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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
NOT A WAR ON TRUSTS.
President Roosevelt Plans No Cam.
paign Against the Trusts.

Paign Against the Trusts.
Washington, May 13.-President
Roosevelt's close friends have found it
wise to say that he has no intention in
engaging in an indiscriminate war up
on the trusts. The actions against the
Northwestern merger and that against
the beef trust have led to a series of
wild stories regarding the intention of
the administration. The president is
no friend of monopolies, but he is not a
socialist nor an anarchist, and he has,
his friends say, no disposition at all to
start in on general warfare against
corporations.
1t easily would be possible to begin
proceedings against the Standard Oil
Company, the sugar trust, the different
coal trusts, the copper trust and doZ-
en- other modern corporations, to say
nothing of the steel trust, and in each
case the prosecution could be initiated
with general popular approval.
The proceeding against the merger
was instituted because that combina-
ton OF railroads was made during the
present administration and because 1t
appeared q fragrant defiance or the
Sherman law. In the case or the peer
fruits there was sudden and violent
advance in prices, resulting in great
popuIar discomfort and a demand TOR
governmental action.
The law officers of the administra-
ton feel. however, that it is one thins,
To institute suits and quite another
thing to win them. They would prefer
to get a little start with the ilglgatlon
already entered on because 1T is largely
along untried avenues.
Thus far the Sherman ANTITRUST law
has never been appealed to successsui
ly for the actual prevention OF the OPP
Grafton of a modern trust corporation.
II forced the dissolution of the eastern
trunk line pool, and in few isolated
cases enabled the government to cheek
corporate greed to a slight extent.
on the whole it has not been APP
nealed to except indirectly, and the
attorney general and his associates
| have a large amount Of work pefore
them in getting up the testimony and
preparing the pleadings both in the
merger and the beef trust suits. IN
der the circumstances, therefore, they
are not hunting for more work OF the
same kind.
Those in a position to know say that
the people should be on their guard
against statements that the president
is preparing to prosecute one trust
or another. On the contrary, 1T is a
significant fact that the proceedings
lin the beef trust case are entirely IN
the nature of bill for an injunction
If entirely successful these proceed
ings would merely pave the way for
some other step.
The beef trust could dissolve today
lit is said, and upon its reorganiza
ton new injunction suits would have
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
why NOT A GOOD ROADS SUBSIDY.

Large appropriations for public
buildings and for river and harbor i'm
provements should suggest to the ag-
riculturists the feasibility of federal
road building. The point has been made
in congressional debate that 1t is quite
as much the duty of the government to
care for the highways as it is to devote
large sums to alleged Improvement of
minor streams ard half forgotten har-
bors without commercial Importance
and which ships never enter.
The Importance of good country
roads is not merely of local but of ma
tional Importance. Almost every pound
of the outging freights of railway and
steamship lines is first hauled or driven
over these country roads, and much of
the incoming freight distributed among
consumers over the same highways.
The recurring equinoxes invariably
bring about scarcity and a rise in val
ues of farm products thru the difficulty
OF Transportation over bottomless mud
roads. More freight is hauled each day
over the country roads of Iowa than is
received or shipped from two-thirds of
the so-called harbors of the United
States in year.
There is a precedent for national
road building in the construction of the
old national pike that stretched from
st. Louis to the Potomac. 1t was 500
miles long and crossed the boundaries
of seven states. Government interest
in 1t passed with the stage coach and
the freigiters' wagon, but the memory
Of its efficiency and the precedent 1t
established still remain.
! The necessity for governmental SUI
pervision and encouragement in road
making is as patent as its duty in the
division of forestry or any other public
department. Every one recognizes the
propriety of its supervision of the great
railway lines and many counsel gov
eminent ownership of the great AFTER
les of transportation. Attention and
aid to the tributary highways that
make railways possible would seem to
be in the line of public utility The
government can not build hard roads
for the whole country, but it might SUI
pervise and assist in such construction.
A good roads subsidy would surely
meet greater public approval and inure
more fully to the pubic good than the
one recently proposed in the benefit OF
steamship transportation lines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
NO EXTRA SESSION WANTED.

