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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
NAY GET An EARLY TRUST DECISION.

The supreme court of the United
States may pass upon the trust ques-
ton before it reaches the railway
merger and beef trust contentious, ac-
Cording to advices from Washington. A
case is pending in which decision is
expected early in October that has
very close application to the trust ques-
ton. 1t is one that involves the con-
stitutionality of the interstate lottery
act Of March 2, 1895. While the opin-
ion will finally determine whether or
in the United States thru express COM
panies, the case has a more important
feature, in that 1t involves the Ques-
ton whether the right of congress to
regulate is the right to prohibit, and
thereby hits the great problem that has
called for the closest study of our
statesmen in their efforts to frame a
bill that will permit congress- within
constitutional limits, to regulate and
fCOnlTOl COIllDllldllOllS VI SdElleti. AS
points urged are that lottery tickets
are articles of commerce.; that express
companies when engaged in interstate
commerce can be forbidden from trans
porting lottery matter from state to
state: that even if lottery tickets are
not articles of commerce, yet If con-
gress was of the opinion that their i'm
portation into this country or their pur-
chase and sale between citizens of the
various states and transportation from
state to state was injurious to inter-
state commerce, the power to regulate
such legitimate interstate commerce
includes the power to suppress. when
interstate. the traffic in lottery matter,
which, even if 1t be not interstate COM
merce, is yet detrimental to such COM
merce, and such an act of congress
would be constitutional.
It will be seen that if the court sus-
tains the contention of the government,
IL would be an Acknowledgement of the
power of congress to prohibit interstate
trade in articles of commerce and
would to large extent solve the trust
problem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
Raising Their Own Lumber.

sioux City JournalJ
The numerous old poplar groves in
Plymouth county are being turned to
account for other purposes than shade
by the owners this fall and as the re-
suit of an industry which is now work
ing among them man of the farmers
will soon be living in houses made of
the same trees that in the past have
given them shade and protection
against wind.
William Boyles and George Stewart
We're in Sioux City securing repairs for
Ia portable sawmill which they are OPP
Grating. They travel from farm to
farm in the country and contract with
the farmers to saw up the poplar groves
into lumber of all sizes. Many of the,
farmers realize from 10000 to $4,000
feet of lumber from the groves, while
one grove yielded 100000 feet. Only
the larger trees which in time decay
and break off at the top are cut down,
the smaller poplars being left for pur-
poses of shade and protection. The
poplar lumber is used for all building
purposes except for finishing. Many
new buildings will go UP in the adj
joining county as the result OF the
amount of lumber which is being
turned out
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

In stating that there is no profit to
the National banks in their circulation,
the proposed increase in bank notes in
wolves "a plan the bankers may be ex-
pected to accept only as a last resort
and to overcome a really serious strin-
gency.'
The Keolsuk Gate City is of the opin-
ION that ut is rare gift to be able to
say the right word at the right time in
The right place and in the right way.
The faculty was one possessed by the
late President Mckinley in an eminent
degree. His mantle in this particular,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
fractional Differences Defended.
Esprit Lake Beacon.]

