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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
TAXING MONEYS AND CREDITS.

Mr.. j. G.. Brown writes the T.-k'
from Daytona, Fla, expressing ms
views as to The wisdom of taxing mon
eys and credits. Mr.. Browns objec-
tions to such tax are well founded
but to our mind there is still greater
injustice. AT present but very small
per cent of money holdings are taxed
and the large portion that evades the
tax holds interest rates down to such a
figure that the honest mans money
when taxed will net him scarcely more
than 3 per cent. If all money paid the
tax ana competition was fair as be-
tween all men, honest and dishonest
alike, interest rates would rise and the
public would soon see the unwisdom OF
taxing this class of property. At present
we do not believe that the tax has been
shifted to any great extent, so that the
only ones who suffer are the men hon
est enough TO list their moneys and
credits for taxation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
THIRTEEN DRAWS OF DOLLARS.
Texas State Treasurer Pays Coin by the
WAGON Load for Bonds.

The American National Bank OF
Kansas City and Kelly & Kelly, bond
brokers of Topeka, Kas have just fin
ished a deal in which they sold to the
state of Texas nearly 100000 worth of
the county bonds OF that state. Pay
ment for the bonds was made In Austin
with 100000 in silver and the remain
der in paper and gold in equal proper
lions.
The transfer of the money from the
state treasWer's Office in Austin to the
banks in that city occurred last Tues
day. The silver was in sacks contain
and made thirteen loads in the dray
ing each $1,000, weighing $4,000 pounds,
wagons, delivering it to the banks The
coin was loaded by three men, while a
half dozen guards We're in attendance.
The time required in transferring the
money from the treasuer's vaults to the
banks occupied three hours
| The board which makes purchase OF
bonds for the school fund for which
this block of bonds was bought is COM
posed of the governor, the comptroller
and the secretary of state. The state
| treasurer of Texas does not deposit his
money in banks and therefore has just
such money as is gathered up for taxes
| turnout the state and has it in the
vaults of his Office. This accounted fol-
the large quantity of silver that was
| paid in this deal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
THE TILLMAN TILT.

Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of
South Carolina disgraced himself on
Washington's birthday by making a
brutal assault upon his colleagues Senator
j. l. McLaurin. 1t was a sorry sight
for the gods of craftsmanship in the
highest and most deliberative body Of
American leaders of public thought and
action. 1t was a scene that might have
Hinspired Teddy" McGovern of the prize
ring, but II would also have have moved
the Calhouns and Haynes to turn over
in their graves.
The people, however. have quite ac-
curately gagged ire-eating Tillman,
and tho shocked We're not surprised at
this latest exhibition of brutality, first
with tongue and then with fists. These
two democrats from South Carolina are
as far apart in their ideas as any two
q more liberal school that believes in a
new south, one that would shake off 8
great deal of the bias and prejudice OF
the Tillman school. When assaulted he
could only defend himself as best he
could. He should have known, howev-
or, that in branding his colleague as {
wllful, malicious and deliberate liar, hs
not only was guilty of an equal breach
of decoruin. but invited just such treat
4 ,,,araf he acaixra5
Both of these senators are now il
contempt of the senate and can d,
nothing until the senate acts upon thei
case. They deserve to be expelled. bu
that is too much to expect from bod,
of men who know their own weakness
es and will probably be willing to con
done when confessions are made. TIL
state of South Carolina at least needs t
purge herself by some action that Wi
repudiate the brutaliuty of these tw
senators.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
A BIG NEW LAW SCHOOL.

