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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
UNRELIABLE DEMOCRACY

The easy facility with which the
democratic party of TODAY can i'm,
from one position to another and as
sumo an inconsistent attitude is the
subject of frequent remark and severe
criticism at present. Vacillation or a
tendency to waver in purpose is as
hurtful to political organization as Ii
Is to the individual in all relations Of
life. 1t does not inspire faith, but on
the contrary gives the public an idea of
a hurtful instability or trucking DEM
asogy. The recent remarkable tlops in
political attitude in Ohio and Iowa are
3attractinS wide attention. Under the
i caption of "A Wabbling Party the New
4 York Tribune points out the ludicrous
Y results of this change in a gra phic way.
d saying: The democratic party's .read-
Illness to stultify itself on the slightest
I1cOnceiyable provocation has long been
Han accepted commonplace In national
Hapontlcs. The party's capacity for set
Hting it's sails to contrary winds, for
Mghting under opposing flags and es-
Apousing strange and inconsistent caus-
I es has certainly been marvel, even in
This world of tangled purposes and
afeaseless contradictions. Fresh proofs
Sbf democratic f1ckleness and frailty
have been furnished this week in the
n absolutely self-reversing platforms
r. dopted by democratic state conven-
ions in Ohio and Iowa. BY curious
) coincidence the democratic organiza-
ssaions in these two states chose practi-
4lally the same day and hour to demons
arate their own shifting and unstable
siiews Of party policy. AS if to give the
3 Exhibition of Inconsistency an artistic
:SS!alance, the two conventions adopted
Tlatforms directly in conflict with each
either in spirit and sentiment. To cap
s3le climax, each state organization
4 benly repudiated the doctrines 1t had
( acclaimed and the attitude it had ta-
yysen only a year ago."
4Several of the democratic conven-
pms in the west have simply ignored
De silver issue, but in Iowa it was
benly voted down, the party thus TAX
Ag an Affirmative stand against the al |
ked principles" it has advocated for ]
liars In this state. 1t boldly admits to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
INV Family Doctor"

Bite Island. Ill, Jan. IA, 1901. Messrs.
Ely Bros.:-I have used your Cream
Balm in my family for nine years and
1t has become my family doctor for
colds in the head. use it freely on my
children. 1t is Godsend to children as
they are troubled more or less.
Yours respectfully, j. Kimball.
Judge for yourself. A trial size can
be had for the small sum of 10 cents
Supplied by druggists or mailed by Ely
Brothers. Sc Warren street, New York
Full size, so cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Suit Pock0ibook and $fonDa06 ).

Most grocers carry fun line of..Hexs
canned meats.
Does yourSi
Ask him.
Ask him to let you examine them. Am0ng
the forty good things" which ne put up you
are sure to find half dozen-perhaps more
that will suit your pocketbook as well ~ your
stomach. ss5ss
An especially attractive article in the way
Of canned meats is lunch tongue. It IL sold 81
three Sizes, and lbs Economical, palat.
able, wholesome, and with an exquisite flavor, u
Is q welcome addition to any table.
Other articles which meet with read, saao
are-Potted chicken, ported turkey, veal Loaf,
Vienna sausage. pork and beans, and coined
opening cans-turn the key and the can d opea.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Smyrna Fig Established in California.
[San Francisco Chronicle.

JostII rTdIIC1sCU CHFUHTCIe.1
Smyrna fig raising has at last been
successfully established in California
on large scale on the Stanford ranch
at Vina, by the employment of the
blastophaga as an agent for the fertili-
Zation Of the fruit. The fruit is report
ed to be of an excellent quality and the
industry of fig raising and curing is
now to be prosecuted on an extensive
scale This means a valuable addition
to the states industries and the pro-
duction of an article Of commerce for
which there exists market the world
over. Up to date this market has been
almost wholly supplied by Asia Minor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

