Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-27
Looker-On In Iona

Northwood, May 27.-1n Minnesota
over Sunday the writer asked a Few
questions concerning the attitude OF re-
publicans in that state toward Presi-
dent Taft, or rather the official say
ings and doings of the head or the
party. Its the same as here in Iowa.
With Taft at the head of the ticket, the
state of Minnesota would be hopelessly
democratic. Congressman Tawney like
our Congressman Hull would stand no
chance for reelection if it was not for
the possibility of his getting large ap-
preparations out of "the pork barrel.
1t works just as Well in Minnesota as
in Iowa. Elect me and I'll get more
out of the United States treasury fur
river Improvements and public build
ings than any man you can SEND to
congress" Just the same Tawney is
no more sure of getting there than
Hull
Minnesota like Iowa is wrestling
with the whisky question There was
monster temperance parade in Min
neapolis the other day, some claiming
10000 persons We're in the lines. Up
there the temperance people are work
ing for county option. The plan Is to
keep up the agitation till they get
majority Of dry" counties. When this
is assured then to bring pressure to
bear on the following legislature to en-
act prohibition law. Minnesota like
Iowa is giving encouragement TO the
temperance workers for the reason the
saloon men have abused their privi-
leges and sales TO minors and drunk
ards being almost a common trans
erosion. Again the brewers have to
blame themselves, so fierce IS the COM
petition. that they set men up in the
saloon business, that have not $50 in
the world" and the result is there are
many disreputable men running sa-
looms. with natural and inevitable sur
roundings.
The wise men of Minnesota have
made laws concerning fishing and
game killing that viii change some
Gay At present pickerel are worthless.
Kill EN- on sight, they're nothing but
snakes. In tamarack swamp, with the
yellow, bitter water that comes from
the decaying stumps and logs, black
bass Is game fish. while the despised
pickerel in ice cold running rivers is
a snake unfit for food Bass are pro-
tected by closed season until May "a.
as they spawn later than in our Iowa
lakes, and for the best results in both
Iowa and Minnesota, the dates should
be extended at least ten days later, for
the experience of all fishermen, prac-
teal experience, Is the spawning seas
on extends in Iowa until the 1st of
June and in Minnesota frequently until
June 10. One sportsman OF Minnesota
who every year kills his two deer-all
the law allows-says wearing red hats
and red bandana handkerchiefs around
the neck, while out deer hunting is no
Joke. nor the sign of a coward He says
that rural route carriers during the
open season for deer nearly all wear
red on their hats, and any hunter going
into the woods with a gray suit or
even a gray macintosh takes his life in
his hands That every year there's
q lot Of hunters out in the woods
chiefly city bred, that shoot at any
thing that woves. He says there's
many a tragedy enacted in the Mime
sofa and Wisconsin woods. that never
IS reported in the papers. Even among
the old hunters and guides the posi-
bility Of being shot during the open
season for deer, is a common subject
Of conversation ana the cause Of much
nervousness among men who are sup
posed to lack nerves.
Getting back TO Iowa. the proposal
Of our game warden to stock Iowa with
pheasants is generally approved. al.ho
many have doubts. One thing is sure
and Governor Carroll and future gov
ernors can rest assured, the men who
pay the hunters license want every
dollars whether IT'S 800 or 100000,
paid into the state treasury, TO be spent
only for the preserva ton Of fish and
game in Iowa. No diversion of this
fund Is the general feeling.