The University of Chicago, which has
an immense endowment fund, is in re-
ceipt of another big lift, and is in fact
constantly illustrating the scriptural
statement that Unto every one that
hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance" William r. Harper the
president. recently returned from the
east and this time it is with the an
nouncement that the university is to
have a law school. The name of the
giver is withheld but it is generally
supposed that John d. Rockefeller is
sponsor for the new department. The
name of the school will be the school of
law and jurisprudence of the University
of Chicago, and it is said it will be the
only graduate law school west of New
the first three law schools in the coun-
try. Funds estimated at from 100000
to 100000 will be available for the
building, endowment and maintenance
of the schools. which will be established
on Oct l. Aside from the amount nee
essary to establish the school. $4,000
has been set aside for law library. y
special building will soon be erected on
the campus at a cost of $4,000 to
100000. Courses in the school will be
open to graduates of universities or
those who have completed three years
of undergraduate work. The entire
work of the school will be conducted on
the campus where the students will
have the benefit of the academic atmes-
phere The faculty of fifteen instructors
will devote their entire time TO instruc-
ton, as the plan provides no place for
practising lawyers in the corps of in
structors. OF course 1t will be the
aim to make this department one of
high grade, for the Standard Oil mag
nate desires that the great university
shall commend itself TO the public.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

A gentleman from State Center
writes opposing the consolidation of
rural schools, giving as his reasons the
great inconvenience of Transporting
children long distances in bad weather
and over poor roads, the belief that
lands would be deprecated in value IL
the school was far removed and the ex-
pense would certainly be great.
The question is one that has two
sides. like all other questions, a right
and a wrong side, with some wrong on
the right and some right on the wrong
sides. Wherever the consolidated rur-
al school has been established with
suitable conveyances the experience
has been that the system was liked by
the farmers themselves. that lands ac-
tually were enhanced in value when 1t
was known that school children would
be transported daily 10 good graded
school and that the schools We're greatly
improved in quality by better buildings,
more expert teachers ana a more al
vantageous classification of pupils. The
one great drawback to farm life has
been the difficulty of access to good
schools. Many farmer has sold out
and moved to town to worry along in
mercantile business for the sole purpose
of giving his children good schooling
Others have sent their children to the
town schools and driven after them
The advocates of consolidated rura
schools intend to bring the first-class
graded school to the rural districts
which can only be done by consolida,
ton and transportation of pupils. Th'
T.-R. believes that they have the bes
of the argument.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24

shot him dead, and. when arrested for
killing the negro. he pleaded self de-
Tense. He was discharged from GUS
tody on the ground that the negro
was about to assault him with a dead
Nv weapon, to-wit, his head.
A case that ought to be of interest
TO liuuor sellers in Kansas and other
prohibition states has recently been
decided by the supreme court of Maine.
The decision was that where a WIFE
had been injured in her means of sup
port by reason OF the death oil hei
husband. caused by his intoNicatlon'
she had a right to recover damages
from the person who sold him the
liquor that caused the intoNication.
In Texas the supreme court has re-
Gently reversed q Judgment conVictihg
n man of murder and has ordered Il
new trial because the court erred IN
permitting the sheriff to testify that
the accused refused to look at the
body of the murdered man. The fact
that the accused would not look at
the body was thus used In his trlal
as a criminatiye fact against him. Ihe
supreme court says that If refusal
of This kind could be used against
| a man accused of crime, then his re-
fusal to answer questions at all might
with equal justice be used against hinl
as a confession of the truth of states
ments made in his presence.
| The supreme court of West Virginia
has reversed a conviction In the felony
case for the following reason, which
seems almost trivial: In the trial of the
| case the examination of a witness was
! begun while the prisoner was out OF
| the ROOM The only questions asked
| the witness were as to her name ano
| the name of her husband, and then
1.-THE court noticed the absence of the
prisoner and stopped the examination
until the prisoner returned to the couf'
| room. The two preliminary questions
twere re- asked and re-answered In ex-
actly the same way as before, and the
lawyers for the prisoner made no OBJ
lection on the grounds of irregularity;
and yet the supreme court reversed
the case. holding that it was the con-
stitutionaI right of prisoner to oe
present at all stages of his trial. ahe
this right a prisoner can not waive
he can not be deprived OF 1t, ana sucf
error can not be cured
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
.pabra1 Ju7. Jllurdag, Fehr,arg "a 1902

