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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16

would sharpen blunt pencil or a
dull razor. Should the president fol-
low the advice of the few revision1sts
who are now making so much noise
he will at once find two things before
him: First, the democratic party Will
be solidly with him, clamOring for re-
vision and for all the free trade 1t can
get out of it.; second, he will find fac
ing him a divided party, with the most
Of its leaders and the great masses
Of the people literally hostile to any
such move. There is not an industry
in the country that would not be alarm
ed, and the uncertainty which would
forthwith set in would halt and cripple
labor and it's results everywhere"
Senator Hale in this paragraph APP
,peals to fear and partisan prejudice,
but does not touch the ultimate ques-
ton. This is the question of whether
existing schedules are just 1t Is adj
mitted by the Maine statesman HIM
self that the Dingley law contains
Smaller defects If these involved
merely innocuous surplusage there is
no public necessity for amendment AMI
revision may we'll be opposed on this
ground. But If these Smaller defects"
consist Of excessive duties which en-
able monopoly to practice injustice up
on the consumer there Is need for
revision and to plead that it cannot be
accomplished by republican congress
without working more harm than good
is to make the confession that repub-
lican policies have erected monopolies.
which they defy even the governments
,,o,uar ~ corroctinn
The demand for revision Is based on
the belief that excessive tariffs afford
shelter to monopoly" 1t is imposst-
BILE to Justify this demand on any other
ground The standpatters do not be-
lieve that duties no longer needed
they admit that the existence of such
duties-afford shelter to monopoly, at
least permanently. They believe that
the Ills, trifling at most, from which the
people suffer, thru the existence Of tar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
CORPORATION TOOLS AND POLITICS.

Mayor McClelland, of New York city
Is man Of whom we heard much In
condemnation and defense when he
was considered as possibility for the
democratic nomination for president.
The general impression gained by the
public was that Mcclellan Is medi-
OGRE man, able and honest in medium
sort of way.
According to Golfers Weekly, the
latter impression was all wrong. Re-
ferring to the Tammany mayor, Col
lier's says:
HE and Mr. Murphy have given an
astute administration. They have
shown ability, and they have been wise
enough to be virtuous in many things,
that good repute might cover some
large iniquities. When Mr.. Mcclellan
signed the Remsen gas bill, which was
regarded by an undivided public opin-
ion as steal, the young mayors WELL
wishers tried 20 explain the act as stu
pid rather than corrupt. although
Murphy's brother was beneficiary.
The national election Is now over, and
the mask is likely to be less and less
in use. In renewing gas contract re-
fused by the Low administration, In
doing 1t as quietly as possible, In sur
reptitiously defrauding the people
whose vigilant defender the charter
commands him to be, Mr.. Mcclellan
comes out finally in the famous old
Tammany colors. Not for nothing do
the Standard Oil interests pay to Fat
rick H. McCarren a salary estimated
at 100000. He killed the municipal
lighting project which the Low ad-
miuistration defended and he and
Murphy are together in this latest
steal, Not an electric light, not jet
Of gas, not an oil lamp, hardly a tai
I low candle can be burned by the people
OF New York City, today, without
tribute to John D. Rockefeller; and
|, Mr. Mcclellan can henceforth be
Ealassed as a man who may grow rich,
hut will never receive the governorsh1p
or any other honor from the people OF
his country or his state. What he may
expect is only what can be given to
him by Tararnany hall or the dishonest
corporations in harmony with which 1T
works"
Whether or not, aS SoiiiSt e't eN''
the mayor has sold out, the latter
statement is true one and fast be-
coming an absolute principle. The
paid creature Of corporations is re-
ceding farther and farther from offices
within the gift of the voters. Men IN
office may grow rich by malfeasance'
and other men become wealthy by pro-
curing such malfeasance, but the day
is we'll past when the trickster or the
tool may escape discovery or attain
political honor. The coming men In
notifies are those who stand closest to
popular interests and farthest away
from special interests. The market
able politician is doomed to political
oblivion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
: Topics Of the Times

