
the office of attorney general ought
10 amount to something may spread
from Iowa to other states.
A real patriot is the man who makes
two names grow on the census roll
where but one would have grown had 1t
not been for his effort
There must have been some lemons
in that Illinois Jackpot.
And in the end, the river-to-river
road will differ from other roads only
TO the extent that more work and more
money are expended upon it. Some of
those most enthusiastic over the pro-
1ect seem to be under the impression
that the angels or somebody or some
thing else equally remote from their
own pocketbooks will transform this
highway into perfect poem of smooth
ness and keep it so. It's dream.
Even the receipts from the twentieth
anniversary number didn't seem TO
have the power to dispell the weight
of pessimism that overhangs Late
Young.
An expert says pork is high because
theer are not enough hogs to supply
the demand, and corn cheap because
there are not enough hogs to eat the
supply. How then would it do to take
short cut and eat corn a while?
Judge Grosscup is one of the few
men of the day to be cocksure of a
remedy for the trust evil. He says that
it is all wrong to try to destroy the
trusts Such remedy, he says, would
be inadequate and impossible. The
trusts are the outgrowth of evolution
and evolution can not be checked" de-
clares the judge Then what is to be
done? Why, says the judge, restrict
the trusts to a living profit" But bless
US, what's the difference between that
and destruction? Would trust re-
stricted to a living profit be trust in
the sense that the word now is COM
monty used? The judge seems to be
lit 1r
The house and senate railroad bills
seem to be due for collision in con-
ference And they are not exactly run
ming on the same track. either.
Six weeks yet to the primary. That
gives time for lots Of explaining.
The man who makes the charge in
Illinois that Lorimer got his seat In the
senate by bribery is named White His
name seems to be the only thing about
the transaction not Of a decidedly Diff
ferent color.
So far as Lorimer is concerned, most
OF US ind it easy enough to credit the
bribery story. The mans reputation
has heAn had for a LONG time go had
in fact, that he got into the senate.
go
The preachers Of California have
started campaign to prevent the
fight. II they could
borrow Iowa's attorney general for .