Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-15

will have to talk. He will have to say
whether, in the event the prohibition
amendment is defeated in November,
he will approve q bill wiping out sta
tutory prohibition and restoring the
saloon to the state. That Is the great
profit to result to the liquor interests
from Harding's election. With consti-
tutional prohibition overwhelmed ana
governor sympathetic with them
presuming the legislature has been
carefully looked after, as very likely
it has been-there will be nothing to
prevent them from undoing the work
of the last general assembly and even
going so far as to redraft the mulct
law, making it more TO their liking,
or to provide for local option. Mr..
Harding doubtless will prefer to tell
prohibition communities that Mr..
Meredith's road program is going TO
bankrupt them than explain the liquor
interests support Of his candidacy. He
can even do the same thing in wet
counties confident that every wet Will
be otherwise advised that Harding is
the man for them.
If Mr.. Meredith is going to have
chance at the governors chair he VIII
have to get the votes of republicans
and the democratic party of Iowa were
better proceeding on the theory that
it can't keep the vets in line FOR the
party's candidate than employing futile
effort to do so. while neglecting the
opportunity to get votes enough TO
elect from the other parties.
The Boes campaign is to be fought
over again in this election with the
positions of the democratic and re-
publican parties reversed and there
will be the same disregard of party
lines.
Theodore Roosevelt.
If the recent contest were to prove
Colonel Roosevelts last battle, as Ger
tain too -eager prophets assert he couid
afford to stand on the record.
Rarely in our history has one man
made out of his own personality ana
an issue al the outset but dlmly per-
ceved by his fellow countrymen,
greater. drawer or more marvellous pat
tie.
The Tribune does not believe that the
battle will prove permanently to nave
been lost. 1t believes that Colonel
Roosevelt has performed no more use
full or enduring service than in MS
championship Of what II holds TO be
true Americanism.
Having made the fight with Colonel
Roosevelt, the Trihune'is perhaps pet
ter able than almost any other newspa-
per to testify how unselfish was the
spirit in which he fought the campaign
and how ready he was Ia all times 10
sacrifice personal considerations to the
principles he sought TO serve and dl1
serve.
Men of that time believed the Lin
coin Douglas debates ended in defeat
for Lincoln. But those who came
thereafter perceived that the beginning
Of a new era in American history
dated from the hour when Abraham
Lincoln pinned Stephen A. Douglas to
the Freeport doctrine.
Colonel Roosevelt has made begin
ming in a fight that will go forward.
He has spent himself without stint or
thought in a cause he believed in. The
cause will go forward and men will al
WAYS remember his part in it.
The Tribune congratulates Theodore
Roosevelt on his patriotic, useful and
permanent service to his country in re-
cent months-New York Tribune.
Iowa and Drink.
The statement that intoxicating liq-
uors to the value CD of $4,000 per
year are consumed in Iowa is all bum
combe.
Iowa has a population of less than
$500, 900. The males over 81 years OF
age do not number more than one
fourth. or $4,000. Comparatively few
,,,op,aD are consumers Of liuuOr and
still fewer minor girls can be so classed.
The boys who drink anything, with few
exceptions compared to their total