.Now watch Iowa free silrerites
aop." suggests the Keoknk Gate City
The Glidden Graphic declares that
the man who opposes moderate and
needed tariff revision is prolific man
,ufacturer Of free trade sentiment" and
that CONTINUED opposition is unreason-
able and unwarranted and the charge
that the platform is tainted with de-
nocracy is absurd. silly and boyish."
The Sioux City Journal notices that
the democratic state platform de-
mands the repeal Of the mulct law and
The enactment of an out -and-Out local
needed that the body of the platform
came hot from the fervid pen of the eX-
GOVERNOR
The real purpose is disclosed by the
Neolluk Gate City in thA statement that
yer in the hope of turning up demo-
cretic congressman in one or two
district in the state. That's what demo-
cratic 'princerpuls amount to when
there are thought to be offices in sight"
The Tama county democrats are not
satisfied with rhe present condition of
the liquor traffic in this county," so
they declare. Seeing that any one can
buy liquor at any time, we had 1t in
mind that such condition would be
particularly pleasing to most of the
Tama county democrats" remarks the
Tama Free Press.
In referring to Cousins proposed
campaigning tour the Toledo Chronicle
observes that Our Bob has no superior
when it comes to winning republican
victories"
The Davenport Republican says of
the democratic platform: LAS a whole
the platform says little and means less.
1t lacks positiveness and suggestive
ress. 1t fails to go into details, but is 4
full of fruitless assumptions and
whines and growls. In short it is
meatless and SD negative that is poor
reading and poorer politics"
The Spirit Lake Beacon insists that
the republican platform emphatically
speaks for Iowa republicanism. In
may change the relation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
the WElLMAn.c umM,Ns' INTERVIEW

Walter Welman has visited Dies
Moines and interviewed Governor
Cuminins on the Iowa idea of tariff re-
vision. Wellman makes an elaborate
presentation of his study of the Iowa
proposal in his correspondence to the
these conclusions, that the republicans
who t>sge tariff revision are the best
possible friends of protection, and
that ''ti.>,' do not favor a general re-
vision of the tariff. Interviewed on
the subject of revision, Governor Cum
Minis freely gave his VIEWS as he has
an previous occasions. He would re-
wise and lower tariff rates wherever
Nley sustain q monopoly
Give an example OF the sort of mo-
nopoly you would strik thru the law
On this way" said Wo'lman, and the
governor responded:
well. take tin plate ard steel rails;
take barbed wire, which has been an
absolute monopoly for four or five
years. The prices of this and kindred
articles are esorbitant because of the
monopoly, as have discovered by in
vestigation.''
"How much too high are they"
About 100 per cent
I'm the Record Herald recently ap-
peared an interview with a member of
President Roosevelt's cabinet in which
he declared reduction of the tariff
was impossible because a few men
would block action in the senate. What
do you think of that?'
eft is not. AS soon as the rank and |
file of the party want change they !
will get it. The initiative for reform
never comes from Washington, but |
from the people If the republican par
ty is in the hands of two or three sena- /
tors it is time we knew it and applied
remedy
How about the terrible results of
tariff agitation which the cabinet of
flcers picture so darkly in the Record
Herald?"
sThat is scare-crow set up in the
corn fields It is a device always re-
sorted to by those who want the tariff
treated as a sacred fetch. The menace
to this country today is not a tariff
change. but the temptations to reckless
stock watering, which avaricious men
find In their ability to create monopo-
lies in production. We can not avert
disaster by falling on our knees and
.worshining tariff schedule. The truth q
is that men who are enjoying the fruits
of monopoly are daily laughing in their
sleeves at the faulty with which the
people permit them to plumber under
the form OF law
Iowa republicans are willing to pay
good prices for whatever they have to
buy. They are willing to pay what ,
might be called American standard !
prices. But they must be prices fixed
by American competition. not by the
avarice OF the managers Of a combina- j
ton which has set up monopoly. If {
we can not have competition on this
comment we. want to invite 1t from ,
the other world. This is the Iowa
idea, and Coy. Cummins idea If Well
man mas accurately reported him. T
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

of individuals to the party. says the

of individuals to the party" says the
Beacon, but the party position is now
unalterable. 1t is simply adding insult
to injury to say the party position is
due to the influence of independents
and democrats. 1t fools nobody to say
republicans on the party platform are
acting with the democrats. 1t is idle to
indulge in Misrepresentation in the
hope of inducing the party to reverse
its deliberate action. Party harmony s
important, butsit can only be secured
thru party loyalty.
The Iowa City Republican observes
that "the democrats of Iowa, by about
thirty majority in state convention,
seem to think it is bigger than its party
III national convention"
The Sioux City Journal thinks "The
Iowa republican platform must he
sound. The state and congressional
got on it at Des Moines. and
jumping up and down did not jar it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Rice Used to Make Beer.

