Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-28
Topics of the Times
Anyway this is a good year for the
well diggerS.

vsors do not hesitate to invest $4,000
| in single concrete bridge because it
| is a permanent structure. Some day
| we will learn that concrete pavements
can be laid on the rural highways for
that sum per mile.
| Now for a cool, pleasant summer.
We have had our usual torrid spell
We will yet see fires on the hearth in
August.
And now Oelwein has decided to be
progressive and pave, but will she
! pay $4,000 per city block for brick
when a more durable ard more beauti-
full pavement can be laid Of concrete
! for $4,000?
Even the Cedar Rapids Republican
now enjoys what the Register and
| Leader has 70 say about Cummins.
/ a Cedar Rapids man reports that
! a cat killed twenty-three of his chick
ems. What excuse is there for cat
! anyway There is some use for dogs.
They can bark. and the boys Ike to
! play with them. but the average cat IS
not worth twenty three chickens in
one week Cedar Rapids Republican.
All right. but why excuse the dog?
Do they not sometimes bite the bah
les? Most OF US would rather lose the
twenty three chickens
The complete victory over BalinSer
ana the coal land grabbers has finally
been won in the declaration by the new
secretary of the interior that the Cum
ningham claims are disallowed, The
exit Of Ballinger and the appointment
Of a successor who Will stand for the
public welfare marks one Of President
Tatt's characteristic reversals of him
self.
And it seems that Congressman
Pepper. the democrat from the Second
Iowa district, is taking a poll of his
own. He is trying 10 convince him
self that Iowa democracy is for Champ
Clark for president. This ought TO Sc
cure recognition for Pepper from the
speakers chair.
Don't cuss the farmer who buys an
automobile when money is tight He
is moving his farm TO town when he
buys a machine with which 10 annihil-
ate distance.
If each township would level the
hills on six miles of road every year.
in ten years every mile Of road in the
country would be brought TO grade as
level as a railroad grade. The way
10 do il is TO have a complete sur
way 10 do 1t is 10 have complete sur
vey made with plats and profles just
as railroad people do, then work TO the
plats.
The reason this seems like such a
quiet summer is that We have bien
NAL elections now
It it always possible to make out a
strong ase against a man by first i'm
pugning his motives. And that is the
whole case against the insurgents at
Washington. Looking back over re-
cent events from the -Aldrich tariff 10
the Fisher decision in the Cunningh nam
coal land cases and it is clearly appar-
ent that the insurgents have been right
all the time. But no matter how often
the odd guard is forced to accept in
surgent principles and remedies, The
abuse heaped upon their heads goes
right on. It's become a habit with
their critics and they act automatically
rather than from reasoning premises.
Yes. Taft is making good, Of late.
And il will be noted that he is tenting
on old insurgent ground while he is do
ing it
John Sharp Williams, democratic
senator from Mississippi, says: We'll
! vote against the Lords prayer if it is
incorporated as a part Of the reciproc-
iity BILL To all of which President
Taft would say, amen:
The Sioux City Journal says: HE,
CTaft) is not relying on insurgents, be-
ing a man OF judicial temperament and
qualified to gather wisdom from ex-
perience" Sure enough! Taft first
placed his reliance in Aldrich. Balm
ger and Winona speeches. Since the
late congressional elections he has
moved up to Crane, Stimson, Fisher
| and reciprocity. This is q notable i'm
provement. BY and by he will get into
| the ranks of the men responsible for
! his nomination and election where he
! should have been all the time. All his
troubles have been due to the fact that
he placed no reliance in insurgents
! the men who are genuinely and truly
| for a square deal. 1t may be noted in
| passing that Mr. Taft is coming to place
a great deal Of reliance in insurgent
principles as a bridge likely to connect
him with another term in the White
House. He is surely and truly garner
| ing wisdom from experience.
Balinger says the cancellation Of
those Cunningham claims was a polit-
ical rather than judicial decision. The
peculiar part of Mr. Ballinger's state
ment, however lies in the fact that
along with his charge that it was a
political decision he takes occasion to