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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
One Editors Observations.
]sumner Gazette.I

]Sumner GaZettel
We have seen the time when a coun-
try weekly gave more space and twice
the labor to editorials In their strict
sense than to the affairs of the neigh
borhood where published, but the local
page and the rural correspondence
page, the 1dlest gossip that finds it's
way into type, has so far encroached
on the editorial page that the latter has
become minor feature, even in our
dailies, while the paper that gets right
into the home life of its constituency
and cheers and sympathizes and carries
sunshine in its way with not a shadow
in its tracks is il paper that needs no
defense, except that of it's own recti-
tude.
A minister of the gospel taught by
The Man of Galilee" follows his life
of labor and self-denial and dependency
buoyed up with the happy conscious
ness that he is doing his best to make
the world better; yet our privileges In
this line so far exceed his; he awaits
the people in dedicated temple we
invade the privacy of the family circle
and exert our influences for good or
Ill where it is most potent. How inn
portant 1t is then. that nothing impure
or unclean shall enter our columns!
Our papers should be as pure in senti-
ment, as free from smut and low insin-
uation and advertisements OF that
which is immoral and debasing as we
would have them were their full in
f1uence to become a practical realiZa-
ton in our own homes; nay, more; they
ought to be up to the highest ideal that
prevails in any other family of our
great newspaper community, SO your
paper and mine may ever stand ac-
quilted of lowering the standard OF
moral integrity. as viewed from any
mans standpoint. And thus we find ii.
After perusing half hundred ex-
changes and finding nothing that can
offend, with an occasional sermon, and
many a censure of that which is wrong,
we are led to mentally exclaim-"What
lot of preachers those editors are,
anyway, and how faithful to their
trust!'
The time will come to us all when
our great dividends will be those re-
sulting from we'll spent life. Our
mission is world wide, our calling ranks
with the clergy and the schoolmaster
and partakes of the nature of both;
for while they preach they teach, and
their teaching is supervised by ou;
preaching, and this is the triumVirate
of moral and educational forces that
shall save all the nations of the earth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
TOPICS OF THE
TIMES = = 2

/ Commenting upon The news that
some thief stole fourteen hogs from the
Soldiers Home at Marshalltown re-
| Gently the Council Bluffs Nonparei
/ suggests that this may be "retribution
for the porkers who used to follow the
soldiers home during the war;
| The general expression of editorial
opinion condemnatory Of Waterloos
attitude toward cclored citizens is an
added proof of the fair-mindedness OF
Iowa editorial writers. But it's hard on
Waterloo.
| The Des Moines City railway If given
certain privileges by the city council
| offers TO make fiat rate of 50 for flu
nerals. This. 1t is stated, will cut the
/ transportation charges for funerals
| from $50 to 500 down to a SIS note and
!. few nickels for street car fare Prob
ably the biggest item OF expense in con-
| rectitn with n funeral is that OF the
hiring of carriages. Many Of the poor
are practically barred from having a
funeral. owing to the heavy expense. II
| is President Folks idea :hat with flu
neral car poor and rich alike can give
| their beloved ones the respect In the
| final obsequies due them. For this rea-
son he suggests charge of IS for the
| use uf the car from the house of the
deceased to the burial grounds
M ,a6
in Chicago and carried to a hospital
two women, each claiming to be his
wife. rushed to his bedside. Then Cy-
pher confessed to leading a dual life,
but 1T made him feel like a decimal
point.
Hon. Fred White, erstwhile demo-
cratic nominee for governor, is running
for supervisor in Keokuk county.
democratic office seeker seems to be
much like pickerel-anythins that
glitters he grabs at.
cot all the unlucky dogs" moaned
the poor dog as the net fell over him,
Pm the worst yet
Nd, replied his captof, the sausage
maker, you are not the wurst yet, but
you viii he pretty soon"
Philadelphia Ledger.
Spank babies? Certainly. It's the
only system. When a baby has slept
all day and proposes to turn the night
Into one royal riot, sentiment flies
about 2 a. m, and practical realism
delivers the goods. - MarshalltoWn
Times Republican (evening paper).
Anyhow, we morning edition editors
know little about this phase of the
Observation-Disclosures Hawkeye..
This sounds like the same old excuse
for being out all night.
The county weeklies report new
scheme for the undoiny of the farmer
along rural delivery routes. chs
cago firm is sending out razors to these
patrons on approval, according to the
circular that accompanies the article.
The merits of the goods are extolled
and the farmer is requested to either
remit $1.50 for the ravor or return 1t.
There is an absence Of postage for It's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07

