Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-24

try, a. administered. is based on the
short sentence. It is essential in Iowa,
for instance. that q first offenders rec
ord be tainted by eleven months i'm
prisonment before he Is given a chance,
such, then. as 1t is. to make good.
Mr.. McKenna would give offenders a
chance to make good on the start;
and. il they fail. detain them in
definitely.
Why not?
THE MONEY BILL.
lDes Moines Register and Leader.1
There can be no mistaking the
general sentiment OF the community.
1t II favorable to the new banking
and currency Law.
Two money panics and the report OF
the Aldrich commission had prepared
the country for something. and. on the
whole, the plan that has been worked
out promises as well as any.
Time will disclose many defects and
suggest many changes. But there will
never be return to the present want
always have national system OF
banking and a national massing OF
credits.
president by republican agitation and
republican investigation. But 1t must
be said for the president that he was
ready for ths opportunity and that he
has forced action in a way few other
presidents could have done.
With a narrow party margin In the
senate to work with. with some OF the
sblest democrats plainly hostile. the
passage of this bill marks triumph OF
personal leadership rarely. II ever. sur
passed in our legislative annals.
THE EXPERIENCE OF KANSAS.
IDes Moines Register and Leader.l
The secretary OF the state board
OF agriculture OF Kansas sends out
favorable announcement Of condt-
tons in spite Of the drouth Of the last
season. Among the claims he makes;
based on the report OF the attorney
general. are the following:
Kansas has 81 counties out Of
total OF los without any insane. 81
without any feeble minded. SO without
any inebriates. ss without any poor
houses. 63 without any prisoners in
jail. IS without any convicts In the
states prison, and dozens in which no
case in ten years.
Explaining this remarkable show
ing. Mr.. Coburn says lard the name
of Coburn 10 sufficiently we'll known
tho nation over to give character to
the claim:
Here 10 q state whsre traffic in in
toxicating liquors IL prohibited by her
constitution for all time: where sobrie-
- and clean living are II premium
and their opposites aTe at q tremen-
dous discount; where temperance II
an everyday tangible fact with 80 per
cent OF the people ana not. merely
dream or FAD Of women and preach
ers." where the man ceiling intoxi-
cants. thereby ENCOURAGING drunken
ness, crime, and pauperism in the ris.
ing generation. 10 an outlaw.
The Register and Leader has taken
occasion to satisfy ITSELF that, making
reasonable allowance for the language
OF booster circular, what the state
secretary Of agriculture says Is true.
Business men OF the Sunfiower state
who formerly lived IN, Iowa and in
whose judgment the utmost reliance
can be placed, bankers and lawyers OF
standing today in Kansas, agree that
the abolition Of the liquor traffic has
worked a wonderful change. Where
as In cities like Wichita rohibition OF
the saloon was bitterly resisted by
merchants and business men, today.
after a few yearS trial, not q bust.
ness man OF standing can be found to
encourage or vote for the return OF the
saloon.
The Register and Leader could quote
from travelling man Of German birth
VINO has IN his home and uses beer
himself. whose route 10 over both Iowa
and Kansas, II he cared to have his
name used, to the effect that one trip
over the two states has settled his
own mind with regard to the ljuuor
tfanlc. and that whatever he could
quietly make his influence felt It would
oe Tor the elimination Of the saloon in
Iowa. It was his experience that our
chases were uniformly larger and obii.
sauohs more promptly met where
iiquor was not sold than where II vas.
IT ID well here in Iowa to be get
ing this point Of View, for nothing
's surer than the abolition of the
open saloon in this state within a
comparatively short time. With the
country overwhelmingly against the
saloon and our larger cities showing
at best only an even break for tho
saloon. with not a single newspaper
IN the state. so far as our obserya-
ton has gone. making q plea for the
saloon, or even apoligtzing for 1t. with
no political party willing to ally itself
with the saloon. the end Is not far
of. and when 1t comes 1t will be with
out recall.
1t stands 10 reason, Of course, that
the enormous amount Of money today
spent in Iowa for liquor, II not used
in that way or used in lessening de-
gree. would flow into the other cham
nels Of trade and increase the demand
for other services. What Is theoretical
for Iowa, having been proved out in
Kansas. and that. too, in the present
year Of extreme drought. when Cover
nor Hoch claims for Kansas larger per
capita bank deposits than any other
state can show there IN no reason why
Iowa should not be getting her house
in order for the change that 10 bound
to come.