Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-03

been Interested in the cost OF con1modi-
ties to the man who has to buy, has
asked the T.-R. some pertinent guess
tons Which II is unable to answer He
asks u Mr.. Bryan says trusts ruin
individuals by underselling them, how!
can he state that everybody. the public
contributes to the ill-gotten gains of
the trusts? He wants to know how
trusts extort the people by selling
goods cheaper than the same gooGs can
be bought for elsewhere.
Rev. Hicks November storm IS two
days overdue. with prospect of fair
weather ahead.
The Illinois Audubon Society is about
to checkmate the milliners by securing
an amendment to the game laws that
shall make i. an offense. with penalties,
for any one to possess any part of the
wild birds now protected by the law
some OF the milliners have contended
that part of a bird was not a bird.
The moon will also be fun on the
9th.
a national good roads convention will
be held in Chicago November 1924. 1t
ought to be largely attended and the
roads should be improved. If Rryan is
alected the crowd of walkers would ap-
preciate them. Ii Mckinley succeeds
again there will be a greater demand
for good carriage Nays.
The Galveston relief fund has. reached
81. lfo36S. from which IL will be seen
that the people are still generously re-
membering the stricken city.
The public debt statement shows a
decrease of nearly 5000. 600 for last
month, which is another evidence oil
Mckinleyism.
The fact that Bryan has been giving
no attention to his home state Indicates
that he is either confident of victory or
anticipates defeat. Which is it? The
Nebraska republicans are counting on
a victory for Mckinley.
An old veteran of Marshalltown. Mr..
Jud Garfield, called al this office to ex-
press his Indignation a I Bryan,s INSULT
ing charge against the high minded
citizenship of this country in his warn
ings of "militarism. Mr. Canfiell said
hat Y, ,1,
storious army of million men, the best
trained soldiers the world ever knew,
was modified under a general the men
idolized and yet not one word MAS ut
tered by either army or general about
Selling the government or establishing
a monarchy. Not one man in all that
million would have followed his general
in such an enterprise. They were cit;-
zen soldiers, as are the boys from Iowa
now serving in the Philippines, and 10
charge them with conspiring against
their own government and against the
freedom of their fathers and brothers
at home makes Mr.. Garfield boiling
mad. as Well it might.
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Imports into the United States from
Porto Rico have rrebled and exports 10
the island quadrupled since the new
tariff Went into effect. from which ii
may be seen that the latter is not an
embargo on trade
In the first nine months Of 1900 the
Michigan railroads earned s2.sos07s
more than for the same period last
year Another link in the prosperity
chain.
The members Of the Woman's Kelley
Rescue League In Chicago declare that
drunkenness is. on the increase among
all classes Of women in that city. One
reason for this may be found in the fact
that "all classes are numerous there.
Minister WI Ting Fang said truly in
his Carnegie Institute address in Pitts
burg that True greatness does not lie
in the extent OF territory nor in the
strength Of battalions, hut in the char
Eacter of the people. !"
SIX Frightfui Failures.
Six terrible failures OF six different