The destruction by fire of the school
for the blind at Council Bluffs has sl'-
en- rise to a very urgent need for large
sums of money with which to rebuild
There is a sum of only $4,000 or there
abouts at the disposal of the executive
council not otherwise appropriated ana
it is estimated that more than TINS VIII
be required to erect temporary buildings
for the school. The legislature just
convened will not meet again in regular
session for two years and in view Oh the
burned schools needs the governor has
been considering the ACCESSIBILITY ofcall-
ing the legislature together in extra
session, but the citizens of Iowa earn
estly hope that some other escape from
the dilema will be found. If the leg
islature was bound by law or could be
bound by individual pledges of It's
membefs not to consider any bin other
than legislation for the consideration
of which it was called into extra ses-
sion, there would be little danger but
Just now Iowa is doing very well and
the less legislation it has the better.
Legislatures cost money and often their
power to do harm greatly exceeds their
ability to do good. If the officials In
charge of the state administration can
devise some method of caring for The
unfortunate school without an ex IRA
session of the legislature they will win
loud paeans of praise from the citizens.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

St Stephen church at Winnipeg. He
comes of good Scotch Presbyterian
stock, his father, a Highland minister,
settling in the Canadian wilds some
forty years ago. His mother, it is
tai power and keen spiritual vision
who, at the age of %. declined the prin
cipalship of Mt. Holyoke seminary, to
accompany the Scotch pioneer.
The author son, who is still young
man-not over 40-was born in the
Highland settlement of Glengarry in
the peninsular strip of eastern Ontario
known as Indian lands" where the
scene of his story is laid. Here his boy
hood was passed, amid the rough life
he portrays in his books, an experience
which doubtless furnished the inspra-
ton for his stories, and lends to them
the convincing touch of reality.
Like many other successful authors,
his first book was an accident, his de-
sire for mission funds forcing him into
literature. His work lay among the
miners and lumbermen of that re-
gion. He wanted TO improve their con-
dition, but the funds from the mission
airy society We're too meager to enable
him to carry out his plans. Discour-
aged, he applied to an old college chum,
an editor in Toronto, who advised him
to raise mission funds by writing a
story for his paper, The Westminster.
The story was written, BLACK Rock,
with which the editor was delighted,
and he asked the author what name to
sign. Fearing public criticism, the
minister chose a pen name from his
native country, combining the first syl-
liable from each of two words-Canada
and northwest-into the word Can
nor" which, by mistake, was set up as
"Connor.''
Rather Irish" said the author, but
live UP to it,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

effect In motlerating, If not actually
settling, the questions in dispute be-
tween Canada and the United States.
Should the Yukon, for instance cone
to be largely settled by Americans, the
persent vexatious boundary question
would not be nearly so bitter as if IS
now. For the dispute would become
one between Americans on the one side
and American Canadians on the other
side. and therefore, in sense, it would
be a domestic American question.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
David C0ulton.
Plumber :.
% South First Street.
RosaMarlianil
President of French SINCERE
Association of Chicago.

is the case Of Mrs. Susan Lee, Of Demop-
oils, Ala, who suffered nine years and was
cured by taking Wine of Cardui. She
writes:
II have been sick fof nine years and was
not able to do my housework for over five
years. Since ! have been Using your fenae-
dies have been able to work. Ihave only
used three bottles of Wine Of Cardui and
package Of Thedford's Black-Draught.
can do almost as much work now as evef
did. Icannot say enough about youf medi-
cine. will come to the fact-I am feeling
almost young again"
After reading the letters of Madam Mar
liani and Mrs. Lee, the only reasonable
thing for an afflicted woman to do is to goto
her druggist and secure bottle of Wine
of Cardui and begin the treatment at once.
You can begin the treatment today in the
privacy of your home. The change for the
better will begin within week. The Vino
strengthens the weakest link first. Natur-
ally that is where an improvement would
be most noticeable.
Do not go on suffering for years like
Madam Marliani and Mrs. Lee. Those
anxious years are gone-lost when they
should have been enjoyed in health. Every
day you hesitate is lost and gives to useless
suffering another day of your life. If you
need advice write The Ladies Advisory De-
partment, The Chattanooga Medicine Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn. Describe your symp-
toms as fully as possible and free letter
of advice will be sent you. All druggists
sell 81. 90 bottles Of Wine Of Cardui.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
National Baptist Anniversaries at St.
Paul. Mimi. MAY 1920,

