Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-08
A LOTTERY sw1NDLE.

t9 y. VI. NOelkef, a FARMER OF Waterloo
township, has reported new swindlins
game being worked through the sur
rounding country. Just what the game
consists of is not made plain, as it is
not the kind of a racket on which Mr..
Voelker cared to risk any money for the
mere purpose OF eniightening the pub
lie.
The man claims to represent large
Wholesale jewelry house and is giving
away watches to advertise the firm
He operates a game of chance in con-
nection. He calls it lottery. Four
boxes are placed on little table. One
is shown to contain % cents, two are
empty and the fourth contains $65 in
United States money, of the denomi-
nations of three twenty and one five
dollar bills. The boxes are shifted and
for specified price man is allowed
to draw from the lot. If anyone in this
vicinity drew the $50 they have faileo
ito report the fact.
The alleged jewelryman says he deals
only with people who ride in buggies
evidently considering that qualifica-
ton necessary for easy plucking as well
as sign of prosperity. Mr.. yoelker
met the man last night near the Grout
place and this morning near the Stubs
farm.
DIR. HEBRON AND THE FACTS.
dubuque Times.l
DIR. Heron was not justified in as
serting, as he did in his sermon at Sum
nit Congregational church Sunday
evening that the clothing of 10000, 900
Americans was made III sweat shops
that the railroad corporations had
chosen Iowa's United States senator
giving the people no voice, and that the
railway companies, the Standard Oil
Company and the sugar trust had
robbed the people by watering their
stock
The people of Dubuque, an overall
center, know that the clothing of TO-
100000 Americans is not made in sweat
shops. They know that labor employed
in factories is far better paid than it
was half century ago while clothing is
far cheaper. The people of Iowa know
that the republicans In those counties Of
this state in which their party domi-
mates have been given full opportunity
to participate in their party's choice of
a candidate for the United States SEN
ate and that the will of the party has
been expressed in every county or dis
trict in which a convention has been
held. And the people of the United
states know, that the Standard Oil Conn
pany has cheapened the price of its
product to the consumer and that the
country is indebted for it's development,
its material prosperity and it's CONNER
cial greatness largely to the enterprise
of it's railway builders. They know that
with few exceptions the Americans who
have achieved great fortunes have done
so through inventions which have added
to the comfort of their fellows or in
creased their productive capacity, or by
the exercise of superior courage, enter
prise. foresight or executive capacity
which has enabled them not only tc
outstrip their competitors, but to find
new opportunities for labor and to in
crease the sum of the nations wealth
while increasing their own private for
tunes. Andrew Carnegie became
wealthy in the steel trade not by OBJ
tanning exemption from competition
but by outstripping competition. and
while doing SO he enlarged the opportu-
mites and the productive power OF
| American labor by efficient direction
|
truly as he who causes two blades oil
grass to grow where but one grew be-
fore. He started with nothing and whe1
his business capacity was developed
capitalized ii, or watered his stock with
his brains, until 1t amounted to a sun
which, while great, amounted to a par
only of the wealth he had created. Thi:
can not be attributed to the protection
from foreign competition accorded hin
under our laws since he was granted nj
i exemption from domestic competition
4 And as for the Standard Oil Company
1t has enjoyed no protection under thu
tariff nor from domestic competition
The same is true Of the railway com
panies, which, while paying small divi
dends on stock representing no invest
ment, have afforded the United State!
Ibetter rates and service than have beer
accorded under either public or privat,
Ownership In any other country, except
ling Canada, whose chief road has beer
subsidized by the government. tn,
railroads Of the United States are CAPT
TALKED at but small part OF the wealth
they have created.
But, while the American enterprise
and business skill which has creates
great private fortunes has ct the SAM