LNtW IUTk @sSull.1
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: Stat
istics should show that 30 per cent of
our rice crop is now used in the pro-
duction of beer. In this fair city alone
the consumption is enormous. Steam
boats. rice-laden, line the levee and
transfer this product to the local brew
cries. EMIL DURTENIT.
ST. Louis, Aug. 30
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Very Low Rates to San Francisco and
Los Angeles.

The Northwestern line will sell ex-
cursion tickets on Sept. 90 and 80 and
Oct. I, with extreme return limit until
Nov. Is, inclusive. on account of the
meeting of the N. w. ID. "A. at Monterey.
Stop-over privileges. Variable routes,
Pullman drawing room and tourist
sleeping cars, and world renowned
scenery. Apply to agents of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Veteran Congressman to Retire.

Galusha A. Grow, the veteran Penn
sylvania congressman, will go into re-
tirement after March next. He cele-
brated his S0th birthday the other day,
and announced then that he would rest
content on his present record, EXTEND
ing back to 1850. of political service and
political honors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
A Wist for the Plain People.
TChicaco Rocnrd. Herald

Tom johnson, the new champion of
the plain people, is many times mil
lionaire and has valet. Good. Let
us hope the time is rapidly coming
when all the plain people in the land
will be similarly fixed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
Where the Rods Go.

IBOStOn TranSCriptJ
The census report reveals the fact
that lightning rods are rapidly becom.
ing obsolete. Possibly the politicians
are using the entire product.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

lUIlIO VI HE IANlL0
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> Another close shave from frost CAV
: Iowans the ..silivers'' last night.
1t is said that the packers have aban
Soned the ATTEMPT to form beef trus
on account of the opposition of tht
stockman--but it would be Well to keel
4 IN eye on the movements of the pack
i ers.
! sixty disciples of Elijah Dowie, the
faith healer. have been expelled for
4 non yment of dues. There is no non
business. Faith without works is dead!
George Gould's private car Atlanta
4 is nearing completion at st. Charles.
Mo-, where he inspected it few days
/ ago. 1t is to cost about $4,000 and
/ will be a veritable palace on wheels.
| Blanche X. Bruce. the colOred man
| who at one time was re gistrar of the
treasury. is publishing a paper in Bond.
-iis.' .,.s.ss,a.., =, ,o.ord-
ance with the plans favored by Booker
T. Washington. He advises all negroes
ito buy homes, educate their children
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congressman 'siehso'', '''e o'i's ,e'''-
ocratlc member OF 'lie hdi'sas ueietsa-
ton, broke his right leg IN ooiu'i1pus
last week. And he has nafu race
ahead OF him, too.
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farm, but more loWans would sell Dig
farms III they had tleles 10 theni.
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tribute 10 ehicaSo curing MS recent 81
journ there: IL IS ugly, lhls great
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seem splendid. ! nave salu ~ Is Dig,
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ana % you tAiiieiieaiAe say YOU pel
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Missouri farmer became Suddenly
;rsane in an Armstrong church on a
.acant SUNDAY and. milling off his coat
md vest. threw them into the pulpit.
The brethren throueht he wanted to
light and a general stampede followed.
LJa nod divestad himself of tho gar
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
$40 Tour to Yellowstone Park.

