Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-03

We have long been the friend OF
Iowa City and we therefore claim the
right to say exactly what we think.
We are now in favor of leaving the.
engineering school there except for the
matters that appear in this article. But
Iowa City has carbuncle on the back
uf her neck that needs the knife. She
has long concealed the pain and sought
to hide the disease with the deceptive
COCAINE of business expediency. The
particular doctors that have admins
tered the uuieting hypodermic not only
to herself but also to the whole state
for long time, are the genial and de-
lightful Uncle George w. Koontz, and
the bluff and straightforward Uncle
David Brandt. They make the most
plausible, perfect and efficient, monop-
oily we have ever known. Since the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary" a bunch of the leading ctti-
zen Of Iowa City Of both parties, but
nevertheless harbarians. who are living
SO far back in the dark ages that they
still delight in clipping coupons from
brewery bonds, at grave moral risk
to the growth Of our whole state, have
kept Uncle George in the house OF
representatives for the express purpose
of providing by law for a saloon de-
partment in our state university. For
the same identical purpose they have
given Uncle Dave a life membership
in the third house. Uncle George is
democrat but he can see his party go
on the rocks and break up into q
thousand fragments Of flotsam andjet-
sam and never bat an eye or shed q
tear, providing the saloons are pre-
served at Iowa City, and our youth
thousand fragments of flatsom and jet
tional influences. Uncle Dave is a
republican but he could watch the dis
solution Of the last constitutional gov
eminent club and see the progressives
sweep over the land like seventeen
year locusts with perfect serenity If he
can only defeat that five-miie- limit
bill. AS an example Of the invisible
government this is different from any
thing we have used before. The diff
ference hes IN the fact that it is plain
~ visible all the time. The only in
visible thing about il, is the magic of
its success.
The last time we checked up Iowa
had banished the saloons from all but
twelve counties and these were hang
ing on by their eye lashes The other
eiCh1y-seyen have acted with their
plain common sense and upon the plain
truth and banished the greatest evil to
the human race. Every one of these
counties wants to send many of its
sons and daughters to the state uni
yersity II is an audacious and a das
ta-dly insult for Iowa City to maintain
saloons in the face of this situation
and it is a cowardly and pusilanimous
thing fer these eighty-seven counties
10 submit. 1t seems to US the limit has
been reached and the time for action
has arrived.
Now what do Won think is the par
ticular thing that has stirred us up at
this tinee We are perfectly willing to
let you know. The writer Of this has
like to send than all to the state uni
vercity, then finish them out with a
little real education at Ames and make
farmers out OF the whole lot. He is
not educating them for heroes and he
takes no stock in the argument that a
boy should be surrounded with temp
tations to develop his moral stamina.
IT his boys fall It shall not be because
ne ulytSCl1 1UII1SlSS l1SIH lue tSlup
,ions that lead to their moral destruc-
ton. He does not want to put them
cut in any saloon besotted city to go to
school. He believes Iowa City has no
right to tell him to so elsewhere and
he will therefore fight to clean up
Iowa City and make it a decent place
for university which is not now the
tact. He admits he has been cow
ard to wait until he has a personal in
terest to get into this fight. but he is
now willing to fight in the advance
guard both day and night to atone for
this negligence and make UP for lost
time 1t will be proud day for Iowa
City when she can invite the youth Of
the state to come to school in city
that is not set with the criminal, en-
ucing snares Of intoxicating drink.
That day will be the beginning Of her
prosperity. After one dry year even
the sordid argument of dividends will