|
Newspapers and politicians coca
sionally express the fear that the re-
publican party in Iowa will suffer on
account Of fractional differences. A
! factionai spirit has in state and nation
1 been more or less disastrous, and yet
lit is absolutely impossible 10 keep the
] party strong and useful without an ell
ement of leaven that may be identified
as factional. Harmony Is always
beautiful in theory and ofttimes help
| full in practice, but 1t may exist TO the
serious detriment of society and OF
| government.
Back in the middle ages there was
harmony in religioun. The Savonolas
the Luthels, the Calvins and the Wes-
ley intituted religious faction. Ther
is little faction in Russia, for faction,
with all its leadings toward higher
planes of human thought and activity,
lis not wont to exist where liberty Is
administered in homeopathic dose.
Disturbers of social serenity and royal
prerogative along in the last half OF
1.-THE eighteenth century made a lot of
fractional trouble in the American COL
Icnies. 1t made a rough house all along
/ neighbor and putting in peril legions of
fractional heads, and yet it was on the
whole u rather good movement.
1t men will quit thinking they will
make no ripples upon q serene polit-
zeal surface. If they will make them
selves believe that political conditions
once established are the right Thing
to continue Indefinitely harmony may
prevail until the forces of the dumb
| deeps break the monotony with natur-
| al eruption. But the process of real
Iliying action sets in motion mind and
matter and faction is instituted. The
| little letter added to the front end of ac-
| ton really makes very little difference
| in actual conditions, for we have little
action in the course of human affairs
| without what we are pleased to term
| faction.
There is faction and faction, perhaps.
| IF political or social activity is insti-
| tuted simply that certain men may take
| the places of certain other men the is
sues are 80 small and the ends so in
! significant as to make little lasting i'm
| preston. This kind of faction Is con-
ltemptble But when men differ upon
lines Of principle and proceed to fight
| out their differences upon the field of
digniiied discussion and honorable ac-
tion the timorous ones may possess
their souls in patience for the peril to
government and society is not serious.
There are two lines of thought run
| ming thru minds and movements in
Iowa, and the national field is much in-
volved One line is based upon the be-
lief that while prosperity abounds it is
unwise to question the policies of gov
eminent and unbecoming to offer coun-
sci to men who make our laws and adj
minister our public affairs. There are
people who feel that prosperity may
be promoted and the day of tribnlation
put off by strenuous political action
based upon the plain lessons OF praeti-
cal experience and moulded in con-
lformity with the uniform operation of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02

job. He can not live at the wage the
Slav or Lithuanian will work for, and
unless he lifts the foreigner up to a liv-
ing wage scale for himself he will have
the home and the trade his ancestors
have enjoyed for many generations. For
this are the miners striking. but the
very freedom and liberty under law
which grants to a man the right to
strike for better pay also grants to that
ma II or any other man the right to work
when he wants to. The liberty and
right of the free citizen is the same in
both cases, and the laws of the land are
right to work the same as in his right
to strike. No one has ever yet denied
the right to strike and mo troops We're
ever called upon to protect men in this
right, but when q strike of workmen is
in progress and attempts aer made by
robs. personal assaults or even murder
to prevent other men from WORKING,
and thus deny by mob violence the
rights which the law gives all men,
troops are often called upon to enforce
the law. Unfortunate as the case may
be and much as justice demands some
outside interference to arbitrate the
dispute, no man or set of men, union
or non union, have any legal right to
assault other men who want to work.
The right of organization for the pur-
pose of controlling prices of its product
is the same with a labor trust as with a
steel trust, but the right TO attack a
competitor with bludgeons and with
stones is neye, conceded to any or
ganiZation in civilized country. Ii
listen to the demands of this Phiiadel-
phia labor union, to be consistent he
should promise Schwab immunity from
arrest for setting fire to all independent
steel mills that dare compete with his
steel trust The parallel is perfect. We
are all of US hoping that some method
will be found to expose the cantins
hypocrisy of such men as Baer and
force an arbitration of these labor dis
putes, but no one can tolerate for a
moment interference with the military
in its command that law and order
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The chief obstacle to the moving OF
the hard coal crop is the bludgeon of
the striker.
The physician of Sam Small, the
evangelist, says Small's career as a
public speaker is over. Whisky and
morphine have gotten in their work ef-
| fectively.
Teeck S. Yen, a high caste young
Chinaman, is believed to be the first of
order in this country Yen is a gradu-
ate of Lehigh University and a civil en-
gineer. He received his first degree
last week in Covenant lodge No. 456, of
Philadelphia, his sponsors being Fred
crick Poole of the Chinese mission, and
Secretary Bond of the Christian
/ League.
Democracy has an issue but dislikes
to mention it, according to the Globes
Democrat. 1t is "agin' prosperity.
Marshall Field, of Chicago, is head
ing a movement to. colonize the num-
berless abandoned farms of New Eng
land with farmers and mechanics from
the Old World. Several railroads are
also interested in the project.
The public library of Cleveland, o.,
has hit upon a novel plan for the circu-
! a. n
to bring the benefits of the library to
that part of the population which hith-
erto has been unable to avail itself of
them. The plan consists in the estab-
lishment of small branch Libraries in
the shops and factories of Cleveland for
people who have not the time to go
ither to the main or the branch librar-
les to obtain books and other reading
matter. The plan originated with the
president of the library board, Edward
w. Horn, who prepared petitions to the
of the shops Says Mr.. Horn: The
trouble has been that workingmen We're
not able to get the books they should
have l expect by this plan to have the
public library establish these branches
SO that the men can get the books at
the places they work. 1t is q great i'm
convenience for man. to come down
town, or hunt up branch library after
working hours in the evening. by the
time he has made the trip a great part
of the evening is gone"
Governor Taft declares that the
United States policy is the Philippines
for the Filipinos. Ii he keeps this con-
stantly in view the islanders will be
satisfied.
Senator Platt of New York makes
the positive statement that the miners
strike will be settled within two weeks.
Mr.. Platt is regarded as a powerful pol
itician. Now let us see.
The following recent incident illus
trates the efficiency of the United
States mail service: AT Rock Island,
H.. there was deposited in a United
States mailbox letter upon the envel-
ope of which was pasted a picture evil
IDENTIFY representing some railway pas
senger agent This was all there Was
upon the envelope. That the picture
was OF some railway passenger agent
the postofiice authorities determined
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02

