Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-16
Colored Population of Des
Moines Discussing Disfran-
chisement In the South
WOMEN ESPECIALLY ACTIVE
The Negroes Number 5000 There, Have
Two or Three Churches, and Many
Social and Political clubs-WiII Send
Delegates to State Meetins-lntiner-
ant Doctors Violate Law.


Des Moines, of whom there are several
hundred, have become deeply Interested
In the question of negro disfranch1se-
ment in the south and the attitude OF
prominent men all over the country
on the question. The negroes OF Des
Moines number about 5000 and they
have two or three excellent churches
and a. number of social and political
clubs. In these clubs and churches the
negro suffrage question Is being 1ree's
discussed, and the negroes are prepared
to take some action if that seems to pe
necessarv But the colored women are
even more active than the men ana
more alert to their interests. One OF
tho colored women stated that the pur-
pose of the club movement among Tue
col,red women is more TO secure u
chance for them in the everyday affairs
OF life. but certainly not to attempt
tn SECURE for them here or anywhere
else social equality. A state meetlhs
:
women's clubs for Iowa is to be heid
in Davenport, May 1927, wnen tnele
will be delegates present from "
tumwa, Des Moines, Oskaloosa, heo-
Euk. Muscatine, Cedar Raplds, MI
Pleasant and other cities The 1eder-
alton will discuss questions reiatins ="
cluD work, federation work. practlcat
methods of social betterment and KIN
1rNtNy t.n
tircd topics. The meeting is llkely 10
develop something Of more than state
interest as it is the plan OF the Des
Moines clubs to send the best OF thelI
women.
n. r. Wright, state dairy commits
sioner Says he is glad the farmers IN
statute season is over for this, year
He already has some dates ahead Tor
the summer and fall, but the main
part of the work is done. No other
dairy commissioner of Iowa has ever
done so much in the way of visiting the
Institutes and meetings and spreading
broadcast reliable information In regard
to dairying. Mr.. Wright has addressed
meetings the past winter as 1oiioWs'
In December. farmers Institutes at
Little Rock, Fayette, Wilton Junction,
Edgewood. Pilot Mound, Scranton ana
Corning; buttermakers meetings al
Dyersville. Jewell Junction, Extra and
Marengo; and the state farmers instl-
tute in Des I1oines. In January ne
spoke at farmers Institutes In Central!
City, Humboldt, Rockwell City, Oxford
Junction, Andrew Floyd, Iowa Falls,
Emmetsburg, Walker. Ankeny, TripoI
and Spencer; before the executive come
mittee of the national ASSOCIATION OF
dairy and food commissioners In Chi
cago. and before the eastern Iowa but
.termakers and dairymen association at
Manchester. In February he spoke at
institutes at Sac City, Northwood.
Osaee. Audubon. Forest City. Esther
VILE, Ruthven and Nashua also IN the
same month before the state dairy
association at Cedar Rapids. and be-
fore the South Dakota buttermakers at
Aberdeen. Since then he has spoken IN
Waterloo, Fairfield Nilesviile, Greeley,
Dows, Alden and Lake Park. This
makes forty-three meetings attendeH
during practically three months In
regard to the work done at these var
ious meetings and the general interest
taken Mr.. Wright says:
II have been been surprised at the
interest taken In butter making the
past winter. The people have taken
hold in u manner far to exceed my eX-
3pectations They have in almost every
instance manifested great interest IN
the work and l feel that the meetings
have done good. In fact have almost
persuaded myself that we in Iowa are
at the beginning of a decided revival
of interest in the subject of dairylng.
l believe the dairy sections OF the state
will be enlarged and there Will be
creameries in counties where they have
not been before. In what l nave had
to say to the farmers in those counties
where there is now very little dairying
I have pointed out that 1t is In the dairy
counties of the state that we see not
here and there farm We'll improved,
but practically all of the farms with
good buildings. 1 believe, from all that
1 have seen and heard the past winter,
that the dairy interests of iowa are
about to be greatly revived and en-
larged."
A determined effort is to be made by
some of the itinerant doctors doing
business in the state to break down
the law which requires them to put up
$3.50 a year for license. A case from
Emmett county in which fine was inn
posed on doctor for failure to have
the license has been appealed to the
supreme court as test and several
of the itinerants in the state are IN
terested in the case. But case has
been brought here by Council Bluffs
itinerant to recover from the state the
fees he has paid on account OF licenses
as an itinerant doctor He sets up the
claim that the law is unconstitutional
and that it fails to operate with equali-
ty on all classes of persons processing
to heal. The supreme court has hither-
to sustained the law in its every part.
but the itinerants claim that this was
done on a hearing where their side of
the case was not fairly presented.
Gov Dockery, of Missouri, will meet
Gov. Cummins at Keokuk on the oc-
5casion of the visit of President Roose-
welt and his party to that city. The