threshed timothy is about as good 70,
feed nc saw dust eolored green. and
/ that COURTS is about as big bungler
| as a stock chef as he IS as an Iowa
insurance detective'
ne ohdf.ei oak ! ''''es ''''i'N7
blehnlai election aihehoiaehe ousn' -
carry UNANIMOUSLY ior every sooo az :
shilleilt ~ III laNoi VI eiie
throwing season would be shortened,
jcandilatas would have time TO work
some between campaigns. and friend
ships would not be 50 often broken by
ms natt,n wind iammine election work
80 ~ o'
Did YOU ever pass the collection box
nj a church meatinse" asks the editor
of the Shenandoah World. I'VE did, last
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07

Man alive" said the preacher, your
farm doesn't need prayers it needs ma
nure."
When Phyllis lets me tie her shoe
My glad heart sings. Indeed
l do declare. I wouldn't care
Were she centipede.
Mount Morris Gll) Index.
How would a joint magazine article
by Consul Magelssen and Ellen NJ.
stone do?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
His Life Saved by Chan,berIain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.

".B. L. Dyer, weMknown cooper of
this town. says he believes Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a
Remedy saved his life last summer. He
had been sick for q month With what
the doctors call bilious dysentery, and
could get nothing to do him any good
until he tried this remedy. 1t gave him
immediate relief" says b. I. Little.
merchant. of Hancock, Md. For sale by
all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
FOLLOWING olscouRAelne PRECEDENT

"a The farmers in and near Wellsburg,
sGrundy county. are about to purchase
: \. bit of experience at 500 a chunk. The
scheme is to form cooperative COM
sany that shall sell the members every
thing they have to buy from a thresh-
ing machine TO a mug of beer. Each
member is to pay 500 for a block OF
stock and pledge himself to buy all of
his merchandise at the company store.
and in return is promised a dividend of
Is per cent on his stock. A Is per cent
investment usually is a very good thing,
.aut there are few "knockers' among
Wellsburg merchants who say that they
would be willing to pay farmer Is
sper cent of $100 year in return for all
of his trade and not ask him to make
any investment in their business at all,
but, of course, these men are not in
lterested in the cooperative scheme.
d The experience of many years, and
Farmers Alliance movement that swept
over the country in the SOS, has re-
corded the failure of hundreds of just
such mercantile enterprises. With only
one exception, that we know of, In Iowa
the grange" store has "petered out"
AT Rockwell an alliance has succeeded
supposedly because Of one fundamental
Is organization, which exacts a PEN
nv en- members for every purchase or
"a a.ade outside the alliance, or more
~ speaking, 1.-THE upon the
in every such purchase or sale,
2ple at Rockwell say that the al
has succeeded because one very
tional man has been kept in
i rge of its affairs during its entire
line. 1t Is more than probable that
IS ~ store would have succeeded under
he management OF this man.
S The reason grange stores do not sue
( iced is that no man ds heavily enough
gterasted to lie awake nights figuring
working sixteen hours a day to
it succeed. The fellow who puts
Swn capital into his business does
very thing or else he falls, hence
lis keeping store ae ross the street
the alliance" sto.e he sets too
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
AS I left her at her door she thanked

me with courteous grace.
you have done great deal for me, y
she said, giving me her hand. sit has
been beautiful. wonderful, day"
When / tod the Pilot all the days
doings he burst out:
what stupid and self righteous
fool | have been. | never though
there could be any canyon in her life.
How short our sight ISL and all that
night l could get almost no words from
him
That was the FIRST Of many visits to
Gwen. Not a week passed but Lady
Charlotte took the trail to the Meredith
ranch and spent an hour at Ovens
window. Often the Pilot found her
there But though they were always
pleasant hours to him he would come
home in great trouble about Lady Char
lotte.
'tShe is perfectly charming and doing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
Distress After EATING Cured.

