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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
GOOD ROADS.
[Contributer to Wright County

Monitor.
It is the duty of everyone who has
an idea. on road building to let 1t be
known for the benefit of the public. II
| there is an exception to this rule 1T is,
that it's not necessary for the farmer
to bother his head about the good roads
problem for we have nothing to do with
it, except, of curse, to put up the
money.
I will mention three ways that the
local roads might be constructed for
the benefit of the communities. but
can give no advice as to national roads
running endways thru the country IN
competition with railroads. We are
we'll supplied with graders in Wright
county and, we must have q heavy roll
|1er to follow up and down after the
grader as it build the grade. to smooth
and pack solid. The roller must be
supplied with two spraying apparatuses
one to spray Texas oil, and the other
some substance that will "set" the oil
and prevent its escape; such a sub
stance might be obtained at any drug
store. A grade constructed and treated
in this manner would be proof against
capillary attraction or hydrostatic
pressure from the bottom, and would
shed water from the top like a Fish
brand slicker.
In considering the second formula
for good roads it is necessary to state
that the u of bad roads in sunlme
is water, and in winter snow. The ap-
proved way of keeping water off is to
build a roof, and really the most sensi-
BILE way to nave good roads is to put a
roof of shingles over it, with a bicycle
track on top and a shelf on each side
for footmen. When winter comes side
up to keep the snow out. The saving
on umbrellas, parasois, hats, etc, would
soon pay for such a roof. And think
of the rainy day trade in u town.
The third way to have good roads IS
to keep them frozen UP, which would be
a very easy matter as soon as We have
an ice plant in Clarion. which 1T is hop
ed will not be very long coming, as
thai is the only way we can have
strictly healthful ice water. When we
nave the ice plant all we will have to
do is lay, say an nch pipe, up the mid
de OF each road, to within a mile or two
of the dividing line between this and
our neighboring town, and then turn
the icy blast into the pipe. and there
will be no trouble in keeping the road
frozen solid, except 1t might be during
dog days. and they are always dry.
To prevent any chilling effect on ege
tation the old air could be allowed to
escape in some farmers cream house
a few pipes could circle around
and come back TO the town and exhaust
the court house basement in search
of something to cool.
The last method mentioned would be
much the best, especially for agricul-
ture and horticulture and even culture
itself, as 1t would keep the traveller
cool, afford no roosting places for bats,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
ment and cultivation of their lands:

Alden, Iowa, April 2j.-Times-Re-
publican, Marshalltown, Iowa: After
an experience of about twenty years
liling for myself and as a civil engineer
giving advice about the size of tile, and
also doing the leveling and giving the
grades for the same. the year 1902 gave
me several very uncomfortable sur
prises. Land that l thought had been
thoroughly tiled out and where / had
put in what most persons thought an
excessive amount of tile, both as to size
and number, after the ground became
saturated in June the low spots and
what had formerly been ponds filled
with water. This water did not sink
away quickly as in former years, but
remained long enough to destroy the
crops and wet up all the land around
these low spots. To relieve these ponds
in II case / dug a large open ditch six
feet wide on the bottom owe the line OF
outlet tile, which is three feet below
the bottom of this open ditch. This
ditch runs to the center OF what was
called a s~iNty-acre pond n from this !
have opened up other smaller open
bitches as far as possible over tile al
ready laid.
These open bitches are a nuisance
and are expensive to bridge and keep
up. but from my observation are the
only things that will insure the letting
off the surface water fast enough to
save the crops.
When ground becomes thoroughly
saturated the water doesn't seem to get
into the tile quickly anil hence larger
tile and more of them don't carry off the
water fast enough.
This same principle is also applica-
BILE to roads. Thing is all right and
should be used very much more than it
is, but as the roads are in use constant
|ly, unless the surface water is gotten
away Immediately the 10y spots will
soon be cut up and deep holes dug,
whereas IL the surface water were got
ten rid of quickly by open bitches
wherever they can be put in. and then
tile were laid in the bottom of these
open bitches say two or three feet down,
the roads would soon dry. and dry roads
as a rule are good roads and easily kept
smooth.
statistics show that while last year
was very wet, averaging about forty
five inches of rainfall, We: in 1881 they
had almost ffty-two irches at Ames
and hfty-four inches at Albion, besides
there were other wet years, such as
1896, etc, so we should he prepared for
more of them. w. w. HALE"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
Large American Farms.

