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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
a SUCCESSFUL ls1Hm,aN CANAL.

In connection with the proposed 18TH
mian waterway the yearly report of the
directors of the Suez canal is of pecu-
liar interest at this time. This report,
issued last week, is highly instructive.
II shows that the Suez canal, which was
the butt of ridicule and the object of at
tack while it was building and during
tibet first years of its existence, to have
become an excellent investment from a
pecuniary standpoint.
The current report shows that last
years profits were in excess of any year
previous. The previous maximum was
attained in 1899, when the canal was
traversed by 1907 vessels, of 9,S65,630
tons. Last year the number of ships
was $500, of 1o,s23.S4O tons. The total
receipts, chiefly. of course, from transit
tolls, were s2o,624345, and working ex-
penses were $5,149,20o. If to the latter
we add the charges of the redemption
and insurance funds, and those of the
interest and redemption funds on bonds
and stock, we have total expenditure
Of SS,049,335. That leaves the handsome
surplus of s12,575,010. With so favora-
BILE showing, 1t is not surprising to
learn that the directors have declared
net dividend of s25 share, which is
larger by s3.4o than any ever declared
before.
This report announces a reduction In
tolls from S1.SO to s1.7O, the directors
depending upon a sufficient increase of
business to keep receipts at the maxi
mum. AS dividends increase hereafter
it Is announced that corresponding
reduction of rates Will ensue. The
growth of the business and advance of
Suez canal stock may be illustrated by
the fact that the British shares for
which that government paid Egypt
$20,000,000 are today worth $4,000, 900.
Thus it is plain that isthmian canals
are not always losing ventures.
There is no doubt that ship way be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific will
prove equally profitable. The question
of route, Nicaragua or Panama, is of
small interest to the people, so long as
Ii is selected in good faith. The people
in general seem to favor the canal and
desire its accomplishment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
cago heaves into view. 1t has had the

cago heaves into view. 1t has had the
advantage of propinquity.
The Geographic press service puts
Marshalltown quite as close to the I'm
ion stock yards or any other point on
earth as is the Record Herald building
or any other Chicago newspaper office.
The limited speed of mail trains puts it
hours and hours nearer to every man in
Iowa. The Iowa daily has the advant
age of electricity which annihilate
distance in news gathering and the Chi
cago papers the disadvantages of re-
moteness and mail trains which must
creep across the hundreds of miles be-
TWEEN them and their Iowa subscribers.
There is no question of competition in
news service The Iowa daily is i'm
pregnahle in its advantage of location,
a fact now realized and acted upon the
Chicago managers of newspapers.
1t will be interesting to note the diff
ferent ideas Of Chicago managing edi-
tors as to what constitutes a Sunday
paper strong enough to hold circulation
and serve as vehicle for the Sunday
advertising which is SO large a part of
their incomes. Most of the magazine
articles and short stories of the Sunday
papers have heretofore been of the
dishwater variety. 1t is possible that
higher class of this matter Joined to the
comic and artictically illustrated feat
ures may be enough to buoy up and
float the Sunday paper without late and
news service. However, it
ahead for the Chicago circulators.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19

which has appeared in this paper has
been actuated only by a desire to pub
fish the facts about a man whose ac-
tons have been fair subjects for pub
lie notice. The T.-R. greatly regrets a
suit of this kind because of the neces-
sary expense in defending our course
and more especially because until de-
cided it impugns the the accuracy of
news statements in our columns. How
ever, our plaintiff must prepare to
prove his case. A newspaper when
guilty of no misstatement of facts must
defend it's right to print the truth and
can not afford to make any tenders of
settlement. The T.-R. shows nor quar-
ter in court trial. The jury must de-
eide
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19

When the different members of the
EDITORS family ask, Why don't The
Four Track News Gomez" it is getting
to be like Castoria, even "the children
cry for it," and this tells the story. 1t
is the most interesting publication
that comes in our exchanges, and the
reason is easily told. Mr.. Geo. II. DAN
iels, the general passenger agent, who
has charge of it, has the Carnegie
faculty" of getting good men around
him, who know their business, and
the result is that in everything the
publication department Of the New
York Central distributes, it is all
right"-Brooklyn, N. Y. Journal.
The subscription price Of THE Four
Track News" is so cents per year. A
sample copy will be sent free, for
cents by Geo. H. Daniels. general pas
senger agent, New York Central e
Hudson River Railroad, Grand Cen
trail station, New York.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
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/ LITERATURE AND LIFE:h
A. j. N.
Observation-Disclosures.

