Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
LOCAL COMMENT

The city water In Marshalltown Is
free from typhoid germs and we have
no typhoid that can not be traced to
foul wells on private premises, but our
city water is often as thick as soup
and as brown as an autumn leaf when
the sediment in the mains is stirred
up. There should be more attention
given to purifying our city water Let
the vegetable growth be dissolved with
a harmless chemical and then let there
be more flushing Of the mains to clear
the pipes When our city water is
clear il is about the finest drinking
water ever placed before mankind.
When it is not it is due to our own
negligence.
If every farm in Marshall county
could hold farm sale like that short
horn sale at Melbourne and take down
over $4,000 for thirty seven cows and
heifers our land might easily be worth
$1,000 an acre. In fact, with the de-
struction Of herds in Europe and the
awakening that is on in South America
there is going to be a boom in the
thoroughbred live stock business.
Organization for protection against
the spread of swine plague in this
county is the right thing at this time.
United we will have hogs to sell, dt-
vided we will have them to burn. Let
there be the utmost cooperation in
treating herds economically and in OBJ
serving all the approved sanitary pre-
cautions. The T.-R. will gladly lend
it's medium Of publicity. When the
anti hog cholera association Is organ
lied the officers can talk to the farm
ers in this newspaper by merely fur
nishing the copy.
Farmers in the vicinity of Beaman
voted tax and bonds for a fine $685.
900 school. The school will be built
by some contractor. The bankers who
buy the bonds will pay the contractor
in cash. The people will move in and
use the school before their first tax
comes due, then they will pay a tax
each year for twenty years and have
the school to use while they are pay
ing for it. The taxpayer who moves
away or dies before the bonds are 2 id
will have paid for what he gets and
somebody else will take his place and
pay for the remaining years. Now, sup
pose bonds had been issued and fine
graveled roads had been built with the
money all around Beaman. The taxes
that are being paid now and which
will be paid anyway would be suf-
flcient in twenty years to pay off the
bonds just as the new taxes are going
to pay for the school. People would
| H., r. ~, %I0S oil
the time they are paying for them.
But then bonds for roads seem like
something new in Iowa. However. if
the same taxpayers who have decided
by their votes to build this new school
wanted to vote to anticipate their own
road taxes for better roads they ought
to have that right under the law. ought
they not?
State Secretary Parsons. Of the Y. NJ.
c. A., was in the city this week and
said that prominent banker in Sioux
City had just told him that he had seen
evidences enough going thru his cloar-
ing house to convince him that there
would be $4,000 Of brewers money
spent for Harding In this campaign.
There are some republicans who think
that there Is no saloon issue involved
in this campaign. Why, then, Is ev ry
whiskey selling druggist. every wet
democrat, most pool hall ,proprietors
ali shouting for Hardirg7 At every
conference Of republican managers tho
report Is made that there may be wet
democrats enough for Harding to Off
set dry republicans who are going to
vote for Meredith. Why Is this?
There are more dry republicans in
Iowa than there are wet democrats.
The reason is that too many dry re-
publicans fail to realize what is going
on in our state politics. The saloons
were driven out Of Iowa less than
year ago. Is anybody simple enough
to believe that they are not in politics
to get back again? Didn't Harding
confer conf1dentialiy by letter with the
political agent for the saloons when he
wanted to run for lieutenant governor
and didn't the Iowa Liquor Dealers
Association send out letters urging sa-
loon keepers to vote for him? There
was the Dubuque Mailing Company's
letter Offering the services of our own
local saloon keeper, Mr.. Clifford, 80
that proper arrangements could be
made for the selection of first class
candidate from the Marshalltown dis
trict to represent us at the next legis-
lative session" The vets are going to