from the uniform, and, under a micro
scopic inspection, discovered that the
cap bore the inscription, Chicago "
Alton Railway Passenger Agent. Up
on reference to Il Chicago q Alton rail
Way folder, i'm which appear the pic
lures of depot passenger agents, the
postoffice authorities discovered that
the individual to whom the letter was
addressed was Price Nj. Taylor, depot
passenger agent at ST. Louis. The letter
was forwarded. reaching MI. Taylor
three days after it was mailed in Rock
Island.
Editor Purcell, of the Hampton
Chronicle has been experiencing bit
cause he refused to retract a news item
that WAS thought To be true a woman
attacked him. Tom just took the whip
away and refused TO prosecute, which
was an evidence of his good judgment
and chivalry.
A phiianthropc lady visited the asy-
says BROOKLYN Life. and displayed great
interest in the inmates. One old man
particularly gained her compassion.
and how long have you been here,
my man." she inquired.
Twelve years. was the answer.
do they treat you well?"
Yes
DO they feed you well?"
Yes
After addressing a few more ques-
tons toshim the visitor passed on. She
noticed broad and broadening smile
asking the cause heard with consterna-
ton that the old man was none other
than DR. Clark, the superintendent.
She hurried back to make apologies.
How successful she was may be gath
cred from these words:
Il am very SORRY. Dir. Clark. will
never be governed by appearances
again.
A high military officer says the chief
result of the army and naval maneuv-
ers will show the weakness of the sys-
tenn of coast defense. If it leads to
needful changes it will be justified.
The Indianapolis News remarks that
there is not red-headed man in the
United State senate. TO establish this
contention 1t ought to get atfidavits
from soill, OF the white heads
We have boiled the hyiyant water.
We have steriliZed the milk,
We have strained the prowling microbe
Thru the finest kind of silk.
We have bought and we have bor-
rowed
Every patent health device.
And at last the doctor tells us
That we've got to boil the ice.
What to Eat.
A Pessimistic Outlook.-"Cheer up"
advised the optimist. ut is nine weeks
yet before winter"
"Huh.' answered the pessimist. Its
only about four weeks to fall house
cleaning" American.
Fond Mamma-Isn't baby getting
big? Just see how solid he is.
Papa-He does seem solid this morn
ing, and it's remarkable, because he
appeared to be all "holler" last night
Philadelphia Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
Eurnt,p 1902

business principles. This, and possibly
a good deal more, is involved in the diff
ferences existing. and here you have
your faction. 1t may be that neither
element is wholly right. Good men are
iconscientiously divided and uncom-
Portable distinctions arise. But 1t may
be safely assumed thaG the future Will
not suffer Some men may be deter
mined to avoid factional entanglcment,
and may worry for fear they may say
For do something that Identifies them as
belonging in one place or another. This
fear is idle and enervating. Let every
man pursue the even tenor OF his way.
thinking out his duty and doing it like
IA man. If this performance lands him
ton one side or the other of an inagin-
airy line let him thank God that he has
found Il place to work and make his
work count thru the agencies which CO.
operate about great results.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02