For the above event the Minneapolis
& St Louis and Iowa Central railways
will sell tickets at all points on their
lines at rate of one fare, plus 81, for
the round trip. Tickets good for re-
turn, leaving st. Paul or Minneapolis
not earlier than May 81 nor later than
May 80. BY depositing tickets with the
Joint agent on or before May q and pay
ment of 80 cents, return limit may be
extended to and including June 80.
This will be grand opportunity to see
and hear the leading men and women
of the Baptist Society. For further pax
ticulars see your local ticket agent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
he brought. The same is true in the

to be brought. The same is true in the
merger case, and it is an open secret
that the parties in interest in that big
railroad deal long ago decided that
they would not fight the government,
but merely would keep the merger
alive pending the settlement of large
and delicate stock transactions.
When this mechanism of Wall street
is adjusted the merger will be dis
solved and new corporation organ
lied, which will be skillfully put OUT
side the pale of the anti trust law.
The bill filed in the beef case seekl
to secure an injunction, but no step
was taken looking to a criminal pros
ecution Of the various parties to the
trust
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Two sawmills are busy near Conord-
Ia, Kas, cutting cottonwood trees into
lumber. Their appearance recalls to a
Kansaspaper the storyo the old-timer
who offered to make affidavit that he
saw twelve inch cottonwood board
shrink at the rate of one inch in width
each year for thirteen years. He then
lost track of 1t, but Is firmly of the
opinion that it is still shrinking.
elected judge of the probate court of ST.
Louis, three years ago, the compensa-
ton was changed from the fee system
to salary of $4,000 year. Since then
he has refused to draw his salary,
claiming the act was unconstitutional.
He brought suit against the city for
fees .,1ounting to $S6.o 900 and won his
case in the supreme court. fighting on
his own ground, as it We're.
$50
Colonel Bryan is about to start again
for Cuba to attend the Inauguration of
|
farther this time than Tampa he is going
to know the reason why.
While this disaster in Martinique is
almost too terrible for contemplation,
there is a degree of consolation in the
evidence that the destruction was SO
swift. The thought that many victims
might have been slowly tortured to
death added to the horror of the earlier
news.
The body of General w. S. Rosecrans
| is in accordance with the wishes of the
| men whom he led at Stone River. -Four
| years after his death impressive cere-
monies are to be held at Arlington, with
lpresident and cabinet, committees from
the senate and house, and officers of the
army, in attendance. Rosecrans, IN his
| lifetime, was the subject of much con-
troversy, but to the Army of the Cum
berland and to the people who studied
| tie h"to,y of the war he was always
| the most lcSdl VI SOlulSIS anu OilS VI
the finest battle figures in the war fol-
| the Union.
-Four hundred colleges make reports
to the National Bureau of Education OF
the United States. These reports show
that $15O,00O,G0o is invested for the sup
port of these 400 institutions, and tia,
the valuation of their buildings
grounds and apparatus is $16o,o00,-
600.
There is a saying among politicians
| (and the two years 1886 and 1898 are
said to be the only exceptions since the
close of the Civil war to the rule), thai
/ the party in power is never able t.
maintain it's control of the house o.
REPRESENTATIVES in the elections COM
ing in the middle Of presidential
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

