Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-07


Democrat SO far is the only one Of them
who has awaited himself Of the oppor-
itunity of his lifetime.
TOO BUSY TO CELEBRATE.
lWaterloo Reporter.1
The Marion Register says Labor Day
was not very much of holiday be-
cause laboring men there, and in most
OF the other towns of the state, were
"as busy as bees" 1t was that way
here. Holidays are all right. and per-
lhaps we have too few of them. but a
good days wages counts for something,
too, and some times holidays can wait
while an unfinished job can not. 1t is a
good that work Is so plenty that men
can jingle dollars in their pockets, for
they make better music than enforced
idleness can furnish.
GOT IT ALL BACK.
TWaterloo Courler.l
Two LaPorte City men came to
Waterloo last night AS they stepped
from b., C. r. & N. train one OF them
was relieved of memorandum book
which he carried in his trousers pocket.
He didn't know who took it, but on dis
covering his loss he yelled like q CO.
manche and announced that the prop
erty was of no use to ony one but him.
self. But he misrepresented the facts
when he said 1t, for the book contained
two $40 bills besides a letter which he
claimed entitled the holder to 81, 500 or
its presentation to certain bank in q
Montana city. This morning the prop
|erty was found near Casebeer's, where
the thief had thrown it. Nothing was
missing.
TIT FOR TAT DIVORCE CASE.
lAt!antic Telegraph
Mrs. f. p. Gothard was this afternoon
granted a divorce from her husband.
DR.. l.. III. Gothard. on the charge OF de-
sertion. This divorce was secured UNI
der rather peculiar circumstances. DIR.
Gothard first filed petition for divorce
and for $500 alimony. charging his wife
with cruel and inhuman treatment and
With threatening to take his life by
poisoning him. Mr.. Gothard filed an
answer denying all the allegations ii,
this petition on which divorce was
asked, and filed a cross petition fol
| divorce on the grounds of desertion
The hearing of this cross petition COM
| ing on today, and no defense being
made, Mrs. Gothard was granted di-
vorce. 1t is understood that DR.
Gothard is in Omaha.
GOOD FEATURES OF TRUSTS.
Washington Press.l
Here is man in business. He takes
a rival into partnership. That would
be legal, wouldn't it? The law would
have no right to say Nay to him in
that. Suppose they. in turn. add a
third competitor to the partnership, and
| q fourth, a fifth. n sixth, a seventh, un-
| til all the merchants in that line in this
town are absorbed. AT what poin,
would the law step in with its veto?
The grocers might combine likewise
4 and the hardwaremen. the jewellers, the
druggists, the stove men, the editors 81
Ial. Would such combinations be iiega
Tor against public policy, provided that
lin pooling and saving heavy expenses In
Operation of the trusts, they did no.
put UP prices and practice extortion'
1 Certainly not. Now that il precisel,
what has happened in the cases OF two
of the biggest trusts in the United
States, If not In the Notwithstanding Oh
land sugar. They absorbed competitors
saved expenses, and we never had bet
tier or cheaper oil and sugar, did we?
A way should be found to deal witt
trusts If they become oppressive ant
mulct the public. But there is a dea
of nonsense said and written abou
combinations made for economy. IL /;
man may take one partner. why ma,
not he take fifty, 100 or 1000?
i If two men do not care to cut eacf
lothers' threats by competition. but pre-
sIfer to sell in common. whose bushes!
lis 1t?
4 The Farmers Federation of the Mis-
4 sissippi Valley, l. e., the farmers trust
.lhas been formed and elected officer
ii and manager. They mean to save ex
penses by abolishing the middle man
and save s21,000,000 in commissions
1 The manager says he can do all tn
! work for a million, thus saving twent.
millions to the farmers. How can sucl
a trust be Illegal?
Il Rev. Washington GLADDEN., in his las
!, little book. Tools and the Man,
sketches the collapse of competition II
. England In this century, that mad
capital savage and degraded labor. an,
. Ihe halls the substitution OF combina
/ ton as benefcent from the standpoin
, both of political economy and Christi
! anity, calling "co-operation the logic o
!. Christianity" He would agree witt
!, one of our leading business men VIII
j, always says competition is hell" 9TH
!, principle of competition is the law q
, the survival of the flttest: 1t is the la,
OF plants and brutes and british men
but 1t is not the highest law of ciyilize
society: another and higher principle
the principle of good will. the principl
E of mutual help, begins at length to CO
e Ioperate. The struggle for existence, q
Mr.. Fiske says. must go on in the lowe
E lregions of organic life; but as a deter
j mining factor in the highest work &
evolution, 1t will disappear with tn
/ progress of the race" This IL precisel
g the end at which Christianity aims. II
work in society may be summed u
: largely in this statement: 1t seeks
t lstrengthen the principle Of co-operatio
i among men. and to hold in check tn
. principle Of competition. Chris
b ltianity teaches that the employed an
! the employer are not only brethren. bt
' that they are also partners in business.
He believes the wage system
Idoomed, bound to be nodded by prom,