While the United States census re-
ports 100000 farms averaging LAG
acres each in the southwest states and
territories, the average size is 500 acres
each. Colonel c.. c. Slaughter, of Dali
las, Texas, has 100000 acres of farm
and ranch land. In the Panhandle dis
trict of Texas the Capitol syndicate,
of which Senator c. B. Farwell, of Illi-
nois, is the head, has a ranch of 5000,
900 acres, or about ten times as large
as the state of Connecticut. They raise
from 10000 to 10000 acres of corn and
other forage crops and ship from Is, 200
to 10000 beef steers each year; $50
cowboys and fifty farm hands are m
ployed. In Oklahoma is one ranch of
10000 acres. They raised last year
5000 acres of wheat, 5000 acres of for
age, millet and kaffir corn; 5000 to TO-
900 cattle are shipped each year. AL
tho the expenses of running the ranch
are $4,000 a year the profits the last
year were $4,000. The Forsha farm
in central Kansas has 5000 acres. On
it are a Touring mill, a complete wealth.
err bureau, %postoffice for owner and m
ployes. gas plant and long-distance
telephone. The wheat grown is
made into flour. There is the
largest field of alfalfa in the United
States, 100 in one tract. This cuts
three crops a year., about one ton at
each cutting. Frank Rockefeller has
IL, 900 acres of grazing and farming
land in western Kansas, of which about
5000 acres are under cultivation and
the rest in alfalfa and timothy pastures.
There are some of the finest bred
Hereford and Shorthorn cattle in the
world on this farm. valued at $3.50, 900,
including one $4,000 bull. The grain
for these cattle is grown and ground
on the farm. He intends to onvert
10000 acres of pasture land into alf-
alta. The cattle and horse barns are
of iron and tone. John w. Stewart,
of Wellington, Kan, has 40 farms,
all separate and in different parts of
the state. 1t is not uncommon for a
re--,-~ - thr-e -Nst'r-~ - %-.,- ee.eo,
harvesters, a dozen plows and as many
ts.4l a.af,@sseis IL oiie t..ae. FIFTY inel
make a good harvesting crew for a
farm there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
Should Uuions Incorporate?
IBy Edgar q. Clark.

@So
In all important conflicts between
capital and labor which result in
stopping production or transportation,
three great interests are involved.
Capital and labor are involved as the
principals in a contest in which each
strives to gain conditions most favor
able to itself, writes Edgar +. Clark,
grand chief conductor of the Order of
Railway Conductors to Golfers Week
ly. The third interest involved is the
public, and upon this interest incon-
v%enience and loss necessarily fall.
Compulsory arbitration by Legislative
enactment enforced by the judiciary,
and the police power of the state.
would mean that, on the one hand, the
employer might be forced to continue
his business under conditions which
meant certain and i~rretrievable loss
and financial ruin, and, on the other
hand, that the employees might be
forced, against their will, to continue
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
: from Canada and

number of emigrants from Canada and
lands across the sea, but all this Is
changed. The emigrants are coming.
probably in greater numbers than be-
fore, but they, like the farmer boys,
are attracted to the towns instead OF. I
the farmer. So the captains of Yer
mont's greatest industry are handi-
capped by a lack of workers, and SO
they will remain until a better adj
justment of the contry's Industrial af-
fairs brings relief. This time is surely
coming, but when, and what the farm
ers will do in the meantime, are still
unanswered questions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
INCORPORATING BOR

