Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-08
TIMES REPUBLICAN,

TIMES-REPUBLlCAN,
what has always kept the typical news
paper mans finances at low ehb-
charging nothing for his own services
and yelling his head of every time
some man claimed ed his services were
| worth more than 81 a day."
In all the range OF our modern civil
| ization there is no man so poor as he
! who is over weighted with property,
| moralizes the Vail Observer. HE is
burdened down by it, he does not know
how to dispose Of 1t with best result
and, as a consequence, he gets far less
| satisfaction out OF life than the man OF
| moderate means, and probably less
| than the man with no means at ALL
while this small fling" says the
Waterloo Courier, referring to the pres
| ident's remark that he is unable to
surmise where the insurgents will
stand, will be bitterly assailed by
many Of the insurgent politicians and
newspapers, it can not be said that
| the utterance is without provocation:
! the Courier believes that it is justified"
| The fear of the peniteEtiary is
about the best solution for the trust
problem that has been offered says
the Shenandoah World A. big man
who has conspired to restrain trade,
placed behind he prison bars. would
do more to solve it than any other
thing"
The Sioux City Journal notes
that Senator Guggenhe.m has
announced that he will retire
at the end OF his first term and give
his attention to pressing private inter-
ests Senator Guggenheims first cleo
ton cost him a pot of money. 1t is sus-
pected that, after glancing over the
press notices, Senator Guggenheim has
concluded he hasn't got his moneys
worth"
The cost of operating up-to date
railroads may be shown in many ways.
But the head of the train. the loco
motive. tells the story" declares the
Davenport Democrat. Thirty years ago
the common locomotive which weighed
than $4,000 The mogul of today.
weighing six times as much. calls for
an outlay Of more than S43.060 The
so marked an increase, but note that is.
nevertheless large
The Boone News-Republican finds it
good "to learn than President Taft now
No r.; ORR 10
mona speech
1.-The Iowa farm is becoming more
and more COW farm and viii! continue
to co so in the years to come asserts
the Woodbine Twiner. Land is be-
coming tco valuable to continue in the
old way Of farming, cuitivating every
available acre in the grain crop. The
land needs cows, and it is no longer
speculation as to the net showing in
| dollars and cents, over the old method.
The Newton News upholds the honor
of county. with following explanation:
Mr. Balm, the former Jasper county
man who accepted a bribe in the in
famous Mcnamara trial, married a
California woman. Maybe that &C.
counts Tor II.
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune
| notes that "Joe Cannon now admits
that he will never be president" and
adds that 1t was TOO bad the admis-
| sion was not sprung prior to Thanks
giving. as it would have helped to
! properly observe the day"
eve do not suppose that Mr.. Roose-
welt is contemplating being candi-
cate for president again." says the
| Boone wsRepublican HE has
probably read an account of the re-
| publican convention of $780,"
The president declares the Regis
ter and Leader, is a good man: pos
sibly history will write him down a
great man. Blu. as a political leader
| he is hopeless"
According to most people who have
! studied and revised Andrew Carne-
| gie's list of great men says the Dav-
| export Democrat, sit was composed
very largely Of third raters. It was
the kind OF list that would be expected
/! from a captain of industry, but hardly
! from create llDTaTlfS. w nile II
| did give place to Shakespeare and
Burns. one is impeled to inquire where
were Moses and Socrates, Plato and
Caesar. ST. Pau! the apostle, Kant and
Goethe. Darwin, Pasteur and many
others
The Burlington Hawkeye suggests
that if it is to be "do-rothing" ses-
sion of congress, as the senators and
| congressman are predicting, then there
is big incentive for business to lift
its head and get active. Business and
political legislation, the Hawkeye
adds, do not do good team work"
Mr. Littleton, of New York" notes
the Burlington Gazette, spoke almost
as earnestly yesterday in his own be-
half as he did some years ago for
Harry Thaw.''
The Burlington Gazette says tina;
with the Beatties, the sPattersons, the
TAR Marty tho Vernilvas the Oui1ns