ship in certain localities the bishop SAID
there was a continual shifting of the
population and the hamlet sent it's best
people to the county seat, the county
seat to the larger cities of the state and
the larger cities to the greater cities OF
the country The Episcopal churches
had no churches in the country districts
and the farmers, and their families VINO
moved to the small towns We're mem
bers of other denominations and pre1u-
diced against the Episcopal. There was
Marengo. Newton, Brooklyn. Atlantic,
Glenwood. Shenandoah, Abba Fairfield
Washington, If the church was permit
ted to die in those places. the bishop
said. the effect would soon be felt in
Iowa City. Waterloo and MarshalltoWh,
and then in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines.
Davenport and Dubuque. While the
towns were growing there was no Epis-
copal population coming in and the
struggle became greater in the larger
parishes"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
A Story of Bishop Whipple.
March Century


When called to take up the new mis-
sion of the Holy Communion, Chicago,
he found busy railway yards close TO
his chapel. He asked the chief ensin-
eer how to reach railway operatives.
Read Lardners Railway Economy
until you are able TO ask question of
an engineer and he not think YOU a
fool So instructed, he dropped in.
one day. ON a group cleaning and en-
CINE, and ventured a question: Which
do you like the better, inside or out
side connections?" A torrent of dis
cussion followed on connections,
steam heaters, exhausts; and at the
end of a half-hour he remarked, IN
leaving: Boys. l have a free church in
Metropolitan Hall. where l should be
glad TO see you The next Sunday
every man was there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24

protectionists decided to grant conees-
sions.
If this plan is carried out it will not
only carry welcome news to the cubans
but will also tend to allay the co,iten-
ton for tariff changes now urged by
large numbers of republicans to equal
ize conditions, tho 1t will not fully sat
isfy them. There is a very earnest de-
mand among loyal republicans in Iowa
for slight tariff changes, despite the
fact that Speaker Henderson has hith-
erto sought to stem this tide. 1t is be-
iieved, however. that he now sees a new
light and will at least eoncede that
there are two sides TO this question and
that his state is not in harmony with
his uncompromising views.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
Money Escapes Taxation.

Editor Times Republican. We read
with interest the discussion on the tax
question US suggested by the proposed
repeal OF The tax ferret law. We have
always held radical views regarding
this. taxation of moneys and credits.
That all property should bear Its share
OF taxation no one will deny, but when
. considerable amount evades listing.
IS moneys and credits have In Iowa for
( forty years or more. il has caused
! damage that pervades many business
interests We can safely assert that
not over 10 per cent of moneys and
icredlts are reached by collectors, and
/ that the small proportion which pays
/ taxes regulates the rates of interest, sc
when dimes have been saved to the
people dollars have been paid out in
Increased interest During thirty-one
years residence in Marshall county
we have paid interest on considerable
lanounts most of the time, and as ar
interest payer we advocate the exemp.
ton of all moneys and credits from
taxation as a business principle.
We admit that the tax ferrets caught
rany capitalists unprepared and Sc
cured for the time being lerge amount.
ef taxes, but their feast will soon bt
ever, for the ways are numerou:
whereby they can evade the assessor
Rand the chief incentive is the excessive
rate of taxation in the cities with th'
prevailing low rate of interest. At th'
present time a capitalist can not real
lie more than an average of per cen
on loans, and the levies in most cite
viii take one third OF that, so If he doe
, rot want to resort TO tricks TO dodg
the assessor he simply moves to wher
taxes are lighter or the ferrets less ag
gressive. Thousands of wealthy north
en men are establishing thdr homes II
Florida, and this exodus from the tax
ridden north will increase, for il is n
hardship TO stay few winter month
IN this congenial climate.
j. q. BROWN.
Davtora Flo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
CONCESSIONS TO CUBA.