Nj. Edgar e. Clark, grand chief on
ductor of the Order Of Railway Con-
ductors and a member of the recent coal
strike commission, contributes some In
teresting ideas upon the question of in
cooperating labor unions. His views as
published in Golfers Weekly are given
in another column OF the T.-R. today.
MI. Clark contends that capital incor-
porates in order to escape responsibility
and he does not believe that the public
should ask labor unions to incorporate
in order to assume responsibility. It
would seem to us that this view of a
corporation is rather limited, for the
reason that the main object in forming
a corporation Of capital is to give that
corporation an individuality to make of
it a person before the law, with power
to transact business, enter into con-
tracts and enjoy all the business liberties
OF an actual person, while thousands
may have contributed to it's capital
stock and thereby share In its RESPONSE
bilities as well as its profits. (.
The demand for an Incorporated la
Dor union, as we have heard 1t, is for. a
labor corporation that shall become, in
law, a business person with power to
make contracts and be holden for the
contracts that it makes. Incorporated
labor could approach iii its corporate
person the corporate person of organ
lied capital, enter into contract for a
definite period upon stipulated terms
and not only could organized labor le-
gally hold incorporated capital to its
agreement, but capital could nave a ie-
gal hold on the labor corporation for a
strict performance of its pledges in the
contract. AS the situation now exists,
labor approaches capital without legal
responsibility, while Incorporated capt.
tai is bound by law to perform its COM
tracts. Labor's organization has full
power to infiict injury upon capital, but
no responsibility in law to DO as it
agrees.
It hardly seems clear that the de-
mand for incorporated labor seeks a
means to sue a labor union for dam
ages that may arise from its refusal to
sign a contract or for any acts of vio-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
OPEN DRAINAGE NECESSARY.

Mr.. w. w. Hale, of Alden, an extern
sive owner of Hardin county lands and
an accredited civil engineer as we'll as 4
practical farmer, in a letter to the
Times-Republican gives his method of
relieving wet lands by open as we'll as
tile drainage. Mr.. Hale's communica-
ton. which is given below, will be of
great interest to farm owners who find
drainage necessary to the full improve
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
Due Notice 10 Served.

Due notice Is hereby served on the
public generally that DeWitt's. Witch.
Hazel Salve is the only salve on the
market that is made from the pure.
unadulterated witch hazel. DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve has cured thou
sands of caees Of piles that would not
yield to any other treatment, inc this
fact has brought out many worthless
counterfeits. Those persons who get
genuine DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye
are never disappointed. because It
cures.
Good for grandpa, good for grand
ma, good for father and mother, good
for the children. Keeps the whole fam
lily we'll. Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents.
Mcbride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

lence by its members. Business cor
porations today are constantly nego-
tiating contracts. The law does not re-
quire that any of the proposed con-
tracts be made. 1t merely enisorces the
performance of a contract when made
and so would it be with an incorporated
labor union. The law would force it to
live up to the terms of a contract, but If
the labor corporation should decline to
accept an employers terms and the men
should quit work in 4 body, incor-
lporated labor would be exercising nc
more than the liberty now accorded all
corporations of capital. Likewise the
Incorporated labor union that had re-
fused to make a certain contract could
not be holden for damages in case a
member broke the peace any more than
are c%apitalistic corporations now held
for damages when a stakeholder as
saults his neighbor.
It is true, however, that changed laws
for the Incorporation Of labor unions
might be necessary, as Mr.. Clark sug-
gests. The whole right of labor to orr
ganize and make its demands is predi-
Gated upon the assumption that indus
try is not altogether the barter and sale
of labor for a hire, but hat there is a
certain element of cooperation in 1t,
/. ~ 4 that fho nr,,1J0,o 49, ~ b \ . ohn1-n
and aside from his wage. Likewise.
granting this premise, tie law for in
cooperating labor unions should recog-
nize that the rights of capital to enjoy
protection for its property from de-
struction by the sudden and concerted
refusal of men to work should be estab-
lished. Compulsory arbitration is im-
practicable and unscientific. as shown
by Mr.. Clark. Capital can not be right
fully compelled to operate against its
will nor can men be rightfully COM.
PEELED TO labor against their will, but
some compromise and mutual conces-
sion of these fundamental rights might
De ABOUT IN a wise law Ior IN
cooperating labor unions that. would
give capital protection from having its
mines destroyed by the refusal of men
to work the pumps ana give laboring
men some protection from the destruc-
ton of their property incident to sud
den s%hut-downs of the laill. II seems
as tho an increase of responsibility on
the part of both capital and labor is the
legal consummation to be desired.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

moths or other winged pests, and would
freeze the army worm and other creep
ing insects stiff, and better thar all
else. it would solve the good roads
problem and political road builders
would return to their fence work as of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
Makes a Clean Sweep.