The stage is becoming prominent in
literature. Not only are there goodly
number of books being written about
stage people. but there is an increasing
number in the glare of the footlights
proving their ability to produce good
books.
ice Jefferson wor reputation in the
threefold capacity of actor, writer and
lecturer; and now Clara Morris proves
her power to enact either role equally
we'll.
The public knew she could act. and
some of US knew she had even enter
tanned various clubs, from the lecture
platform, In a highly satisfactory man
ner and for some time we have been
greatly pleased with her brief sketches
and anecdotes appearing in the popular
magazines, but 1t was not until her au-
photography appeared that she proved
herself possessed of the genuine gift of
authorship.
Her Life on the Stage" (McClure,
Phillips & Coz, has captured the read
ing public, and what is more, the crit
les say all manner Of nice things about
the book and about the author. De-
lightful, truthful. graphic, thrilling, pic
turesoue are some of the adjectives
used.
Containing the recollections Of her
personal experiences, and of the many
notable people she has known. makes
her story more captivating than fiction.
Many of the great stage figures OF the
pastt-eh Booths, Barrels, l'iske, Daily
Davenport and others, stand out very
much alive in her narrative, compelling
the reader to weep and laugh alter
rately with them.
A most pathetic episode relates to
the Rarretts. When their mother died
the prodigal son Joseph was missing,
and could nowhere be found In time for
the funeral He had been conquered
by his besetting sin, strong drink, had
ben discharged and had disappeared.
The funeral over, the son Lawrence
was lingering by the fresh mounded
grave when suddenly out Of the eve
ming gloam, stumbled the erring boy,
and falling at full length across the
grave of his hearts idol, he walled pit
eously:
ooh, mother, have hungered, and I
have tramped with the curse upon me,
too. have hungered and tramped so
far, hoping just to be in time to see
your dear face once more, and now
they've shut YOU away from me. from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
WISE AND uNwIsE USE OF POWER.

Life in the nation runs on in even
tenor, with the full tide of prosperity.
Every citizen has full OPPORTUNITY to
secure his share in the field of effort,
and each citizen in this and other re-
spects exercises power for good or evil
in an economic way. That life is run
ming on in an even tenor is evidence
that rational use of opportunity is
might be pointed out in wild specula-
ton with it's attendant dangers, great
extravaganza and running wildly into
debt Such dangers are not now con-
spicuous features on the national hor-
rizon. 1t is fair to assume that the peo-
pie are being educated to avoid them.
But if these are not present there is
a cloud that is making itself gNeat and
ominous. 1t is the coal strike, with its
threat of checking all industry and
turning all our prosperity into advers-
ity. We have said that each citizen ex-
erts power for good or evil. Collective
ly mighty power is exercised. These
coal miners in the anthracite region
have a contention with the mine oper-
ators. They are out on a strike. Now
1t is proposed by the leaders to call out
all soft coal miners. The strike would
thus involve all told 100000 miners.
With that number of important workers
idle all industry would suffer and all the
people would share in it.
The people are helpless on-lookers
and innocent victims of this warfare.
They can do nothing to stay it's pro-
gress. Even the government is help
less. 1t can not interfere to settle the
contention or to check the tide Of disas-
ter that must inevitably follow pro-
longed effort
Will anyone say that it Is wise use
of power to involve the entire indus
try of the nation in an effort to coerce
a few mine owners who would suffer
least in general break down of pros
perity? We have had many lessons
showing the disastrous results of
strikes. Perhaps it is necessary to have
others in order to enforce upon un-
wise labor leaders and their supporters
the baleful effects of such efforts; and
If it is to come with the present strike
the lesson will be costly and disastrous
one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
A CHANGE IN NEWSPAPER POLICY.

