Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-02
OUT WITH A MARRIED MAN"
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[Coon Rapids Enterprise
A Young woman at Castana COM
mitted suicide because having taken
an auto ride with a married man, she
saw the fact was sure to leak out
and forever disgrace her as she
thought The fact of the ride did not
prev upon her conscience. 1t was the
thought of it becoming known that
crazed her. Public opinion Is thus
seen to be deterant in its influence
though in this case It failed to prevent
the misdeed though, 1T did so weigh
upon the girls mind and conscience as
to cause life to seem not worth living.
There might be nothing wrong in TAX
ing an auto ride with a married man II
taken in broad daylight. But a night
ride with a married man a community
stands aghast at. Though the married
man might be Of the same character or
a single man. who might with pro-
priety have taken the young lady out
for night ride. this could not have
altered the case in this case. The man
being married made, the whole thing
seem dreadful This was not that q
married man is made immoral by be-
ing married. Being married as rule
tends to make man more moral,
nevertheless it seems dreadful to a
community when married man takes
a young woman or another mans wife
out riding in the night time. Why ts
this thus? Well for one thing. mar
ried men and single women and the
wives Of other men are not supposed
to keep company, not In the dark at
least. and If they do the public is quick
to assume that both have immoral and
sensuous thoughts. This girl may have
been just giddy. thoughtless. impulsive
and bit reckless, without being i'm
moral or having immoral thoughts.
The autoist might have offered her
just a ride around town and instead
have taken her far out into the coun-
try against her will, she being help
less. At any rate it would seem that
the girl had sensitive conscience else
she would not have shuddered and
gone partially insane and taken heT
/ life through fear of exposure of her
!! indiscreet act. A man could not be
| much of a man who would endanger a
girls reputation in this way.
GOV. .CLARKE'S STRONG SPEECH
ECouncii Bluffs Nonpareii.]
| Governor George W. Clarke made one
of the strongest. most brilliant and
most conclusive speeches ever heard
in Council Bluffs, in the Masonic
| temple Tuesday evening
The governor is deeply concerned II
| the question of taxation in Iowa. This
Is not, as many may assume because
Of personal interest; it is because the
work of the present executive council
was an honest effort to comply with
the law, and a reputation OF this worl
on the part OF the people is eQuivalen
to saying to men who are elected II
places at the head OF the state govern
ment, you must ignore the laws 70,
have sworn to uphold and execute.
No man in Iowa is more cognizant o
the Importance Of obedience to Law
than the governor. Disregard to Law
is one among the greatest Of our ma
tional sins Clarke refuses to believ'
that Iowa people are going to requir
their public servants to repudiate tn
laws Of the state.
Governor Clarke made it very clea
that the methods Of taxing property II
Iowa are crude and approach the alb
surd in their Inequalities. A start ha
been made toward the use Of a metho'
Of adjustment which, II 1t Is adhered tc
will bring something Of order out
. chaos. Absolute obedience to the LAY
in the listing Of property for taxin
purposes, in the judgment Of the gov
ernor, is the only remedy which WI
effect cure o. our present Ills.
l The conspicuous feature OF the gov
, errors speech was its absolute fair
t ness. There was not the slightest ei
: fort at equivocation or evasion. N
Clarke did not ettemnt to gain favor fo
himself at the expense OF the sleelsia
: ture, boards Of supervisors, educatlons
. boards or any other group Of peopi