Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
Topics of the Times

notorious Johnston bill which sought
to abolish the highway commission
should preside at the Harding meeting
| in Charlton They both sat almost In
! view of a concrete bridge sixty Feet
long and only twelve feet wide built on
the main road under Johnstons super
vision without the aid or consent OF a
highway commission. Those culVerts
| which fell apart of their own weight
| were too far out to be used as exhibits
at the Harding-Johnston meeting.
The Ames Tribune thinks that the
| joke is on the Taxpayers League which
. has been resolving against bond issues
to be voted by the people when bonds
issued by boards of supervisors over
the state were increased more than
a million last year alone. The Tribune
| finds road and bridge bonds outstand-
ing in the ninety mine counties Nov.
l, 1914 a; S2,O25,51S whereas on Jan. l,
1916 these bonds had risen to $3,066. 232
and no vote of the people had been held
in any county.
Easement seems to have been the
chief adventurer and brains of the up
rising in Ireland which makes for
common speculation why the minor
offenders should have been inconti-
| nently shot in an off hand way. Why
! not big trial for them. also.
But when we consider it the presi-
Dental fram up of Ross the horse
jockey, were not more allied with horse
jockey methods than the candidacy OF
Estabrook. He was put in in the hope
that he'd be able to run fast enough to
pocket" a better horse.
What's the use Of cheap straw
berries and such like truck If the
sugar to sweeten them with cost more
than the berries? Isn't life just one
profane thing after another, anyway:
Today's sample of weather Is the
one to put in a general order on. Let
little sunshine in.
! One Of the things that set men
thinking over the capacity Of a candi-
abuse the same type Of political char
acter. as that which he bases his own
candidacy on.
The campaign of the suffragis has
| been carried on with dignity and
brains, it has been active and honest
and open. 1t ought to win. The con-
clusion Of the press of the state Is tina:
it will win. The test Will come at the
last hour. The women have one seri-
Gus obstacle to Observation-Disclosures
and neglect. The average man SYM
pathizes with suffrage and will vote
| it if he Is reminded properly Just be-
fore the battle, mother"
If we are looking for the full amount
of trouble with Mexico the way to
find it is to give the Mexicans the inn
| preston we are afraid of them by
| backing toward the border. We went
after Villa but the matter has grown
| more serious than the capture OF
particular brigand; it has come to the
point where vacillation means eternal
brigandage along the border unless we
settle the whole affair in the only way
it can be settled permanently.
.
| In the discussion of the exchange
list the financial argument is all in
favor of the abolishers, at least from
the daily sta ndpoint; but there is such
thing as fraternity and neighbour
ness in the newspaper field as well as
in the home neighborhood. The ex-
! change list becomes q newspaper cross
roads where all kinds of human gossip
and friendliness and spats take place
and where newspapers come to know
each other and friendships are created
and appreciation kindled between men.
It's pretty hard to estimate just what
that is worth at the price of print
paper and postage, isn't It?