1t is announced from Washington
that the ways and means committee of
the house has backed down from the
position in which it was defying public
sentiment by refusing to grant tariff
concessions to Cuba. 1t has seen new
light and now 1t favors the granting of
q 90 per cent reduction on import duties
to the islands. This is not enough, but
II is expected that this will merely be
the entering wedge, and that amend
ments In the house or the senate will
make it so per cent and that the per-
fected measure will be adopted by both
houses.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
called several of the rock-rooted OBJ
iactors to tariff changes into conference
and urged concessions to Cuba and thai
ba also assured them that he was op-
posed to general tariff agitation ant
changes and would veto any measure
which tended in that direction. Witt
This assurance the uncompromlslnt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
is AT LOW EBe.
Right Rev. T. N. Morrison Sees Decay
of Episcopalian Church.


Right Rev. T. N. Morrison, bishop OF
the Episcopal diocese of Iowa, in an
address at Cedar Rapids prophesied, a
day or two ago. that unless the mission
movement In the church was better
supported the church would die out In
Iowa.
In reviewing the bishops address the
Cedar Rapids Gazette says:
"He briefly reviewed the Episcopal
field in Iowa and explained why 1T was
that In certain localities the member
ship of Episcopal churches had dwin-
died to almost nothing and In order to
secure numerical growth 1t was abso-
lutely necessary to carry on the mis-
sion movement and If it We're not the
| church would die out-at least In GER
/ tain localities of the Iowa diocese. The
bishop began his address by citing the
| case of q member of the church VINO
could see no reason for giving missions.
He imagined there We're people all over
the diocese who feel the same way and
resent the manner in which the bishop
forces the question of church extern
sion. Some of these people systematl-
cally remained away from the serv-
missions. He saw them at confirma-
ton and took 1t for granted that they
4 abstained from church when missions
/ were presented Unless he took an In
terest In missions, said the bishop. ane
raised money for their support the
church was going to die out In thirty
or forty towns in the state of Iowa;
these churches will be closed and ulti-
mately the whole church in the diocese
would die.
Bishop Morrison said there were
only twenty-t three parishes In Iowa tina
were self-supporting, and there Were
sixty-seven places In the state where
services were maintained and supple
mented with missionary money II thu
: latter are abandoned there will be bu
: twenty-three places in Iowa in which
Episcopal services will be conducted
The bishop said every man would an
swer to the measure of his responsible
III ity.
Bishop Morrison said he would for
tify the statement that the churcl
would die out If the members did no
! Interest themselves in missions. Refer
ring to the towns along the Rock Islam
i road in Iowa, lie Sulu that az MafeHS'
Brooklyn, Cirinnell and other place
they were maintaining services b
sending the archdeacon to four or fiv
, churches that We're once self-support
, ing. In the changes that had take
. place in these charges some of the age
, supporters of the church had died an
their children had removed to large
o places. Lapses in the rectorship fol
lowed and when the point of self-sup
n port was reached years passed withou
q service. II the closed churches opene
/ there must be money with which to pa
4 the living expenses of the priest. In ex
q planning the decrease In the member
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
a NAIL CATCHES A BURGLAR.
He Hangs Head Downward Will
PnIicennen Are onLinn for Hin,

He Hangs Head Downward While
Policemen Are Looking for Him.
A woman of courage and burg
lar hanging head downward from a
nail which caught in his clothes. were
incidents connected with the capture
of some clothing store thieves in New
York city recently.
AS Mamie Smith was entering her
home, she saw two men in the door
way putting clothes into a bag. She
noticed that the window of tailor
shop was broken.
What are you guys doing ther?'
asked Mamie In dulcet tones
"What the - is that to you? Get
out of here!" came the equally polite
reply.
Mamie raised her voice and police
men heard. AS they came they raped
their night sticks, giving the signal to
Others The thieves dropped Their
bundles and ran. One got out OF
sight and the other disappeared in a
| tenement house doorway The police
men hunted for him, and had about
given up, when one of them on look
| ing into an areaway in the rear of the
| house, saw the thief hanging head
downward against some boards, like
a string of onions In an Italian domi.
Gle. Magistrate Cornell held him fol
trial on charge of burglary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
pert detective work to discover such
emissions and evasions as have made
the ferret work so profitable" All that
is needed is an additional clerk or two.