as in others, it is concluSively in evil
dence, has fallen upon his successor in
the presidential office. President
Roosevelt's utterances at various places
in New England. wherever he has spok-
en- during his tour of that section, have
been models of fitness and good taste
The recent transformation of two
Iowa democratic dalies into republican
newspapers leads the Davenport Demo-
crat to remark that 1T begins to look
as if the republicans of Iowa had en-
tered into a combination to get control
of all the newspapers of the state
The Cedar Rapids Republican notices
that men are of the opinion that just a
little bit of frost might benefit some of
the green corn, 1t would check unnee-
essary growth, and it is led to ask,
"But who can measure a frost so deli
cately that it shall do good and no harm
to a corn crop that is worth millions
of dollars
At the democratic state convention
Wednesday the Dubuque Telegraph
Herald declares The question which
the delegates will have to decide is
whether they shall reaffirm the Kansas
City platform or repudiate it. Failure
to endorse is tantamount to repudia-
ton. We would like to burn this fact
into the mind of every democrat who
has the interests of the great masses
at heart"
The Waterloo Courier says Mr.. Louis
Bcies has given no intimation yet as to
whether he will accept the proffered
democratic congressional nomination in
the Third district. The Courier is GER
tain, however, that Endorsement of the
Kansas City platform at Des Moines
this week would put his acceptance be-
yond the pale of possibility.
THE man who has money TO burn may
find it quite another thing to get coal to
burn"
The Burlington Gazette. DEM. charg-
es that Mr.. Charles A. Walsh's eNcep-
tional interest in retaining 16 to / in the
democratic platform is largely personal.
When Iowa. democrats refuse to con-
tinue their worship of the silver fetish,
the Gazette says. Mr.. Walsh's fat job
as secretary of the democratic national
committee will vanish. The Gazette
believes there is too much at stake in
the coming convention to give much
heed to Mr.. Walsh's personal appeal,
and it asserts that Mr.. Walsh can not
and should not be allowed to bolster up
his personal fortune at the expense OF
the party in this state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
THE BIRDS NATURAL PROTECTORS.

lies changing public sentiment
The
lin
and children than that Of
societies United States Then educate
Geds
children to look
Sod createtts Widnaan
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
THE TWO EXTREMES.

The struggle between coal miner and
operator now being waged in the an
thracite region has developed a debate
In which each participant is seemingly
& striving to reach the extreme of ridicu-
lous contention. 1t was only few days
ago that President Baer, Of one Of the
coal companies, made public his most
remarkable reply to an appealing
h Christian. His correspondent appealed
q 10 him as a Christian gentleman to per-
3 form the divine injunction as expressed
IN the golden rule and concede sone-
thing to the miners that a settlement
might be reached. In all seriousness
this coal operator replied: 1.-THE rights
and interests Of the laboring man will
be protected, and cared for not by the
h labor agitators, but by the Christian
3 men to whom God in His infinite wis
dom has given the control of the prop
erty interests OF the country" This as
founding proposition for wage eaners
I to leave the matter of price for their
labor to me and God, coming from the
Es0perator, elected the full measure Of
public condemnation that 1t merited.
q proposition just as ridiculous. The
Central labor union of Philadelphia has
EAppealed to the governor of Pennsylva-
EIda to revoke the commission of Cen
eral Goblin because Of his shoot to kill
-sOrders and have him tried for threat
kening the lives OF citizens OF the state"
The me and God proposition of Pres
tident Baer was wild enough, but this
Halter Is scarcely less sane. There
fought to be no discussion over the right
lO1 lab0rtng men to strike, to quit work
I'm g body If they are dissatisfied with
t1ieir pay. Their labor is all they have
10 sell. and the idea of asking them to
4 leave the matter of price entirely and
absolutely to the man who is trying to
buy 1t at a profit could find a parallel
I, pnly In the man who allowed the other
fellow to name the terms of a horse
u trade. President Baer made himself
Extremely ridiculous when he suggest
ID such a thing, but how much better
lave these leaders of organized labor
lone! When rioting became so violent
hat civil authorities were powerless
n maintain order the troops We're
allied. For two weeks or more they
81 ave endeavored to enforce observance
the law. but, being themselves at
Acked with stones and insults, their
kneral has publicly announced that
be soldiers will maintain order, even
they have to shoot to kill. Is that not
hat they were sent there for? No
IAN gets shot unless he persists in
biting in defiance of the troops, and
hat right has any one to ask of the
wernment that the severe penalty
all not be inflicted if no, other meas
will avail?
sympathy Of the public is almost
1T IN favor Of the striking miners
their demand for more pay. 1t is
Ass. ntty Well UNDERSTOOD tnats the coal
snpanies are trying to pay dividends
Fictitious capitalization or unwar-
hted profits to the railroads that haul
coal, while cheap labor of southern
rope has been imported for the last
hnty years to crowd out the Ameri-
miner and crowd down the stand
S5Sas-s ware The American miner who
rols the union Is fighting for his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
GEMS IN yERsEM..
The song of the wind.

