Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-09

except TOR the delivery of mail. The
chances are that the parents Of that
young man are very good people. They
didn't know what he was doing when
he was chasing around in dads auto.
mobile, spending dads money. and
! they will bo terribly surprised and
Srieved when they learn that he was
dismissed from the university, and Of
what he has been doing since. They
won't understand 1t at all, but other
| people will. and they won't all blame
the boy. Money and an automobile
with no work to do and freedom to.
roam,s are the best combination on
| earth to ruin high school youngster.
BAsHOR THE LESS ATTRACTIVE"
| Nevada Representatives.
The effort of outside leaders Of the
bull moose Iarty to accomplish the re-
tirement Of Frank q. Stuart as the
Iowa Progressive candidate for senator
and the substitution of Casper Schenk
has been half successful. In other
words. Mr.. Stuart. as previously noted,
has gotten our in disgust and indigna-
ton; but NJ. schenk has not found it,
desirable to step into a situation SO,
complicated with troubles, and Mr.
Bashor of Waterloo has come forward
and announced himself and appears
now to be the destined candidate whose;
function In the coming campaign will
be to endearOr to withhold progressive
votes from Senator Cummins. Upon
the whole We do not think 1t Is to be.
doubted thai the interference Of the
outaide' leaders in opposition to Sena-
Cunmins has been in fact very much
in the interest OF Senator Cummins.
Stuart and Bashor are alike in that
they arc both progressives with demo-
cratic records. and that they are both
very Ill fitted to draw republican. or
late republican. support from Cum
minis; but of the two Bashor Is dis
tinctly the iees attractive, and he IL
loaded now with the effects of the muss
OF which Stuart was the center though
hardly the cause. AS for the outside
interference. 1t has served to illustrate
once more that it IL a lot better for the
general 1eaders Of any movement to-
leave the local affairs of the movement
in the hands Of the people on the
ground. In 1915 the interference OF
outsiders through Medill Mccormick In
the interest of the nomination of a bull
moose state ticket undoubtedly cost
Colonel Roosevelt the electoral vote OF
Iowa, and row the same sort Of In
reference has made a worse wreck Of
what was already all organization with
its legitimate work accomplished and
KS prospect: fr- further usefulness not
apparent.
TAXES.
washington County Press.1
IN j,,c$
Moines. He went in and jumped on
the executive council about raising
values. What do you think they said.
Well. they just pulled a table out of
the desk and showed us that the farm
values as sent to them from Wash
ington county were $s1.14 per acre. and
they reduced them to s7a.oa Did you
notice that word reduced" Well we
ducked. We had no more business
with the executive council on the tax
question. We have heard several hun
bred men turn the air blue for miles
around with the choicest old English
cuss words now in circulation, because
the executive council had increased
farm values in Washington county. We
never denied 1t. We thought it was
true and got bumped. The raise was
all made by local authorities and the
executive council actually reduced 1t
by SSH per acre. But keep in mind
these are net our tax articles. We are
now simply sounding an alarm to get
the taxes reduced for next year if you
went them reduced
There Is no politics in this. all par
ties have made exactly the same mis-
takes. The cheap skate who tries TO
make politics out Of 1t VIII get bat
tered 80 hard he will never smile again:
What we want Is a reduction or the
taxes and not an initiation Of politics.
A democratic trustee can reduce these
just as much as a republican trustee.
Ditto the county board. No more guess
work. Let every fund be figured ex-
actly according to the new valuation
and reduced to what we need. II they
do this the mistakes OF the past will be
cured and forgotten before the ce<n
ripens.
The whole trouble is We ali know
how to be governor but none Of US
knows how 70 be trustee This tax bus
mess II more than three-fourths
handled right here at home so let us
begin at home where the big trouble
arises.