THE tax ferret ought to go. Senator
Healy's bill is step in the right iiree-
ton. This is the declaration oil TIE
Sioux City journal. While the journal
believes all taxes should be fairly paid
IL observes that THE tax ferret is not q
public officer. He is under no obliga-
ton to the public. He goes into the
business to line his own pockets WITH
the fat commission allowed him under
the law. He can pick whom ne pleases
for his victims and let whom he pseases
alone. After he gets on the trail of a
tax dodger the ferret can deal as he
chooses With his victim. The latter can
be made to Fay the full amount OF his
delinquencies into the public treasury
or a private settlement can be made
with the delinquent by which the ierfet
shall receive the amount of his COM
mission or more, and eSae public treas-
ury shall get nothing The journal
declares the ferret is as likely to MT a
poor man as q rich one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
Mr.. ARMouR's GIFT A GOLF CLUB
A Course and House Presented to CHI
caao Employees of Big Company.

rChicago Chronicle.]
]. Ogden Armour is the proprietor OF
a new golf club. 1t was formed IN Chl-
cage, and it is called the Armour Coll
Club. An organization was accom-
plished at meeting which was held at
the Armour offices and officers for the
first year were elected.
The membership of the club will be
made up of employees of j. Ogden Ar
mour. Each employee who becomes
member may in turn invite friend M
to the membership. The members VIII
be under no expense whatever with the
exception of maintaining the cub house
and the grounds.
The house will be erected by j. Ogden
Armour, and the links will be laid out
at his expense. Work on both Will be-
gin Just as soon as possible, and when
everything is completed the course VIII
be turned over to the members, free.
The course will be looted at Stony
Island avenue and Eighty-third street
Eighty acres of land owned by the Ar
mours at this place will be turned into
the links. The course will be one of nine
holes and will be $500 yards long.
The club house which is now under
consideration is to cost in the neigh
lborhood of s11 900, and about $1,000 will
be spent in making the greens, bunkers
and hazards.
The club will apply at once for MEM
bership in the Western and United
States Golf Associations. In addition
to golf, other out-of- door sports will be
| fostered While others besides the en-
pioyes of the Armour company may be-
come members thru invitation, none Of
| these will be allowed to hold office.
The organization enjoys the distinc-
ton of being the only club in the Unit
ed States which is absolutely controlled
by the employees of a big corporation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
cardinaI Gibbons on Woman Question.

Alice Stone Blackwell
Cardinal Gibbons, in his contribution
to the Ladies' Home Journal against
the equal rights of women. and women
who are devoted to clubs and to '.soci-
ety. seems to think these are one and
the same set of women, and he blames
them for much domestic unhappiness
and divorce.
Whatever harm may be done to the
home by excessive indulgence in So
ciety or in club work, none at all is
done to it by equal rights for women.
III Wyoming full suffrage was granted
in 1863 During the twenty years from
1870 to 1890 divorce in the United
States at large increased about three
times as fast as the population. In the
group of western states. emitting WyO-
ming, it increased nearly four times as
fast as the population. In Wyoming It
increased only about half as fast as the
population. In a case like this, an ounce
OF fact is worth a ton of theory.
DR.. Fernand Deschamps, secretary Of
the Sociological Society of Belgium,
lately came to this country In inyesti-
gate woman suffrage. He is Catholic.
He talked with Archbishop Ireland,
who told him that equal suffrage In the
western states worked well, and with
Cardinal Gibbons. who told him it
worked badly. when the cardinal said
that / smiled inwardly," said DIR. De-
schamps for had just come back
| from the equal suffrage states, and
knew better He had visited Wyo-
ming, Colorado, Utah and Kansas. and
had questioned many Catholic priests.
as we'll as men of other denominations,
lawyers and doctors, and men and
women in many different walks of life.
In all my Investigations" he said, Il
found only two persons who said that
equal suffrage had had any bad effect
upon the family. Those were one
Catholic priest and one German saloon-
keeper Even in Utah the Catholic
bishop told me that while woman suf-
frage was rather contrary to his feel
Iings as a matter of sentiment, yet he
must acknowledge that ne had never
known or heard of any harm resulting
from 1T -