Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-23
Iona Newspapers


WHY NOT INSPECT IN IOWA:
[Des Moines Tribune.]
The Evening Tribune does not know
exactly what the members of the state
highway commission expect to learn by
going to Michigan at state expense to
investigate cement road making.
Des Moines has in the past year or
two laid a great deal OF cement. A
handsome addition to the city has been
paved turnout with cement. under the
general supervision of Mr.. Berryhill
and other business men Of like stand
ing.
Councilman Myerly has made care
full study Of cement. and he probably
knows more about the cost Of laying
cement under public contract than
anybody in the state.
If the junket of the commission will
serve in any way to interest the state
in hard surfaced roads, or to acquaint
the state with what other states are
doing. it will be worth the cost.
But it is not necessary to leave Iowa
to learn how to make durable and in
expensive cement roads.
WORTHLESS NEGRO is TO BLAME
burlington Hawkeye.l
A correspondent talks of the danger
of race riots in Freeport, Ill There
Is probably no fairer and no more
peace-Ioving town in the state than
Freeport. There was a little trouble
with negro toughs. In every town
there are good negroes who behave
themselves, just as most OF the white
folks do, and who are respected by
everybody. Every town is coming to
have her share and perhaps more than
her share of bad negroes. all sorts OF
colored rifr-raff that never worked
and never will. Every town has suf-
ficent white trash to contend with
and yet the colored bad element seems
TO be treated with greater leniency
than the white trash. If in every city
a very decided stand were taken
against all sorts of colored trash,
| that would be no proof of race pre-
judice, but simply a determination to
| enforce the law and put down and If
| possible, drive out worthless ele-
ments. The race question does not
exist where negroes try to become
home owners, work hard, pay their
debts and attend to their own bust
ness. That is what is expected Of the
| White citizen, and there is no reason
why the colored citizen should not be
! expected to work and to save some
thing, to attend vecS strictly 10 his
own business and not to butt in"
where he has not been invited. If
there is a trace Of prejudice against
colored people in the northern towns,
! it has been called forth by the worth
| less Niger and not by the good
colored people.
QUARANTINE FOR HOG CHOLERA
| Davenport Democrat
| Something ought to be done at once
to stop the spread of hog cholera III
Scott county. The plague has again
broken out with all its accustomed
virulence and our farmers are facing
repetition Of last years heavy financia
loss. With the disease raging in over q
! dozen droves scattered thru five town
ships. LeClaire, Pleasant Valley, Long
Grove, Aliens Grove and Hickory
Grove. there is every probability that
it will spread over the entire county
and wipe out the bulk of the small
herds which survived from last years
| epidemic. The only organized loca
| movement against cholera 10 the coun'
| ty crop league This organization is
urging vaccination with serum as the
only practical cure. But they can not
secure the serum in sufficient quaint
ties. The vaccine should be sent Out
from Ames but the station manufac.
turing 1t there can not meet the de-
mand. Where is the serum to be pro-
| curedc The last legislature passed
a law prohibiting importation Of the
vaccine into Iowa from other states
The farmers probably will, and right
lily should. overlook this law. Thei
should get the serum from some othe1
state station whose product Is known
to be first class. But with small
! supply from this source for the imme