Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-19
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| Opposes HuSn TO MluSdFiOWs
"The United States is being urged
| by over patriotic citizens to join in the
| mad rush to militarsm, to turn aside
| from the pursuits Of peace, thru which
we have achieved all our greatness and
adopt a system of great standing
| armies. Between the United States and
| Canada lies an International boundary
| line 5000 miles in length without fort
| or a gun. Across this line not hostile
| soldier from either line has crossed IN
| 100 years, With this concrete example
of national comfy and good will be-
tween two of the great nations shall
we forsake traditions and ideals that
| have led us thus far and descend in the
| scale of civilization until we are on a
| level with the warning nations? The
traditions and genius of the great re-
public is opposed to the whole propa-
garda.
Thru wise and beneficent legisla-
ton Of the republican party = there
is rot a county within our borders that
has less than two railway lines touch
ing it and there is not a town, village
or farm house that is not within hear
ing distance of the whistle Of rail-
way engine in the commerce of the
state.
Necessity Of Good Roads.
I'm recent years a new element has
| entered our transportation problems.
The use of the motor truck, the trac-
ton engine and the auto has brought
to our attention the question of good
| roads. Let this convention speak in
| recognition of the Importance of good
roads as an economic and social asset
to the state. The republican party. in
line with its record has as real party
Of progressives and reform in Iowa,
stood for the Improvements of the
highways Of the state, wherever this
can be done without increa sing the tax
burdens of the people. AS in the con-
struction and development of the
splendid railroad facilities Of the
state, when we favored the building Of
as many lines as people of Iowa want
ed and could pay for, so now in the
building Of roads we favor just as
good roads as the tax payers are able
and willing to pay for and we advo-
cate the creation of the legal machin-
cry necessary to meet Their desires and
to provide for the payment of such i'm
provements as they may decide on.
recognizing the principle of local self
government.
The question in Iowa today is not
how to raise more money for road
building but to apply the road taxes
in systematic way to the building
Of permanent roads. Our present con-
dition Is due to the haphazard and UNI
systematic method in vogue in perhaps
100 townships in the state
Temperance and Morality.
This is great and wonderful age
In which we live. An age fraught with
surprising accomplishments
What man among US ever expected
to see a dry plank inserted in a dem
ocrauc platform and acQuiesced in
without protest by the democratic dele
gates from the states of Davenport
and Dubuque? Verify, the day of mir
acles has not passed.
When l turn to the speech Of the
temporary chairman of the democratic
convention, l find an explanation. l
quote from his speech: The liquor
question, l believe, has been settled in
this state by adoption of statutory pro-
hibition. The time has come when it is
no longer a question whether you are
for prohibition or against prohibition.
We welcome our democratic friends,
to the position they have finally taken
along side of the republican party upon
this question, even tho it has taken
them sixty years to arrive at their
present position, hypocritical as it is,
IN the face Of the fact that probably
three-fourths Of the delegates were OPP
posed to the plank accepted.
The republican party first became
dominant in the Iowa legislature in
1886 it then amended and strengthened
the prohibitory liquor law which the
whig party had enacted. True TO its
tradition and principles in opposition
to all sumptuary legislation, the demo-
cratic party in its platform in 1858 de-
manded the repeal of the prohibltory
liquor law.
Always Favored Liquor Restriction.
All thru the intervening years
whenever the subject has been dealt
with the principal opposition has come
from the democratic party. The real
contest came in 1883, when the prohibit
tory amendment was declared invalid.
In that year the republican party
planted itself on the side Of the homes
of our own people in this contes:
against the saloon while the demo
cratic party Resolved, that we are OPP
posed TO constitutional prohibition.
- We favor a we'll regulated license
law
In 1886 and 1888, the republican leg
islature amended and Streng thened the
law. In 1889 the republican platform
declared prohibition the fixed policy
Of the state. The democratic platform
declared for license law
In succeeding platforms the republi-
can party declared against any com
promise with the saloon, the saloon an
outlay, no backward step while the
democratic party from 1880 thru the
years, has favored the repeal of the
| present prohbitory law local self
government and home rule, local OPP
ton law, in 1910. The republican par
| ty has a consistent record running
| thruout the years Of the administration.
| of public affairs, as a protector amt
| conservator of the home. Its wise rule
| has finally, Notwithstanding the per-
| sistent opposition of the democratic
party, driven the saloon from this
state. When the mulct law was re-
peaied by the Thirty sixth general as
sembly, the republican party furnished
| twenty three and the democrats four
| of the twenty-seven votes cast for re-
peal in the senate, while eleven of the
| fifteen democratic senators voted
against it. In the house, of the seventy
| nine votes cast for the repeal, sixty
| four were cast by the republicans and
| seventeen out of thirty-two democrats
| voted against it.