Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-23
GATHERED IN THE BY-WAYS

doing some direct and open work
which more nearly illustrates what Is
really Soing on In the latest phase OF
the old warfare against The Iowa SEN
Tor senator. For instance there Is be-
ing Giro ula ted among the railway en-
ployes In Iowa circular which refers
to the large number Of railway en-
ployes who have been laii off ostensi
bly, because of the delay in the ad-
vancel rate case. and appeals to these
employees to become politically active.
For instance:
Two million of you, brother railroad
workers. live solely on the railroad pay
car and pay envelope. All you get
and all your families get $ what you
earn by your toll for railroads.
What follows in the argument has
been plainly foreshadowed, but 1t is in
teresting:.
For quarter of century the
wreckers, at Washington and al every
state capital. have been cinchng. ham
mering. ha mpering your industry. low
ering it's rates. raising it's expenses.
loading 1t with costly restrictions
They have got 1t down 50 that your
industry. giving the best service in the
world, gets the poorest returns. And
they arc still cinchng your industry
hammering it, hampering It. And now
what had to happen som. time has
happened. The inevitable consequences
have arrived. You can see them and
feel them all over your industry. Hun
dreds of thousands of YOU arc out of
work. Other hundreds of thousands
are on reduced time
There you are-not a word about
Mr. Mellen, or the Moores, or Mr..
ioakum or any Of the other eNploiters
of -your industry" But the poor
down trodden engineers and conduc
tors and high officials are not per-
mitted to remain IN darkness as to
their political duty. Here are some
following paragraphs;
There are enough Of YOU in Iowa,
North and South Dakota. Missouri, Ne
braska, Kansas, oklahoma and
Arkansas to make the administrations
of those eight states send Mr.. Clifford
Thorne back home to attend to what
ever occupation he has besides that Of
harrassing your industry"
In other words, attention is directed
toward the eight states that combined
to fight the injustice Of the notorious
Western Classification No. 81" and
combined to fight exorbitant express
rates and combined to insist upon full
Investigation of the proposed advance
rates in eastern territory. And again:
I'm Iowa you can convince Senators
Kenyon and Cummins that the price of
batting your industry will be your votes
and their Jobs"
Nothing about that which could be
misunderstood. The railroads suddenly
change from being benevolent organi-
cations to your industry and the rail
way employe is told where to head in
for election day.
Abundance of evidence is at hand to
show that these outside interests are
stirred to the depths of their pocket
books by the fact that 1t is from Iowa
that comes the influence to checkmate
the campaign which Is under way to
furnish added material for the plumber
ing proclivities OF high financiers. For
instance the Railway Age Gazette, the
recognized organ Of the big corpora
tons. called attention to the fact that
a senator on the floor of the senate
criticized the railways for carrying on
a campaign to affect public sentiment.
then referred to him as ''muckraker'
and las much of a demagogue as ever
But later, in an editorial bas ed on the
wholly false declaration that Iowa has