Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
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=, show of immense enthusiasm. And
they will be Of course. But it is also
sue gested that one reason for slipping
past St. Louis for instance, is that st.
Louis is decidedly German city. Care
vii! be taken TO avoid any such EN-
barrassment as came to the advocates
! of preparedness in st. Louis some tins
! ago. One OF these security leagues had
become active and invited Sir Hiram
| Maxim to deliver a speech before it on
! some phases of preparedness. which
| he did. But the enterprising advertis-
| ing managers did not study the polit
zeal situation, and it so happened that
on the very morning after the Maxim
speech the daily newspapers of st.
Louis contained big ads of the Maxim
company which is engaged in making
powder and other high explosives. For
some time the leaguers had to do ex
planning as to why the Maxim speech
and the Maxim powder ads came to-
sether.
Some time ago Chairman Thorne. of
the Iowa commission, sent to the news
papers short statement anent the
order of the reorganiZed interstate
commerce commission for an increase
in passenger rates on the railroads in
which he sharply contrasted the ex
cuse offered of need of more revenue
for the carriers with the facts of an
enormous increase in the passenger
revenues of the railroads and great er
dividends than ever before That lit
tie item went all over the country and
ne has received a great many commun-
| ications thereon. 1t seems that il has
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and jobbers of the country the people
| who employ large numbers of travelling
men and who pay out large sums for
| ransportation-and many of them are
in favor of some drastic action even
now to prevent further increase in
rates. Mr.. Thorne is Of the opinion
that If these people had manifested as
great interest in the matter when the
case was first opened as they do now
and had organized for an effective fgh,
the rate Increase might have been pre-
vented despite the powerful political
influences back of the movement. Ger
tain it is that a great many people are
just now much exercised over the sub
ject who could not be got to listen to
any discussion Of it year ago.
Another Startling discovery" has
been turned up by one Hammond a
detective who has eked out a precari-
Gus existence some years by attaching
himself to the temperance movement
He has just discovered, as soon as he
has lost his job, that there Is a big
blunder in the prohibitory amendment
proposed so that even If finally adopted
1t would be nugatory. He has found
out that the amendment Is attached
to, or made to follow, the old prohib-
tory amendment adopted thirty-four
years ago. and he says that since that
amendment is not in the constitution
the new one has no place to locate
itself. The trouble with the "discov-
cry is that it is nothing new and that
II Hammond had been around the leg
islature year ago he would have
heard that phase very much discussed
It was even strongly limited that sorns-
one who is interested in continuous ag-
| itation Of the subject might have pur-
posely slipped in q Joker In order to
prolong the prohibition fight indefin-
itely. But the fact is that members
Of the legislature whose devotion to
the prohibition cause can not be cues
toned, hid knowledge OF the apparent
discrepancy. They also asserted that
even IL the worst IL true still mere
direction as to where to placs an
amendment In constitution. wAOld not
defeat the main question. But 40 .
matter Of fact the old amendment: a
in the constitution and has never been
taken out. One court, II II true, d.
ciAfs11 s. :. =. &c ss=rss noi Dsen io5aiiy sub
mitted; but another court might -.
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