There's nothing like doing a thing
thoroughly. OF all the salves you ever
hard of, Bucklin's Arnica Salve is the
best. It sweeps away and cures Burns,
Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boils. Ulcers.
Skin Eruptions, and Piles. It's only
25 cents and guaranteed to give salts
faction by George p. Powers, drug
Cfof
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
Mr.. RoosEvELr's NOMINATION..

LIE 4NGW 1Olh ESuu GaltOIldAly dc
cuses Mr.. Roosevelt of playing to thu
galleries.
first message to congress, say the Sun
there has been no public act of Mr.
Roosevelt's which has not beer
undertaken and executed with an eye
| single To its effect upon his candidacy
He has Gone nothing perfunctorlly or a.
a man might who was only conscious
that he was President of the United
States and that he was doing his duty
Mr.. Roosevelt, with that fateful inten-
sitN OF purpose which 80 %singularly dis
tincuiahes his character, has permitted
ratbing 10 obscure his vision. The
presidency by election. as we'll as by
TIE decree Of Fate. has never passed
from before his waking vision for a
moment. Now. however, that he sees
himself intrenched in the confidence
and in the affections of the American
people he permits himself a little re-
laxation.',
The Sun compares Mr.. Roosevelt as
"a strong man to the Napoleon who
moved down the mob at the Tuilleries
but adds"Napoleon did 10 incite the
mob to come to the Tuiileries.'' The
entire drift of the article in the Stun is
an attempt to set Theodore Roosevelt
before its readers In the light of a
demagogue with an eye single to per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
In Wall street and among the. few
who demand special privileges the
Suns structures may meet approval and
concurrence. Outside of that cotelie its
charges will be considered more akin
to SANDER than close to facts. Under
standing thoroughly President Roose-
velt's burning desire to hold his office
as a gift from the people instead of
by accident the people of the United
States coincide with large unanimity
in that desire. They consider 1t the
natural craving of a thoroughly natural
to finish a task we'll begun and
touch a reward already earned by SER
vice. Mr.. Roosevelt has made no secret
of his intense desire to succeed him
self. Perhaps he has made the most
of his opportunities to strengthen his
position politically. The imputation
against his sincerity, his manliness and
high sense of duty will be received by
the American people as a whole with
deserved contempt and resentment. Mr..
Roosevelt is a new type of public man.
He is as original as Andrew Jackson,
and unlike. Jackson is willing to learn.
He is honest and ready to stand to his
pledges as his endeavor to carry the
policy of his predecessor has made
plain. His public acts and private life
have alike been pleasing to the people.
He is a strong man. Strong in manli-
ness, mentality and morals. He has
grown in diplomatic skillfulness while
losing nothing In virility and master
fulness in dealing with public ques-
lions. The east favors his nomination;
the west unanimously demands it. The
Sun and the Wall street crowd must
stand aside for Roosevelt and the
c~ommonalty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
ARCHBISHOP keANE.s LETTER.