In the rigging there's a drumming:
Can't you hear the ropes a-humming
And the cerie bo'sun's whistle through
the rain?
Can't you hear the voices crying
OF the poor lost souls undying
Who ever wander through the air IN
pain?
With o furry around and scurry away!
Obey, for the furry OF wtndO
With q leap and yell
1t sweeps DER the fell!
(aey. for the sweep Of the windy
1t clamors O or the town
And sweeps across the down
On the bleak, wild moorland, dancing as
it flies!
Can't you hear the spirits calling
And the ghostly echoes falling
As the driving cloud wisps scud across
the skies?
With chuckle close by and laugh
afar!
(1ey, for the laugh Of the windD
With whine OF despair
And a sigh through the air!
+ (Hey for the whine Of the windy
See the stately treetops bending
And the broken boughs descending
u
Can't you hear the forests wailing
And the wind fiends garment trailing
Over tree and bush and gorse and grasses
light?
with frolic around and rollic away!
(dey. for the frolic of windD
With the laughing shrek
OF an elfin freak!
f (Iey. for the freak Of the windy
Can't you hear the muttered rumbling
AS the wind sprites come a-tunbling,
A-ewearing and a-grurnbling In their fall?
Then the thundrous roll Of battle,
With Ats grim and ghostly rattle.
Then the pibroch wall. the banshee and
recall!
with a buster around and nuster
away
(Hey, for the buster Of windy
With deep bass note
From its brazen throat!
(Hey for the voice OF the windy
Literature.
Beyond.
WHY should mourn? The leaf unheeded
falls;
The iron pillar disappears in rust:
Time lays his hand upon the castle walls;
The silent sink and crumble into dust.
Why should grieve? Mysterious, alone.
Unknown l came. unknown III pass
away
And in departing for the Great Unknown
Leave naught behind my journey to be-
tray.
Why should care? The ages that are
past
Gent forth their best beyond the silent
veil.
Why should 1. then. when launching forth
at last.
Draw back in fear to face the Boatman
pale?
Why should I weep! Death follows after
Life,
AS doth the night the day! The awful
Has found it good to end some day the
strife.
And o'er the scene Deaths mystic cur
tain draw.
Why should shrink? No portal bars the
way;
No grisly want rights hope away from
me;
When out among the spheres on that
grea- day
MY loosened spirit leaps; 1 shall be free
Lowell o. Reese in San Francisco Bulle-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
A BOYS Wild Ride for Life.

With his family around expecting
him to die, and son riding for life.
eighteen miles, to get DIR. Kings New
Discovery for consumption. coughs and
colds, w. II. Brown, of Laes~ille. Ind,
endured DEATHS agonies from asthma,
hut this wonderful medicine gave in
slant relief and soon cured him. He
writes: Il now sleep soundly every
night" Like marvellous cures of con-
sumption, pneumonia, acknowledgement
colds and grippe prove its matchless
merit for all throat and lung troubles.
Guaranteed bottles SO cents and 81.
Trial bottles free at George P. Powers
drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
The T.-R. ExceIs All Others.


While many good things can be said
of IA number of Iowa's really great daily
newspapers, it must be conceded by
its competitors that the Marshalltown
Times Republican eNcels all others in
the completeness Of its Iowa news SER