Hereafter the Chicago Sunday paper
will be mailed from that city at 10
o'clock Saturday evening affording a
Saturday news service under a Sunday
date. This practically eliminates the
news feature of the paper and makes
1t desirable to the extent that it's mag
1zine features are more or less excel
lent. The reason for this action on the
part of Chicago newspaper managers is
not far to seek. The high excellence of
iowa dailies, there efficiency as news
satherers and enterprise and prompt
ness in placing the news of the world
before their subscribers have made the
competition too severe. The Iowa pa
per gets there first. 1t has brought the
Interesting happenings to its clientele
long before the blanketsheet from Chi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19

Overall Factory.
A great market all around u.s. Bes'
of help easily secured at reasonable
prices. Unsurpassed railway distri-
button.
Cooperage Factory.
Our numerous industries require a
large cooperage supply. One indus
try alone is ready to contract for $s,-
900 worth.
Shoe Factory.
Abundant supply of best help at rea-
sonable prices. Center of great mar
ket. Finest railway distribution.
Glove Factory.
Marshalltown is the center OF the
greatest using territory in the
United States and it's shipping facili-
ties unexcelled.
Pants Factory.
Cheap help. Great markets. Quick,
cheap and easy distribution.
Wagon Factory.
The center of the greatest wagon
market of the world. Low freight
and quick distribution.
Buggy Body Factory.
There are about 100000 bugsies
made annually within ESQ miles
around us. Low freights, quick dis
tribution.
Vince! Factory.
The same inducements as for the
body factory.
Wood Boxes.
our industries require a large
amount of boxes, now bought else
where The raw material could be
shipped in cheaper than the manu-
afctured goods.
Condensed Milk.
There is no better field for a con-
densed milk plant in the world than
in our city. We are the center of the
greatest dairy interest in the coun-
try.
HuIIed Corn.
If corn is king, we are the kingdom
Can furnish the best and cheapest
corn, and in unlimited quantities.
Oatmeal Mill.
No section of the country produces
more or better oats than are raised
within a radius of 200 miles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
These Are the Factories Marshalltown Wants and
Ready to Assist Any Of Them.
and She Is
Breakfast Foods Factory

Breakfast Foods Factory
We produce in largest quantities all
the great grains, corn, wheat, oats,
rye, and should be the home of such
industries.
Broom Factory.
We raise the broom corn; finest quail
ity, greatest quantity. The natural
place of the manufacture of brooms
for the millions.
Stove Factory.
The success of Marshalltown's fur
mace industry demonstrates that our
field would suit the stove business.
The Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska
and the western states must all be
kept warm.
Machine Shops.
The two large shops here are full of
their own special work. We have a
good field for a machine shop for
general commercial work.
Cattle Packing House.
Our immense pork packing industry
is f1oulishing and both Swift and the
Armours have established large poul-
try packing houses. The same adj
vantages would encourage q beef
packing plant.
Tile Factory.
We have no tile factory here and our
field for this business is almost un.
limited. We have the clays.
Buggy Factories.
We already have the largest carriage
factory in the west. Other buggy
factories making different qualities
would here find great and profitable
market for their goods. The buggy
business is rapidly moving west OF
Chicago for the western and Pacific
trade, the greatest and richest mar.
ket in the world.
Fur Factory.
The hides for making fur coats can
be bought and tanned here and this
is the center of the country in which
fur coats are used.
Mattress Factory.
For the making of bed springs and
mattresses Marshalltown offers a
desirable site from which these
goods can be sold in large terri
tory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
OUR LIBEL sulI

