Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-28
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR BEES.
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The Iowa supreme court on Thurs
day rendered a decision holding the
owner of bees responsible when they
go out into the highway and attack
other domestic animals" In the view
of the court, bees, while generally
classed as ierae naturae, are so useful
and common as to be all but domesti-
Gated, and keepers of them are able to
control them limos as certainly as
cows and horses and hogs and the like.
1t is admitted by the court that nothing
could be done by the keeper of bees to
protect everybody and everything ev-
erywhere from their attacks. These
might occur miles from Ike hives and
beyond his reach. But-:n the language
or the decision
Bees have fixed habitations. The To-
cation tor these Is always "a matter for
his determination and it is not too
much to exact of him the exercise of
ordinary prudence in so placing the
hives as to avoid unnecessary danger
to those who are likely to make law
full use OF the premises or the highway
near by. In other words he must use
his WI so as not to interfere with the
rights of Others"
In the case at bar. appealed from
Warren county, a peddler had hitched
his horses to a post in the road while
he went to the farm house. 1t was a
hot day and the wind blew the odor
from the perspiring horses directly to
some bee hives near by. and the an
gered bees came out and stung the
horses to death. The court held that
the defendant naturally expected peo-
pie to visit his home and that teams
would in all probability be hitched to
the post; hat 1T was put there for
that purpose and that this itself was
an assurance that it vas a safe place
to leave horses. It was therefore held
that the farmer was properly held by
the jury to be responsible for the kill
ing of the horses by the bees. The de-
cision is no doubt good law and is cer-
tainly supported by logical argument
and sound sense.
DEMOCRATIC AND IOWA IDEA.
dubuque Times.l
The iowa idea" so-called. is to fight
the trusts by cutting the tariff off their
manufactures, regardless of the disas-
trous effect such action would have on
the manufactures not in the trust
which engage in producing the same ar
ticles and which make so per cen of
the so-called trust goods.-Burlington
Hawk-Eye.
The Hawk-Eye. which seeks to
cratic policies, has given it a purpos
Identical with that protested in a reso-
luton adopted by the democrats OF the
house upon the close of the last ses-
sion of congress-the remova of pro-
lection from all trust-made goods or
all industries in which trusts exist.
The friends of the Iowa Idea do not
understand that it contemplates any
such course They are in favor of re-
tanning all the protection necessary to
the preservation of our domestic indus
tries. whether these are in the hands of
trusts or not, and they are in favor of
modifying schedules not required for
the protection of American industry
whether the industries protected by
these schedules are in the hands of
trusts or not.
The democratic idea is that the diff
~ferential duty on refine sugar should
be removed because the domestic re-
filming industry is in the hands of n
trust. The Iowa idea is that the differ
entail should remain because it Is nec-
essary to the preservation OF the Amer
lean refining industry. The democratic
idea is to rid us of the trust by a meth
cd which would also rid US of the indus
try. The Iowa idea is to get rid Of ex-
tortion while preserving the industry.
An Instance of its practical applica-
ton would be the reduction of the duty
on steel rails. The present rate of duty
is not necessary to the preservation Of