Seventy dollars round trip from Mar
shalltown to Yellowstone Park and re-
turn via the Chicago & Northwestern
Ry., daily September list to 18th. The
tickets are good until September 25th
to return and the rate named includes
railroad fare in both directions, with
hotel accommodations. and stage fare
for a five days tour of the park. Do
not fail to take advantage of this ex-
opportunitY.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
OPPOSING COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

OPPUSlNG CUhlfUlSIhI AhhiihAltUN.
One OF the significant acts Of the
British labor congress- which has just
voting down a resolution calling upon
parliament to frame a measure for
delegates opposed the resolution on the
ground that under such a system the
trades unions would not only lose many
of the advantages they had wrung from
the employers. but would die out be-
cause a mead for their survival would
no longer exist. The resolution was
rejected by 96l.000 to 100000 repre-
scented votes. AS the resolution called
for courts of arbitration to be consti-
tuted by an equal number OF employers
and workman's representatives, and to
be presided over by justice of the
proposition for both sides The rejec-
ton of it would seem to be a mistake
~
Dor would prefer to take the risk of
using their power unsustained by law
to enforce their demands wherever it is
possible to do so.
In the United States there is a grow
ing sentiment i'll favor of compulsory
Justice Shiras has pointed
out the chief difficulty standing in the |
way of such arbitration and holding
trades unions to responsibility. At
present they are not incorporated and 7
ean not be held to legal Representative /
md probably they will not consent to
his step. if. taking their cue from this
British vote, they shall determine to
oppose the movement for compulsory
arbitration. 1t would seem prudent.
wen from the labor point of view, to
avor such settlement of difficulties.
'ather than to submit to something
worse which might possibly come as a
csult of the lawless work of strikers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

Via the Northwestern line Excursion
tickets will be sold at reduced rates
Sept. 10 to 16. inclusive, limited to re-
turn (under specified conditions) until
Oct. 15, inclusive, on account Of /. o.
o. F. Sovereign Grand Lodge. Apply to
agents Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

be true what the republican party has
always held that they are unsound and
unsafe, i'll fact dangerous to the public
welfare. The change of attitude and
the describing of the old platform in
one state and return TO it in another
proclaim as nothing else can that the
democratic party is not worthy the con-
tidence of those who have hitherto up
held it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

Another close Shave from frost gay
Iowans the ..si,ivers" last night.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09
IOWA ho1Es ANp OPINIONS.

.Now watch Iowa Tree silverites
flop" suggests the Keollnk Gate City.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

The Spirit Lake Beacon insists that
the republican platform emphatically
speaks for Iowa republicanism. In
subordination may change the relation
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-12

From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Kansas has produced the magistrate
who decides on a mans condition of
sobriety, or the reverse, by making
him walk a crack. Cape Girardeau,
Mo, has done better and produced a
flight of stepping stones, along which
supposedly intoxicated persons must
walk to insure their freedom from in
generation
Coon Hollow" is a bit Of low
ground lying south of the court house
at Cape Girardeau. Beyond it live the
poorer darkies and the less useful por-
tons of the local population. The hol-
low is something of sinkhole, and in
times of heavy rains becomes consid-
cradle of a morass.
To the inhabitants of the trans .hol-
low region the stepping stones across
have always been a source Of trouble
They were so necessary that their re-
moval has never been seriously con
sidered, for without them any man who
attempted to walk through the hollow
in the mud would probably stick fast
Till help came. Even with them there
enough of the inhabitants fall off in
the mud and have only the stones to
cling to for safety.
Charles Armgard is town marshal of
Cape Girardeau. He has many hit
of trouble with the settlers beyond the
stepping stones, and has often debated
with himself whether or not to run
in" some of them who seemed to have
had a drink too much. one night he
was escorting home one who pretended
he was sober. They reached the step
ping stones all right, hut there the as
sistee's troubles began. He could go a
couple of steps and then he would miss,
sway off and pitch into the mire. Mar
shall Armgard's patience was soon ex-
hausted. After the fourth or fifth at
tempt he hailed his prisoner away to
Jail.
That was how he got the idea. Now
when he has a questionable prisoner
from beyond Coon Hollow he takes him
forthwith to the stepping stone. stands
him on the first block and sits down
on the bank TO watch him go home.
If the suspect goes steadily across the
line he is all right and can stay on
the other side. If he waivers a little
and still keeps on the stones he is still
all right. But IL he staggers and
plunges off. If he misjudges the dis
lance between his foot and the stones
and falls or trips-woe to him, for the
marshal comes after him and leads him
back to the lookup.
Naturally the discovery that the step-
ping stones to their dooIsways had be-
come sort of trial court for intoxica-
ton discouraged the dwellers beyond
Coon Hollow" and so many OF them
moved away that the region threatened
to become depopulated. That did not
deter the marshal, however. Having
discovered how good a thing he had he
kept on working IL. Even IL A
suspect lived away on the Jackson road
II was easy enough TO lead him around
by the stepping stones and give him a
chance to prove he was as sober as he
| claimed.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-12