The Times Republican has been sued
again for libel. Since our first and
rather recent suit was thrown out of
court because of it's lack of merit we
had thought that other aggrieved per-
sons would wait for a case contain
ing some valid ground for action before
rushing us into court again, but it
seems that the idea of the mere bring
ing of a suit being in itself a vindica-
ton of character still prevails How
ever, the T.-R. is able to appear with
good legal talent and all plaintiffs may
be sure that no time will be lost in
hurrying the facts of the case to the
jury
This time we are sued for publishing
the news about man who was once ar
rested for stealing hogs, and subse-
quently escaped Indictment by the
grand jury. At the time the man was
a total stranger to us. He once called
at this Office to make complaint about
the article. A T.-R. editor promptly Of
fered to rectify any error that had been
made in the article but the man adj
mitted that he had been arrested for
stealing hogs. that the hogs had been
found in his possession but that he did
not know how they got there. Our
II Il cfo Tod =; ct
case fully. He also admitted to the edi-
tor that he had been caught substitute
ing false weights for the weighing of
stock bought by his competitor and OBJ
jected to the editors conclusion that he
had a bad record" by the excuse that
he was working in the employ of an
other when he changed the weights.
When the grand jury failed to indict
this man because of lack of sufficient
evidence he brought suits against the
man who had arrested him, H. w. Clay
and others, for $4,000 for defamation Of
character. When the case came to trial
Clay's lawyer made tender of SIS set
Element to avoid liability for costs if the
jury should return verdict for less
and the aggrieved man accepted the IS
in full settlement of all the damages he
had suffered.
Later this same interesting citizen
bought some $4,000 worth of livestock,
giving checks in payment which were
protested because his bank balance was
only about $1,000. This very naturally
excited suspicion in financial circles
and when it was learned that he had
written his wife that he would not re-
turn, the community looked upon him
as an absconder. If he has returned
but we understand that his affairs with
the bank that was under contract to
cash all of his checks have not been
settled. If they have and our plaintiff
is square" with his creditors he could
secure much more vindication by giving
us the information for publication than
by bringing suit for libel. We have
known that he and the Clays at New
burg Were engaged in a serious con-
troversy but both are total strangers to
the editors of the T.-R. and the news
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19

with this open sympathy, that is ex-
tremely dangerous to the community
and the nation at large. And that is,
the utter lack on the part of the on
lockers to condemn the lawlessnss of
the mob. In so far as the writer was
able to notice, not u Chicago daily,
came out with a ringing editorial con-
demning the defiance of the mob TO the
authority of the state. Not a Chicago
daily came under the eye of the writer
which even sympathzed with the po-
licemen in their efforts TO restore order.
Even Mayor Harrison received
only slight praise for his or
ders and efforts to restore
order. In ordinary times, if one brick
is thrown and hits a policeman, wound
ing him and endangering his life, GER
tain yellow journals would have got out
an extra, and printed a double loaded
editorial, condemning the proceeding
and eXtolling the virtus of tn police
force. In ordinary times, the Record
Herald, the Tribune and the Inter-
Ocean, would have seen in the block
AIDES of the streets by the electric cars
this blockade designedly formed to pre-
meat. an outrage in preventing the car
rying on Of business. But in this case
the tone of these papers was to treat
the matter as sort of a practical joke.
Their reporters We're quick to see. and
write up the funny part of the whole
business.
1t goes without saying, the cause of
this condition of affairs, this open SEN
timent of sympathy with mob and mob
law in Chicago, was not so much for
love of the teamster as hate of the
packer. We have been made to believe
that the meat trust is abusing the peo-
pie. We know that the anthracite coal
companies and railroads are taking mill
lions out of the pockets of the people to
swell the bank accounts of the mem
bers of the coal trust. We have an ov-
empowering feeling of dislike not to say
hatred towards these abusive trusts
and combines. With it goes knowl-
edge of our inability to alter conditions.
But when this sentiment shows itself by
sympathy of lawless acts. When the
press and people, stand idly by and for
three days watch battles between mob
and authority, not even raising q pro-
test against the Attempts on the lives of
our hired police authority, it's mighty
dangerous condition of affairs We
forget that the stone thrown at the
policeman is also aimed at us. And we
also forget that the intangible, unseen,
and invisible thing known as public
opinion, rules society. With public opin-
ion on the side of and in sympathy with
the mob, the republic is in danger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

The writer was a diligent reader of
the Chicago daiies during the late
transfers strike, and while the strike
contained all of the usual elements of
the exhibition of mob law, there was
one unusual striking object and that
was the sympathy of the citizens of
Chicago This showed itself in the ac-
tons of the other teamsters, non -union,
the motor-men and conductors of the
electric car lines, the crowds on the
sidewalks and even the so-called higher
class of people riding by in their car
riages Add to this the words of the
photographers in the daily papers, sup
plemented by the editorial utterances
and we had picture of the masses, in
sympathy with the strikers. The writ
er will own, to personal, similar feel
ing And If this scribe is capable of
Judging, the same condition exists, this
referring to the striking anthracite coal
miners in Pennsylvania.
But there is bad feature connected
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
Woman.
[By a Bachelor.]

