Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-28
Topics of the Timse

iiitoh poHu issue for hard
roaos. AT big mass meeting in the
opera house in Temple a member of the
campaign committee was appoin.ed
from each voting precinct in the coun-
~. two-thirds majority must be
pol1ed under the law and the experi
ence has been in Texas that three out
OF nVe of their road bond elections
carry by even larger majorities.
Congress is to investigate strikes.
It will inquire whether postal services
are lhterfered with, whether immigra-
ton laws are being violated and a
number Of other important matters
connected with strikes. But there is
one question that doesn't need investi-
cation and that has it's own answer
ready, the most important of all. DO
strikes interfere with the welfare and
the business of ninety-fve persons who
are not otherwise concerned?" Let's
ask that question and answer it with
legislation that shall protect the pub
lie.
rleu mite might be called the
Durable Dutchman' in the prize ring
OF politics.
Candidate Nollmer in the Second,
does not match with either Mr. BRYAN
or President Wilson on many impor-
tant questions of government, among
others the temperance question. The
democracy would do we'll to remember
that it would still be hanging around
the back door if it We're not for the
secretary and president. They were
the real appeal to the country, not the
democratic party. Bryan and Wilson
are the actual strength of the democ-
racy. Why dilute it with the Voll-
mers?
A Cedar Rapids evangelist wants to
segregate all who use profane or OBJ
scene language from travellers who do
not and suggests a special car set
aside for them. What's the matter
of the smoking car AS it exists? And
in all reason why should the preacher
endure profanity and obscenity when
he can have it's perpetrator arrested
at the next station? Does the minister
com plain to the conductor? Every
trainman nowadays is an officer Why
not segregate the filthy person in jail
instead Of offering him a special car?
The fact is that trainmen are ex-
discussion. They pass the drunken
profane and obscene reprobate with
out hearing him and thus save trouble
for themselves. Some day some road
VIII make reputation and money by
policing its passenger cars.
In the interests of economy and
lower taxes would Mr.. Rowley favor
adding to the income of the state by
selling the privilege to print soap signs
and patent medicine ads on the dome
of the capital?
Even the Oskaloosa Herald is taking
sly shot at the saloon. The absence
of evil communications cultivates good
manners corroborating the assertion
that it's a poor rule that doesn't work
both ways
The situat ton in the Second district
is evidence that almost any one can
chop down a shade tree that took
fifty years to grow and will require
many years to replace.
Only one zero day this winter. If
the weather man were to run for office
who would get the coal dealers vote?
Ten years ago Hillsboro county,
Tampa, Florida, voted 100000 for ma
cadam roads but they found that It
required fourth Of the original cost
per annum to keep macadam roads in
repair so last July they voted $1,O00,-
600 in bonds for seventy-fiv five miles OIL
brick pavements. They simply dug up
the macadam, laid the brick nine feet
wide and tamped the old macadam
back along the sides Of the brick track
They appointed a special committee of
four bankers and one lawyer who de-
vised the plan and promised to re-
tire all Of the bonds both principal
and interest out Of the county's road
taxes without increasing the lsviaa