Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-08

later in the day to the police court.
where the eeg thrower plead guilty to
assault. paying . fine OF s. and costs.
which he later remarked was well
worth the price Moral-Dont scrap
about little things.
FEDERAL AID SEEMS FARCrCAI"
[Cedar Rapids Republican,
The national government has I'M
der way, in congress, good ROADS
bill. It provides for certain expendi-
lures on mail routes. amounting 20
about SIS to 325 per mile Of such
roads. The government might as
we'll save the $1s,000,000 involved IN
such Improvements" They Will
amount to nothing and the enects or
the expenditures will nos be visible
three months after they have been
made. What good will 1t do the ma
tional government, or any one else 20
scatter $40 worth Of work or mater
ias on mile Of dirt road: 1t Woulo
mean nothing more permanent than
the filing up OF few holes. Whlch
the people who travel along the road
ought to have pride and sense enough
to fill up themselves. For the national
government to reach clear across the
country with such expenditures Is the
height Of folly. as we look at 1t.
With $50 a mile nothing can be done
that will have any permanent, or even
important temporary effect. 1t takes
two or three thousand dollars mile
to really make road and until some
one is ready to put that amount OF
money into the roads. the work on them
might as we'll be left to the localities
and to those who most use such roads.
Until we get ready to concrete the
country roads-macadam is worthless
in states like Iowa for we do not have
the stone that makes good macadaHn,
our limestone being only trifle more
durable than our yellow clay-until we
get ready for such expenditures about
all that we can do is to keep the roads
graded and crowned and drained ana
dragged and the people who use the
roads ought to be able to provide that
much.
Nor will thar much amount to so
little. The road that is crowned and
drained and dragged Is bound to be a
good dirt road eleven months or so
in the year, good enough for all ordi-
nary PURPOSES We have in this state
at the present time ample laws for
such results, but we do not seem to be
working much under those laws. In
many places no attention at all is
paid to the law.
HOW 1T WORKED IN WOODBURY..
(Cor-ectionville News.l
This county defeated the efforts to
m H.
dacy Of her own favorite son for presi-
dent and permitted a group Of A. B.
Cummins' arch enemies and irrecon-
ciliable standpatters to hand progress
sive Iowa a package which little
wakefulness and energy on the part
Of Woodbury. county progressives could
have prevented.
In the republican state convention at
Cedar Rapids the vote was: Cummins.
100; anti-Cummins, ISl.
With Woodbury's 81 votes where they
rightly belonged. the vote would have
been:
Cunmins. Is4: anti Cummins, 1877.
We say rightly belonged adVisedly.
The county central committee is pro-
gressive. chosen by the people of the
various precincts. All that was needed
wish Of the people who elected them TO
office. But unlike the standpatters
who never sleep, or never give quarter
the progressives were generous In VIC
tory and permitted their antagonists
to slip one over on them in the cleo
ton Of chairman. With an energetic
progressive as chairman. Uncle
George" Perkins. Of the Sioux City
Journal, would not have been coun-
seled with and the county convention
would rot have been run by Mr.. Per-
kins and Mr.. Perkins would not now
be at the head OF the national con-
vention.
The progressive cause has one great
fault. While its constant trend 10
forward, Its advances are spasmodic
The standpatters are always alert to
take I'D the slack and use it to their
advantage: probably because they are
captained by the old time political
bosses, adroit. masterful men who
know that eternal vigilance 10 the price
of PATRONAGE.