Judge w. T. Holland. OF Greensburg.
La, who is well and favorably known,
says: 1.-TWO years ago suffered great
ly from indigestion. After eating great
distress would invariably result, lasting
for an hour or SO, and my nights were
restless. concluded to try Kodol Dys-.
pepsia Cure and it cured me entirely.
Now my sleep Is refreshing and ddges-
ton perfect" Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
Ohio and Indiana home Visitors Ex.
cursions,

On Sept. !, 8. Is and Oct. s. the Iowa
Central will run their annual Home
Visitors Excursions" to Ohio and In-
diana. Tickets will be on sale on abova
dates with limit for return thirty days
from date Of sale. For rates and de-
tails, call on agents or address. A. b.
Cults. G. p. & T. A., Iowa Central rail-
wav. Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
Rueklen,s Arnica salve.

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ton, ointment or balm for cuts, corns.
burns, boils, sores, felons, ulcers, letter,
salt rheum, fever sores, chapped hands,
skin eruptions; infal,ible for piles.
Cure guaranteed. Only % cents at
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
Special One Way co,o,.ise RATES.

SpeoI01 ono WY VUJOhJvs UUtO9s
On the drst and third TuesdayB-ae
each month to and including September
1908. the Iowa Central railway will selJ
colonist tickets to points In Arkansaos
southwest Missouri. Oklahoma. Kansas.
Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado
Texas. Louisiana, New Mexico. etc, 1t
extremely low rates. Call on local
agent. or address A. s. Cults. a r. -
q. 4. Minneapolis. for rates and further
Information.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Mason City GloDe-Gazette says
THE withdrawal of Sena tor Healy as a
senatorial candidate Is regarded III a
different light by different politicians.
BY most of them 1t is rot regarded so
much that he has a cinch on the federal
Corners to do business.
The Iowa Falls Citizen believes 'one
of the greatest foes to the progress of a
is afraid that the other fellow will make
a dollar. We are afraid shat comreti-
tor will get a job of printing, or sell a
few pounds of sugar, or a calico dress,
or administer a few pills, or make
money a little faster than we can 1t
is better for all to pull together. There
is then no time and energy wasted. A
community divided must fall Many
hands make the load light Every sue
cessful man helps to raise other people
up. Every failure helps to pull them
down. Jealousy is stumbling block
and an obstruction"
The Pocahontas County Sun sug-
gests that "the newspaper men OF the
state should refuse to advertise the
state fair hereafter for the considera-
ton of pass. The fair is sue cess,
due to the loyalty of the press, for
which there is handed ont pass worth
about SO cents to the holder. 1t Is the
outside towns that furnish the crowd
and the money; why should noe the
outside newspapers be paid for their
advertising?"
William E. Curtis saying that limo
thy cut for seed leaves the threshed
product as good for feed as that cut for
hay" recalls to the Eagle Grove Eagle
an editorial of Tom Ways when pro-
prietor of the Britt News, on How to
Dry Up a Cow" which provoked the
following comment from Bailey IF
one of Tom Ways editorials won't dry
UP COW there is nothing under heaven
that will" The Eagle declares "the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07

"she is perfectly charming and doing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
THE q SKY q PILOT
RALPH CONNER
"The Man From Glengarry,"
"Glengarry School Days"
and "Black Rock"
CHAPTER XIX.
Author of ----
Copyright 1899, by FLEMMlNe H. REvELL COMPANY
THROUGH OVENS WINDOW

THROUGH OWENS WINDOW.
YlHEN told the Pilot Of Lady
i " Charlotte's purpose to visit
-ssT.I Gwen he was not too well
tgNyGkA1 pleased What does she
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06

In the provisional! towns too. nrris-
inSs were numerous. ard throughout
the land there were evidences OF dis
affection. But the government insist
ed on strict observance of the laws up
TO 1928, when an amended law adjust
ed the duties by a sliding scale, where
after the duties were to be governed
by the average price of the English
market: when the average price OF
wheat was 30 shillings the duty was
5Os.. eight pence per quarter: when 46s
the duty was 40s.. Sd. per quarter; when
56s.. IL was 30s.. Sd per quarter: when
62s., IT was 24s., Sd. per quarter: when
Us. 1t was IS. Sd. per quarter; and
when lbs. II was Is. per quarter" As
can readily be seen. the amended law
did not favor the importation of cheap
grain to much more extent than the
original measure.
The suffering amongst the poor con-
tinued and the provision laws also bore
heavily upon them These laws COM
pleted the agricultural protection af-
forded by the corn laws. strictly pro-
hibiting the importation of foreign
cattle and foreign meats. Butter and
lard could be imported. but they were
not to be used as food. the custom
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06

