Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-22

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The Reflector should read Delivers
prosperity notes and take courage.
asks
1t is limited that Senator" Clark may
not present his credentials at all. He
ought to be credited with common sense
when 1t is rubbed into his face.
The Presbyterian general assembly Is
likely TO take up the question of creed
revision this week.
Formal announcement has been made
that Mayor Harrison Of Chicago will not
be the democratic candidate for COVER
nor Of Illinois, which is a sort Of quiet
endorsement OF Richard Yates chances
for election.
The Chicago Tribune shows that
nearly 10000 union laborers have left
Chicago to seek work elsewhere az the
result of the strike. which has for flf-
teen weeks deprived them of employ
ment. and that nearly 10000 more are
being supported by the labor council
and affiliated unions. The strike is re-
sulting in disaster to such men.
Admiral Schley believes in war. "Ar-
bitration," he said recently, lis the fad
of the moment, but war. tho 1t endan-
gers business for the moment. gives a
strong and hardy race such a race az
is most likely to endure
Porto Rico has been importing $20O0,-
900 worth of cotton goods every year,
but only $4,000 worth from the United
States. The new conditions will now
give rs this trade and so benefit our
cotton growers and manufacturers, and
Incidentally our whole population.
Joe Trlgg says in the Rockford Regis
ter: The tramp is again abroad in the
land. dirty, ill-favored. lazy, dishonest
and an all round liar as of old. They are
SOCIAL parasites, which no degree of ma
tioiial prosperity will ever rid the nation
Of. Only one thing will ever Danish
them and that is the making OF it Inn
possible for them to beat their way on
the railroads. If they had to walk they
would soon disappear This remedy
combined with universal stone pile
and bread and water diet would be ef-
fective.
The New York Sun prints in parallel
columns the speech made by Hon. Pat
rick II. Rahilly. at Cincinnati last week.
in nominating Ignatius Donnelly as the
Populist candidate for president and the
speech made by Hon. Daniel Dougherty
at st Louis twelve years ago in nolni-
mating Grover Cleveland for president.
Mr.. Rahilly's speech is an exact repro
auction Of the eloquent periods of the
famous Philadelphia orator. 1t shows
how the populists are proposing to APP
propriate and absorb democratic GROUND
this year.
oklahoma Cityis a thriving place of
upward OF 1000 people. with growing
industries, and has just begun the cree
ton of free library with the gift OF
$4,000 from Andrew Carnegie.
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service of Cuba, Of whom only 1O4 are
Americans. and these are chiefly in the
department headquarters and the Ha-
vana postoiTice There are 273 pos toftices
on the island. Of which 251 are in
charge of Cubans
The citizens of Rochester. n. Y, will
give Gen. Otis banquet on his return
home.
Aside from slightly better tone
Henry Ciews notices that there have
been no changes of Importance in the
stock market. Cold has been going
abroad in moderate quantities and. all
ftho the profits on present shipments
are exceedingly small, 1t would cause
l.little surprise if they continued for a
short time to come. gold being required
In Europe for special reasons. The re-
turn Of gold from the other side is a
bull factor in the8distance. AS soon as
the South African war is over, and its
end certainly now appears to be near
/ at hand, the gold movement will be re-
Isversed and flow this way from Europe
as natural sequence to liquidate the
large Indebtedness to this country.
When the Transvaal gold mines are
under British control they will supply
Europe with all the gold needed instead
! e drawing i fre.n here. This will IN
sure cheap money on both sides lndefi-
pitely and promises to make fuel for a
speculative fever in this market as well
las in the European markets
4 American exports to Asia and Ocean,
lea win exceed sloo.ooo,ooo during the
present fiscal year.
The Argentine government has sent
fifty young men from the different
provinces to be educated in the agri-
licultural schools Of the United States
lit will be a distinct gain for our own
as we'll as the South American govern
ment.
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