Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-01

didn't cat up very many mortgages

didn't eat up very many mortgages
per minute.
The retired farmers wife toiled early
and late. washed. scrubbed. churneo
hoed in the garden. raised the chick-
ems, rode to town in wagon, mace
shirts and pants for the children out
of dads old ones. etc.
The house was warmed by the kitch-
en- cook stove. The snow snted into
the attic. The bedrooms were colo as
barns. The ordinary diet was made
up Of salt pork, potatoes and oreao.
Calico dresses, patched overaiis ana
sunbonnets took the place OF silks, sat
ms and various sorts Of bright ana
blooming regalia.
Such is the setting of the scenery IN
the background OF the average re.
tired farmer. BY frugality, seit deniai
and unremittent toll he has been aole
to buy. to pay for and own quarter
section OF land and store up q Few DOL
lars and move to town.
But town life is not what 1t seems.
There are light bills and neat oaiAs
and gas bills, and water bills, ana
sewer bills. and paving bills. and moo
ern Improvement bills. and mammoth
tax bills, and bills. bills. bills. until the
income from the stored up quarter sec
ton looks like 80 cents long peiore
he and his good wife get anything 10
eat and wear.
This isn't all. His critics gracefully
bow him into their places or business
knowingly how him out again, and give
his tribe a dig for not spending more
People who have never done mucn 1o'
themselves complain because he does
not divide up with them.
What Is the crime Of the retired
farmer? Isn't it this: He has toiied
necessarily. saved by self-denial, IS
striving to get a few years rest IN
his latter days on the income from
what he has accumulated, and Is una
bile to keep step with the great plumed
procession Of modern progress, whose
motto is to spend two dollars and
earn one?
When the average critic bulICS
character that is worth as near hum
bred cents on the dollar as the aver
age retired farmer, he will often find
plenty of room for improvement
THOSE IOWA APPOINTMENTS
Nevada Representative
Concerning these appointments Sen
ators Cummins and Kenyon were con-
suited in advance and. as we under
stand, 1t. their hearty approval Sc
cured; but the Iowa democratic or
ganiza,ion heads were ignored.
All OF which is embarrassing to
the Iowa referees" On general prin-
ciples there is undoubtedly strong
desire on the part Of all the democratic
politicians in Iowa to cater to the
sentiments of President Wilson and his
counselors. if such sentiments can be
ascertained, and If the president had
intimated TO the referees that he de-
sired to appoint Messrs. Sullivan ana
Van Wagenen the strong probability
Is that the referees would have jumped
to make the recommendations; but
when the president makes such APP
pointments without telling the referees
and at the same time lets their en-
dorsees for postoffices and things rest
in departmental pigeon holes without
attention, there is at least an Implied
suggestion that the president does not
care a whoop for the Iowa referees.
1t not yet apparent what the referees
propose to do about 1t, nor is 1t even
clear what they can do about 1t; but
that the matter presents to them strong
elements Of dissatisfaction Is more
than whispered and is not at all to DO
doubted; That a continuation on stlle
part of the president of a snubbins
process for the referees will in time
provoke open resentment and some
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and that similar snubs in other states
viii, resul. in trouble for the admins
tra,ion in congress will be only in &C
co-dance with experience in such mat
tiers.
The conditions indicated all re-
late back to the proposition that IN
politics most politicians are PLAYING
some sort Of game. and the OBJECT
of the game in most cases is not more
the possession Of offices than the pow
er-and reputation for po"er-to o's
pose OF offices and other favors. Anu
the conscipuous phase Of the game
right now is tina: the referees repre-
sent the organization That caf!ieo
the Iowa democratic convention iast
wear for Clark, while Sullivan ana van
wasenen were leaders in the move
ment to get as many delegates as pos
sible in Iowa for Wilson and that, with
fayorIng conditions in the convention
itself resulted ultimately in the Iowa
delegation going over to Wilson. al
tho the going over did not happen
while the organization aforesaid was
able to prevent the same. NOW iowa
democrats have not had 30 much po-
I:t:cal patronage of any sort to ois-
tribute as to make them particularly
factional as a whole; but their leaoers
have 1ealousies all the same, and Win
the democratic party in power IN the
country it is pleasant for them to nave
some OF the offices and to get the creo-
it OF distributing the rest OF the onlces.
From the standpoint Of the referees THIS
means that they would like to give 10
Reed the Job he wants and to divide
up the Offices probably with reason
able fairness. but to have - IN
derstood that any Of the Wilson men
in Iowa who actually get jobs must De
getting the same thru the complacehes
and magnanimity Of what was last
wear the Clark organization.
Cob understanding is apparently