peal the home and foreign grain trade
continued subject of elaborate ,egisla-
ton The laws, during this long period
dealt with the levying of protective
duties, in imposing restrictions
amounting to prohibition, and in grant
ing bounties for the encouragement of
expectation. Space permits considera-
ton only of the corn laws of the last
century those in existence from 1915
to 1916
Immediately after the Napoleonic
war in Europe. there was almost a
famine in Great Britain. there being
poor harvests at home and supplies
from abroad being cut off by Napo-
Icons Continental System" devised
to destroy English power and COM
merce. The laboring classes and trades
men suffered severely, the agricultural
folk, landlords and farmers, alone en-
joying prosperity. But when presently
the war was over and ports open, for
eiSn grain came pouring in and prices
fell rapidly. The landlords became
alarmed and craftily spoke, in their
appeals for reforms. of the distress of
the English farmer. They asked par
lament to resist the importation Of for
eign grain, and insisted that as the
cost OF cultivation was higher in Eng
land than in the foreign lands from
which the grain was arriving, the Eng
lish farmer be protected In 1915.
parliament. consisting almost wholly of
landlords. enacted the corn laws. ex-
Guiding foreign wheat except at high
rates of duty. until the market price
should reach SOS per quarter; and put
ting like restriction on the importa-
ton of other grains.
Though considerable sympathy was
aroused by oratorical flights in behalf
Of the agriculturist, the law was looked
upon by many of the people as afro
cious Students averred that the indus
trial situation might have been other
wise relieved than by such a radical
measure as raising the price CT common
food stusfs; that rents might have been
lowered. improved methods of cult!
walton adopted; that the corn laws
were passed by the landlords in order
to maintain high rents and keep out
foreign grain. The masses. as was to
be expected. did not confne their ex-
pressions of displeasure to verbal crit
icism riots and lawlessness followed
the enactment of the laws. On London
walls were written the words Bread
or Blood" bread steeped in blood was
set in Carlton house occupied by the
prince regenD and the mob attacked
the houses of some of the unpopular
advocates of the new bill The mill
| tary was called OUT. the house of parlia-
ment kept guarded by soldiers. and the
whole of London was in state of re-
volt
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06
HER TARIFF PROBLEM
Legislation in That Direction Al
ways Unpopular in England.
A GLANCE AT The PAST
brilliant Men Have Fallen Over This
Political stumbling BIock-Tbe
"Corn Laws" and Their Re-
sult-DIts of History.

Some one has well said that the pres
ent crisis In England regarding pro-
tective tariff is not government cri-
sis. but national one. that if the
changes advocated by Mr.. Chamberlain
are effected they will reverse tradi-
lions and discard principles of politi-
cal economy that are Unborn in the
British people"
1t is prophesied that next spring a
upset the nations free trade policy. but
it goes without saying that in the
meanwhile three different factions of
the public will be toiling strenuously
in the cause individually espoused. The
factions are as follows-those who
stand boldly for free trade; those who
stand fer protective tariff, and mid
way between these a conservative ele-
ment with Mr.. Balfour at the head,
body that believes reforms are needed
to relieve the industrial situation, but
is ayerse to hasty. radical action.
A protective tariff is bound at first
to be immensely unpopular with the
hie'oo vi tIC I@HSiou pcOple, WIZ iOI 81
long has held as gospel buying in the
cheapest market and selling in the
dearest A little review of English
history gives us some idea of the Brit
ish temper on the delicate question of
taxation of food stuffs Though per-
haps little vague about it, still all
have heard something of the excite
ment caused on the enactment of the
corn laws, and the state of feeling that
forced their repeal a few years later.
In the light of impending events. it
may be of interest to go into detail
concerning past legislation on the mat
ter of abolition of free trade.
The corn laws Of English history
were series of laws enacted at differ
ent times through various centuries
Qrom 1896 to 1S42) and until their re-
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06