A bundle of nerves,
A grouping of curves,
a blending of weakness and vim;
A jewel of price,
An ornament nice,
A plumage delightfully."- trim.
A leaven that leavens,
\ heaven of heavens,
Promoter of Joys and of thrills;
A healer of pain,
A causer of bane,
Custodian of pleasures and ills.
A hard thing to gain,
And worse to maintain,
Uncertain investment and dear;
A sweet, tempting bait,
A merciless fate,
Paradoxical, puZZling and queer.
The riddle of the Sphynx
Is nothing, methinks,
Compared with mans joy or his curse
But "noblesse oblige"
We CALAMITY siege
A woman for better or worse"
New York Commercial.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
whoopinu Couch.

My little son had an attack OF
whooping cough and was threatened
with pneumonia; but for Chamberlaln's
Cough Remedy we would have had a
serious time of It, 1t also saved him
from several severe attacks of Group
III. J. Strickfaden. editor World Herald,
Fair Haven, Wash. For sale by drug
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
Saved From an Awful Fate.

Everybody said 1 had consumption"
writes Mrs. A. NJ. Shields, of Chambers
burg, Pa, II was so low after six
months of severe sickness, caused by
hay fever and asthma, that few thought
l could get well, but l learned of the
marvellous merit of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for consumption, used it, and
was completely cured" For desperate
t, roat and lung diseases it is the safest
cure in the world, and is infallible for
coughs colds and bronchial affections.
Guaranteed bottles 80 cents and 81.
Trial bottles free at George p. Powers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
For the Great N. e. A. Meeting at Min.
neapolis, Mimi, July I'll,

The Iowa Central railway will sell tick
cts at greatly reduce rates; tickets on
sale July 5. 6 and Z; good to return un-
til Sept. 1. This will be a fine oppor-
tunity to hear the greatest educators in
our country. For further particulars
call on local ticket agent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19

Appropriate Text-"Hit surtinly do
fill dis ole heart OBJ mine wifi joy" began
the Rev. Flatfoot, as the last wall from
the wheezy organ escaped thru an open
present dis galorious Sabbath mawnin'.
De good book hit say: He war er
stranger an All took him in De dea-
cons will now proceed ter take up de
collecshion."
Chicago News
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
cHATAUoUA ASSEMBLY.

Waterloo, la, June 23-JuIy q, 1902.
For this meeting the Chicago Great
Western railway will, on June 22nd to
July 4th, sell excursion tickets to Wat
erloo, good to return July 9Th, for a
fare and one-third for the round trip.
For further information apply to J. A.
Ellis, ticket agent, Marshalltown, Ia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The fact that Senators Allison and
Deliver have expressed a preference
for the Panama route would indicate
to the Cedar Rapids Republican that
the Panama route is the better one of
the two. Senator Allison is not apt to
be on the wrong side of such a ques-
ton. He has reached that point in the
public service and private life where he
has nothing more to serve than what
he believes TO be absolutely right and
for the best"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
Ready to Yield.

used DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
for piles and found it cure" says
S. r. Meredith, Willow Grove, Del
Piles always yield to DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Cures skin diseases, all
kinds of wounds. Accept no counter
feits. George P. Powers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
| ow Round Trip Summer Rates,

Via the Chicago Great Western rail-
way to ST. Paul, Minneapolis. the val
ley lakes, Duluth and the Superiors.
Tickets good to return Oct. 81. For
oates of sale and other Information ap-
ply to j. A. Ellis, ticket agent Mar
sha lltown Iowa,