The face of the Roman Cathollc
church is set, like fin against the liquor
traffic. Archbishop Keaae. surrounded
by the liquor interests at Dubuque, has
been outspoken and active in opposition
to ~intemperance and its handmaiden,
the saloon. In his recent pas
toral letter to the Catholic commune
cants of his archdiocese he makes still
more distinct his own attitude and that
of his church. wherever saloons ex-
ist," says the archbishop to his parish
toner's, they are public temptations to
drink. They solicit, they allure to this
dangerous indulgence, INK 1t is not to
be wondered at that mul.itudes fall vic
tins to the temptation. Once a young
ma has put his foot across their
threshold he has taken tie first step in
u slippery and downward path, in which
thousands have found tl;eir ruin. And
what assurance has he that he will be
more ortnna than those others? Can
he hope that the grace of God will be
with him TO strengthen and protect
him ? Alas, the Lord has warned us that
he that loveth the danger shall perish
In it. The dear Saviour whom they
receive into their souls in holy COM
munion, will certainly not accompany
them into the saloon; and they ought to
make it the rule of their life to go no.
where thai they could not ask our Lord
to go with them.
But our experience, dear brethren,
is not a new one. 1t has been genera
ton after generation, the experience
of pastor and people in every part of
our country. WhenIthe bishops of the
United States were assembled in plen-
airy council in the year 1865 they found
1t necessary to warn Catholics against
this great evil in the following words:
Let pastors frequently warn their flocks
to shun saloons. and let them repel from
the sacraments liquor dealers who en-
courage the abuses of drink, especially
on Sunday
And since the worse scandals owe
their origin to excess in drinking, we
Jxhort pastors, and we implore them for
Ove of Jesus Christ, to devote all their
.nergies to the e%xtirpation OF the vice
II intemperance. To that end we deem
worthy of praise the zeal of those who,
sheb better to guard agains.excess.p pledge
themselves 10 total abstinence.
Ia-.E
There is 4 marvellous power to reform
in The forsc CT The Ransaa Catholic
church. re language CT taa areh-
bishop n lis aii,asliaei! STAND against
the iiaaor eE..sai il t.e recent cleo
ions il his hol.ac save no Goubtl
that this fcsts Will BIZ s.doiousiy en-
ployed tcvaid the So preston OF In
Temperance ara the Incubation OF So
briefly and abstinence among its com
m~unicants. Roman Catholics will low
er their standing in the church by en-
gaging in the sale of iiduer and drunk
enness viii be held as no venisfI sin
at the confessional. When the priests
and prelates OF the Catholic church in
augerate Il crusade against saloons
their influence is incalculable among
their peculiar people. Archbishop
Keanefs letter Is one of the banners
above a mighty force hat Is moving to
the aid of genuine temperance reform.
II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

Harvard were he to succeed to Its presI-
dency."
The Waterloo Courier believes the
good roads question ought not to be an
~insolvable problem. The coming ma
tional convention ought to succeed In
thoroughly calculating The proposition
and formulating plans of procedure tnat
will insure the early commencement OF
the work.
THE stand ~stillers persist in CLASH
flying tariff modification n tariff
tinkering in the same category, but they
are as far apart as the north and south
poles" remarks the Freeman-Tribune.
When tariff modification is wanted the
republican party is asked to do it. How
ever, if the republican party refuses to
respond, the people are table to turf
the work over to the tinkers in the
democratic party. We all know what
that means. Then let the party in pow
er be reasonable and thus prevent any
tariff smashing policy"
Noting that the Capital suggests that
the Iowa idea" will have to be put in
cold storage If 1t survives until the next
Republican state convention, the Grin
nell Gazette says: The trusts and
their friends a been trying for years
to kill all such ideas. but when the next
republican platform is made. unless dis
honorable and dishonest means are re-
which is now so generally known as the
Iowa idea will represent the greatest
and best life, and be the strongest, most
drawing of the platform, and it will not
represent Iowa republication alone, but
national republicanism IS well, not
withstanding the sights of such or
gans as the Capital and the American
Economist"
The Sioux City Tribune thinks Adj
miral Cowles' suggestion to name some
OF the new ships of the navy after the
vessels thai won renown during the war
of 1912 a good idea.
The DUBUQUE Times notices that "the
Iowa City Republican is hard at work
promoting the glorious cause of har-
mony in the republican party of Iowa
by characterizing the friends of reci-
%procity as democrats, free traders and
demagogues."
ut never hurts a city to correct err
! rors and wrong-doing, and the news
paper that will hide the omissions and
self-eyident jobbery of city officials to
SHIELD the good name of a city is just
about as useful a member of society as
the mar who hides a thief in his hay
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

To Cure a Gold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
If 1t fails to cure. e. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. IS cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Hawkeye honestly thinks "Theo-
dore Roosevelt would make a strong
and powerful factor in the affairs of
Harvard were he to succeed to its presr-
dency.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

why, all my moneys gone!"
Yes, l took it, dear"
What under heavens did o do that
for?"
why, I knew you wouldn't let me
have it If / asked YOU Life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24

harvesters, a dozen plows and as many
eos.l ~,..if,~sseis IL one ,..le. FIFTY ineil
make a good harvesting crew for a
farm there.