grand when or the Kings birthday the
topmost cannon begins the salute and
gun after gun bastion after bastion,
take up the sound, and swell and aug
ment it until it rolls up the mountains
to distant Granada, across the straits
to Ceuta, over the bay to Algeciras,
and the Scion of England roars like ma
lures thunder! Mount for a last view
to Eel Hacho-the> Torch, or Signal sta
ton, some 1900 feet above the sea-
the panorama is unrivaled-to the
north the mountains of Ronda loom on
the horizon Granada's snowy sierras
rise like a shadow to the east, while
to the south, across the straits. Ceuta
glistens in the sunlight on the shores
of Africa. No wonder that from the
defeated Moorish king-as from us, as
from us. the Rock of Gibraltar sinks
the Rock of Gibraltar sinks beneath
the waves-came lei ultimo suspiro, -
the Last Sigh! Charles H. Strong.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-12

at D. m. The Sacrament of the
Lords Supper win be administered
at the morning service. The Sunday
school will meet at p. m. The young
peoples meeting will be held to-mor-
row a SIS p. IN.
The services of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church viii be held at II
O'Clock a m. and at S p. m at Law
ton Memorial. The Sabbath-school
will meet at the Sunday-school room,
Barnard and Anderson streets, at 1
p. m. The Christian Endeavor Will
meet to- morrow at S:15 p. m, and
prayer meeting Wednesday at s p m.
Both these meeting will be held in
the Sunday-school room.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-12

At the First Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, services will be held at IL O'clock
a. M, when the subject of the sermon
will be, Life" The Sunday-schoo
will meet at noon. The Wednesday tes-
timony meeting will be held at 8: 30
O'Clock. All meetings are held in Metro
poAtan Hall, where also is conducted
a free reading room, open daily from
1 o'clock to g.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-12
COST OF BEING IN THE CABINET.
, To Live in Good style a Man Must
spend Three Times His salary.
Mo Nav York World

From the New York World.
A member of the cabinet to enter
tain largely should have such a house
as usually rents at from $4,000 to $l2,-
900 a year. Senator Depew pays $1,000
a month for his house. On the other
side, Secretary Wilson, who is COM
paratively poor man. lives in a house
that rents for not more than $75 a
month. Postmaster General Smith
spent his entire salary of $4,000 a year
and was compelled to write magazine
articles and to add to his income in
other ways to maintain his establish
ment. He finally weared of the strug-
gle and took apartments at a hotel.
Each cabinet minister is expected
once a year TO entertain the President
and his associates at dinner. Beyond
this he can cut out dinner giving. The
Secretary of State. i'm addition. must
give a breakfast once a year to the
diplomatic corps. Secretary Day re-
signed because he could not afford to
follow the social pace.
Carriage and horses are furnished
by the government to cabinet MEM
hers. All other expenses they must
pay themselves. A member of the cab
met maintaining his own house would
have to eXpend at least $4,000 YEAR
or nearly double his salary, to keep up
even ordinary appearances.
Attorney General Knox. upon taking
up his residence in Washington, began
by purchasing a house costing S140, 900
and bringing with him team of horses
that cost $4,000. His expenses will be
vastly in excess of $4,000 a year.
James $. Clarkson. when he became
First Assistant Postmaster General,
rented a house at $500 year. His
salary was $4,000 Mr.. Clarkson
laughingly said TO his wife: What
shall we do with the remainder OF my
salary"
Front a telenholc." was the renly.