Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-24
CLARKE WON HIS OWN FIGHT.
lDes Moines Register and Leader. ]

The Sioux City Journal is. clearly
justified in protesting against credit
ing the success of Governor Clarke to
an Irresistible wave of returning re-
publican supremacy
The Journal might have gone much
further than that While there were
many encouraging signs for hopeful
republicans in the late campaign, II
is not to be overlooked that with every
congressman going home to his con-
stituency, the admins; ration carried
the lower house by a majority of more
than twenty at a mid term election.
Speaking of Governor Clarke the
Journal says:
The Journal adheres to the opin-
ion that Governor Clarke was elected
because capitol extension was an
empty issue and the general taxation
issue a false one. The experience OF
neighboring states shows that the ma
tional influence alone was not suffi-
cient to save local candidates when
local conditions dictated their de-
feat. The logical inference is that
Governor Clarke might have been de-
feated had a really strong state issue
been brought to bear against him. that
he need not thank the tariff takers
for his victory"
Governor Clarke won his own Aght
at the polls, and he would no, have
won it If he had not debated the local
issues OF the state campaign to a
standstill M
1t viii not. do Ito take too much
for granted abou. the returning wave
Of republican supremacy The Wilson
a q n tim a ma cYifira !
point without meeting party disaster.
The republicans have still to demon
strate that the country IS with them.
PEACE MAKING.
[Rev. Jenkins In Sioux City Journa!.J
SO we are brought face to face with
the fact that the only way TO make
peace is To remake the man.
The hsst thing FOR a medical student
to learn is to treat causes and not
symptoms. The first thing for re-
former TO seek is not the status, but
the origin OF the status The cure OF
war is not war. One can never cure
war b. nursing the spirit Of the war
r.or. The surest way TO have war Is to
prepare tor iightins. Give boy pis-
toll to carry in his pocket and ii Will
not take long for the bully to develop
in him. Nhen all gentlemen wore
swords even the subalterns and menials
Of the Montagues and Capuiets would
suffer no one to bite his thumb" al
them. We have had now close upon
atty years OF peace. because in 1855 We
mustered out Our army and because we
have neither fort nor sentinel along the
1000 mics which measure our north
ern boundary from coast to coast. But
give US the army Of Germany and the
navy of Great Britain and we woulG
have war within five years, perhaps
within one. The way to make peace
is TO cultivate it in our own breasts and
to honor it in our fellows. Too often
| we hear men talk as tho the relations
OF states to each other were things tc
be placed upon wholly different plane
than those between individuals; but
the state is only the man writ large.
We can not have one. code for the citi-
zen and another for the republic, CON.
posed of these same citizens. We have
not got beyond that low moral plane Of
which Shakespeare wrote when HI
| said.
That which in mean men we entitl,
patience"
Is pale, cold "cowardice" in noble
! breasts.
| 1t Is time we ceased to applaud II
the ruler that which we punish in tn
subject.