Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-06-08
Needed Reform.

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Marshalltown citizens are now
agitating the stopping of sidewalk
pollution and demand that the
city council take steps and enact q
law on that subject. The citizens
of Marshalltown are determined to
remedy this nuisance hence they
call on their city dads for relief.
They reason that their main street
has long been habitually disgraced
by assemblages of uncoutb, idle
loafers in front of the business
houses aud that business houses
are greatly injured in their bust
ness by these assemblages, who
fill their doors and obstruct the
walks and 80 pollnte the sidewalks
as to make them disgusting. Mar
shalltown is not the only city in
the land that is cursed with this
disgusting habit and sidewalk OBJ
structing element. Boone can
double discount any city ON earth.
when it comes to sobac;o-squirt-
ing contest and we venture the as
sertion that not q spot es large as
a l6 to l dollar will be left UNI
covered with tobacco juice fifteen
minutes after the crowd of squirt
ers congregate. And when it
comes to taking possession of
stairways and halls and making it
utterly impossible for people to
enter their own buildings without
being compelled to run the paunt-
let of mob of this kind, Boone
can carry off the whole bakery.
These offensive distractions have
been going on for so long, AMI the
requests to remedy this nuisance
made 30 often in vain, that the
average citizen has become tired
of calling the attention of the law
makers Of the city tothe fact. The
ladies' federation might possibly
get hearing in this matter should
they take the subject under con-
sideration and we believe that
public opinion demands that the
nuisance should be stopped
Ro,- "a County Democrat.
wo aro o,.,, 'ca to add with all
possible assurance that me-. "er
Boomer nor Marshalltown has an
absolute monopoly on the above.
Missouri Valley has club of this
kind which is the superior of any
like organization in the state.
"Not many years ago." says q
writer in the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, "when an OK was slaughtered,
40 per cent of the animal was
wasted; at the present time moth
ing is lost but its dying breath.
AS but one-third of the weight of
the animal consists of products
that can be eaten, the question of
utilizing the waste is a serious
one. The blood is used in REIN
ing sugar and in sizing paper, or
is manufactured into door knobs
and buttons. The hide goes to
the tanner; horns and hoofs are
transformed into combs and but.
tons; thigh bones, worth $50 per
ton, are cut into handles for
clothes brushes; fore leg bones
sell for $50 per ton for collar but
tons, parasol handles aud jewelry;
the water in which bones are
boiled is reduced to glue; the dust
from saving the bones is food for
cattle and poultry; the smallest
bones are made into boneblack
Each foot yields a quarter of a
pint of meats foot oil; the tail
finds i i.salf Gin the SOUP" while
tbs bunch of hair -: At the end of
the tail is sold to the mattress
maker. The choicer parts of the
fat makes the basis of butterine;
the intestines are used for sausage
castings, or bought by gold beat
ers. The undigested food in the
stomach, which formerly cost the
packers of Chicago $4,000 year
to remove and destroy, is now
made into paper. These are but
a few of the products of abbatoirs.
Scraps unfit for any other use,
find their way to the glue pot, or
do missionary work for farmers as
fertilizer"
The menace of trusts to our
country is more fearful than that
of war. When all the industries
have been "cornered" by different
trusts, what is to hinder their
combination under one great alb
solute and tyrannous head? If 80,
the power sof this combination
wonldabegreater than that of the
government itself. Then legisla-
| tiOn wonl1 he confrollad tho in.