house men being ordered to spoil them
by smearing with tarred stick. to de-
stroy their value as a food and make
them fit only as grease for wheels or
to be used for smearing sheep With
bread purposely made dear, the import
of cattle and of flesh meat prohibited.
and with lard and butter wilfully re-
duced from articles of food to grease
for wheels, there is no difficulty in ac-
counting for the frequent murmurs Of
discomfort and for the starvation
among the poorer classes in every part
of the kingdom"
Now arose in earnest an anti-corn-law
agitation. In 1888, small company Of
men met AT Manchester and formed a
new anti-corn association. Others
Joined with these men, Golden among
them. and from the moment of joining
Golden took a leaders, part in the
work He presented to his associates
petition asking for the repeal of all
the laws relating to the importation
of grain; active work was carried on by
him and other supporters of free trade.
and ere long the anti-corn league be-
came a rover to be considered. And
not few landlords began to rank
themselves with those standing for a
repeal of the oppressive laws 1t be-
came more and more question of the
good of the many.
In 1S41, when Sir Robert Peel re-
turned to power it was as protec-
ZIONIST put the great statesman soon
saw fit to change his mind in regard
to high tariff; and. though bitterly op-
posed by members of his party.
brought about notifications of the
corn laws. and tariff reduction-ths
first great step toward free trade From
1915 to 1916, the newspaper writer's and
orators labored strenuously for the re-
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06

peal Of the laws. and Sir Robert be-
came less and less of protectionist
1t was under his leadership that q
measure was at last put through that
proved practically the repeal of the
corn laws. A biographer thus speaks
of the statesman's change Of views:
Peel had returned to power the cham
pion of protection. His first great
achievement was the extension Of the
freedom of trade"
KATHERINE POPE
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06
Not Charged n Cent.

A group of representatives were in
the cloalroom telling stories of thor
experience in court when Delegate
Smith contributed this incident from
Arizona.
Out in one of the border towns a case
was in progress, one of the lawyers be-
ing an eastern man who was new to the
country.
"Will you charge the jury. your
honor?" he asked. when the evidence
had been submitted.
ooh, no, | guess rot" replied the
judge. Il never charge them anything.
They don't know much. anyway, and
let EN- have all they can make
Washington Post.
The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06
A Gentle Hint

He (sadly)-There's many a good
thing lost by not asking for It,
She-Well. thank Heaven! next year
is leap year.-Judgs.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
CIVIC FEDERATION.
National Organization Meets i'm Chi
cago to Strive for Definite Plan
to Prevent Strikes.

Chicago, Oct. 16.-The "open-
shop" question was the chief topic OF
discussion at the opening session of the
National Civic Federation in Steinway
hall yesterday. President John Mitch
ell, of the United Mine Workers urged
the rights of union men to refuse to
work with nonunion men. Thomas
Woodlock, editor Of the Wall Street
Journal, New York, argued against 1t.
Capitalists, railroad presidents, nan
ufacturers,. and merchants are meeting
with leaders Of principal trades unions
and workmen on q common ground at.
the convention. in an effort to arrive at
some definite plan for preventing
strikes and lock-outs. SEE
Chicago Oct. 17.-Before the National
Civic Federation conference +. X. Web
ster, a Chicago manufacturer employing
hundreds of men, won hearty approval
by a declaration in favor of the eight
hour day and by %indorsing the unions
demand for that concession. Socialism
and its advocates were rebuked by labor
leaders and capitalists by George Koop4
being prevented from speaking. Several
interesting papers were read.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Man Kills His wife, Wounds a BY
stander and Then Commits Sui
eide In Menasha, Wis.

Menasha, Wis, Oct. H~.-Frederick
Crawford, of Oshkosh, shot and killed
his wife in this city. wounded a mai
named L. j. J%ourdain, and then blew u
his own brains. Crawford and his VIE
had been separated for some time. A
meeting had been planned between the
two for Tuesday night. AS Mrs. Craw-
ford was passing the public library
Crawford drew a pistol and shot her
dead. Mr.. Jourdain, who is engaged IN
the insurance business, stepped up and
asked Crawford what the trouble was.
Crawford, without making any reply,
fired on Jourdain, severely wounding
him, but there are hopes Of his recovery.
Crawford then sent a bullet through his
brain, dying instantly. Crawford was a
plumber by trade, and was we'll known
in Oshkosh, where he had made his
home for years. He was so years old and
his wife 80 years. They had three chill
dren, which were taken by the wife when
they separated.