posed that the hornets IN that Mime
a,olis speech were all dead ones, but
the way he put his foot into 1t, and the
whole high tariff party looking on, in
dicates that he knew better" says the
Davenport Republican. The Iowa City
Republican" it continues, has been
stung eleven times already, and is
jumping up and down and slapping it
self and yelling for mother, until it
looks as tho it still had m"
To the Cedar Rapids Republican 1T
would seem that somebody is playing
the incendiary-to make the state put
up new and modern buildings. The
state board of control has been eX-
tremely unlucky in having guarded
against fires. If private people were as
careless whole towns would be burned
up every day"
The Mason City Globe-Gazette says
Ora Williams would make an ideal sec
retarv for the Iowa ST. Louis exposition
commission.
The Creston Advertiser thinks thai
while it must be conceded that many
have left Iowa who hi We improved ;heii
safe to state that the majority have
failed to do SO. The way in which The
farmers are holding to their possessions
indie ties that they are beginning t
realize that they have a good thing"
The Burlington Hawkeye notices that
"Tae .oes Moines Leader continues Il
publish revised versions of Governor
Cummins innermost thoughts, greatly
to the governors discontinue. 1t i:
hard to shake off truly independent
organ
The Clinton Herald suggests thai
congressman, should plan to have theil
free garden seeds arrive at the same
tim. the rain comes. They would bs
mere appreciated"
According to the Des MONIES CAPITA
Senator Carmack is just about a:
much of a match for Senator Dolliye,
in debate as the Hon. Jim Kay Jones
would have been for VIM. e. Glad
stone"
The Clinton Age (denl.) asks "Wh.
should we waste sympathy upon bar
barians who have visited upon thei
own heads the only penalties that viii
have any good effect upon them? Ant
why should we severely condemn
American officers or soldiers for meet
ing the worst F'ilipinos upon their owl
| ground and removing them at once?"
The Sioux City Tribune has "a sus
picion that the chief differences be
tween McLaurin and Tillman Is thei
politics"
| The Des Moines Leader observes tina
Thus far, it has not been reported
that the beef trust has driven anybod.
to those islands in the South seas wher
long pig is the piece dc resistance"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says an,
son City now has two dailies of on
shape and one kind of makeup an
both should be radically changed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

When you awake in the morning
feeling like the end of misspent life,
your mouth full of fire and your soul
full of regrets, take Rocky Mountain
Tea. Great medicine. Mcbride & VIII
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

The Boone Republican notes that ut
has been a long time since we have
heard anything about Hubbard's goat
farm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

TIL. Ottun1wa Courier says Tillman
will talk every northern democrat in
congress out of his job if he is per-
mitted to continue using his mouth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

governor cummins may have sup
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says ma
son City now has two dailies of one
shape and one kind of makeup and
both should be radically changed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14

According to the Des Moines Capital
Senator Carmack is just about as
much of match for Senator Dolliver
in debate as the Hon. Jim Kay Jones
would have been for VIM. e. Glad
stone"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-08
MATTERS POLITICAL.

The Democratic party has received
another blow-Senator Teller has join
ed it.-Philadelphia ledger.
George Fred Williams doubtless wir-
ed Colonel Bryan something about be-
ing baffled but not beaten.-Omaha
Bee.
That Maine Republican victory will
look like a nickel with a hole punched
in it when Texas is heard from.-Waco
Herald.
Now that Michigan Republicans are
dropping their Smiths, the Democrats
are taking to the Woods.-Detroit Ev-
ening News.
Mr.. Murat Halstead wants to go to
Congress. Having tired of writing his
tory he would make some.-Baltimore
American,
The only thing in favor Of the Demo-
cratic party this tail is the fact that
Professor Andrews is denouncing it,
Montana Daily Record.
The shaky Republicans in Iowa are
the Democrats the only
comfort they can find anywhere in the
present sampaign.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-08
DRUG CO.
FORT STREET
THE POLE HUNTERS.

1t will take Peary some time to get
his feet warm.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
1t seems that Lieutenant Peary might
have gone farther and done worse
Detroit Evening News.
Millionaire Ziegler seems to regard
the discovery of the north pole as a
warm roposition.-Detroit Tribune.
Peary has apparently left enough Of
the north pole to constitute an incen-
tive for another trip north.-Pittsburg
Times.
Well, whether he found the pole or
not, Pearys expedition was to some ex-
tent successful. He got back.-Boston
Globe.
Not the least of the horrors of arctic
exploration is the inevitable fight
among the returned eXplorers.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
Reading Explorer Peary's dispatch
between the lines we learn that the
north pole is still doing business at the
old stand.-Detroit Tribune.
Explorer Evelyn Baldwin is finding
his native land such war mplace that
he will be too much enervated to risk
another arctic trip.-Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
When Lieutenant Peary reaches
as to the range of temperature in the
far north during the last few years.
st. Louis Star.
With both Peary and Baldwin return
ing from the frozen north, the quantity
of polar explanations soon to be Civ
en- to the public is something prodigi-
American.
Peary is coming back to the United
States; but when he learns the prices
of coal here the advantages of the
north pole as a winter resort may APP
peal TO him more strongly than ever
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Lieutenant Peary's dash for the
north pole has ended in another dash
for home. The north pole will go into
winter quarters again without having
any explorers initials cut in its bark
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Explorer Evelyn Baldwin is in for
bad quarter of an hour with Mr.. Zieg-
Ter unless he can show that hacker of
polar expeditions something more valu-
able than a collection of excuses for
his money.-Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-08
* CITIZENS DUTY.

Every man in free state owes a
duty to his state. This is a thing we
are very apt to forget. Especially is it
the case because we have lived for a
long time under form of government
when much, if not everything was done
for us. 1t is difficult to realize that we
must work ourselves, and must neither
delegate to others our privileges, nor
expect others to perform our duties for
as. A Republican form of government
calls for individual effort If its re-
wards Of liberty and freedom are great,
if it brings prosperity and happiness, it
also eXacts work and at times sacrifice
from it's citizens.
The positions in a Republic are not
paid highly as they are under a
monarchy or a Empire. The salary OF
the President of the United States is
very moderate. That of the members
of the Cabinet are stiI more moderate.
But men occupy those positions not on
account of the salary but on account
of the honor and of the power. The
federal government is our ideal and our
examplar, but the theory is the same
in a Territory as it is in the higher
sphere.
If the weather. class Of citizens do
not choose to take a hand in political
life, the offices naturally fall into the
hands of professional politicians, and if
such politicians run affairs to suit
themselves the substantial citizen need
not be surprised. The bar understands
this elsewhere, and has learned it's
lesson here. A position on the bench is
an honor, but as for emOlument very
ordinary lawyer can make more by his
practice in the courts, than he would
receive as a judicial salary. Men go on
to the bench not for the sake of the
emolument, but for the sake of the
honor and from a high sense of civic
duty. Men who seek the bench for it's
emoluments are apt to make very poor
judges.
The bar, as has been said, has learn
ed its lesson here, and so sharp was it
that it is not likely to be forgotten. The
mercantile section of the community
has also to learn it's lesson. AS bust
ness goes here, the salary of the Trea-
surer is no attraction to a first rate
man. There are scores of men in bust
ness who make five and ten times as
much as the Treasurer receives. But
it is not a question of salary it is a
question of honor and of civic duty. At
the present time it is of the highest I'M
portance that in the Treasurer's office
We should have a first class man. But
a first class man objects to the burden
of office, and points out that his person.
al interests are paramount. All this
may be true, but The Star would point
out that the management of the public
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-08

According to Mr., Ozawa, the knowl-
edge of Hawaii and the chances of the
laborer on these Islands are thorough
ly known through all parts of Japan
among the agricultural classes. To
them Hawaii appears as sort of Ell
Dorado from which most comfortable
income may be derived. Many of the
laborers come here and return with
their pockets well lined While many
spend their money at home and then
return here for more. Fortunately we
are an integral part of the United
States and cannot be asiaticized. Had
we remained Independent the Asiatic
wave would have curled over and over
whelmed US. Few seem now to realize
the danger we were in, but it was a
very real danger