r. the city of Houston Is enabled 10
enforce it's edict against carrying con-
cealed weapons it will be corroboratlve
of the assertion Of southern leaders
that the south is being "republicantz-
ed"
Dowie has paid all his debts except
the one he owes nature and many peo-
nile would not object if he settled that
one.
The largest British submarine was
launched recently. 1t Is called the Il.
I. 1t is $50 feet in length and eighty
s,x feet in girth-submarines have no
beam-and is about fifty feet longer
and twenty feet greater in girth than
any Of it's predecessors.
The editor Of the Brooklyn Eagle
SAYS in the course Of an essay on
journalism: "The journalism that by
it's commercial prosperity has reached
that independence of the results of pol
itics is most feared and most respected
by parties and politicians"
Mrs. Hetty Green and Mrs. Chadwick
seem to constitute what. is known in
street yenacular as a stand off.
Thomas @. Dawson, an Iowa man
who has been given the position OF
United States minister to San Domin-
go. This is one of the instances where
a minister must act as referee at dog
fight and still not be "out of his place"
The area Of the United States is
given in the latest census as3,0O0,00O
square miles, of which 100000 square
miles are improved farm lands. AS an
illustration of the extent Of area de-
voted to the principal crops, Maine and
New Hampshire combined would form
the oat field, Rhode Island, with 300
square miles of eastern Connecticut,
would form the tobacco plantation;
Connecticut. with Long Island, would
make the potato patch. 1t would
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
",,mp HILL'S "BLUFFs."

when elm" Fill entered the new
,orthwest as a steamboat clerk and
~ erchant he began his battle on the
frontier with a bluff and In business
ha hos been q "bluffer' ever since.
I5A had wonderful capacity to do things
a. the building Of railroads to the coast
would indicate, but it has always been
"1;m" HIPS bluff" that removed the
noost Of his enemies from his path.
when Mr.. Fill hears the president re-
commencing enlarged powers for the
Interstate commerce commission 1t Is
hut natural for him to meet 1t with
.h,nff" and we hear him threatening
to cut wages on all the railroads In the
country If the interstate commerce
commission is given any more power
over freight rates.
When President Roosevelt, and At
torney General Knox were prosecuting
tho Northern Securities case Jim" Hill
was lecturing to the farmers that con-
solidation of railroads was good
thing for them because it had always
been his policy to manage his railroads
SO as to develop the most rapid growth
OF the northwest. It was another
"bluff" but it failed to work. The far
mers said they were grateful for good
king but If it could be prevented they
would prefer not to have kingly pow
ers vested in single owner Of all their
railroads. so public opinion failed to
prevent an adverse verdict.
Likewise 1t is true in this case Jim"
Hill has made another "bluff," but
public opinion will not be Influenced.
No one proposes to have the interstate
commerce commission cut rates so as
to bankrupt railroads and depress
wages. Railroad managers are pay
ing for labor today just what they have
to pay and no more. If business is
large the demand for men Is large and
wages are high. The moment business
Stacks UP the railways fire a portion
Of their men or hire others at less
wages. The proposition in the Coop
er-Quarles bill is merely to give the
commission power to fix reasonable
rate where. after fair trial, any rate
has been found to be unreasonable. It
congress should pass another law linn
iting the capitalization of corporations
to the actual cash capital paid in and
invested in the business. if the water
was thus squeezed out of corporation
stock the basis on which rates are to
be adjudged reasonable might embar-
rass some railroad men seriously but
so long as business could be handled
at rates fairly profitable on the actual
money invested wages are not going to
be affected and there is little danger
that any interstate commerce commits
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Possibly" suggests the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette, 'if the Iowa legislature
was not SO per cent lawyers there
would be some hope Of securing enact
ments that the people could understand
and that would undergo the tests Of the
courts. It may be that some of the at.
torneys seem to assist in the enact
ment of certain laws so that they will
have something to do in fighting these
laws after they have left office"
"The longer the people experiment
with the mulct law, the better they
like It," says the Burlington Hawkeye.
"of course, 1t is not ideal legislation.
But it is practical legislation, and 1t
of work that the Iowa legislature has
turned out in many years."
Noting that pastor Wagner" re-
turned to Europe with $4,000 in cold
cash, the Eldora Herald, somewhat
hungrily, remarks: IF the simple
life is as much success In other re-
spects as it is financially, 1t must be
great"
Secretary Shaw is much bigger
and better man than his few detractors
would like to make people believe"
says the Castana Times. "For all
that he should not get the idea that he
is either a bigger or a better man than
President Roosevelt, or something
may drop on the toes of the Iowa man.
Too much standpatism is likely to
strike in and prove politically fatal"
while many question the advisable
ity Of wholesale tariff ripping, Iowa
idea fellows and 'standpatters' ought"
in the opinion of the Rockford Regis
ter, ito get together on the proposition
to make a most thorough investigation
of tariff rates and their relation to
prices of commodities. When this has
been done, let 'em rip or stand pat"
The Tipton Advertiser asserts that
Nearly every town has it's Mrs. Chad
wick" and says "Tipton is not an
exception"
The Rockwell Phonograph very sem
sibly says: Now that the winter has
set in, the cotton tail is bound to be
pursued by our youth, armed with fire.
arms, which, when not properly
handled, prove more dangerous to him
self than to the rabbits. II your son
has a shotgun, see that he knows how
to handle it, has sense enough to take
out the shells from the breach when he
comes home, and never carries 1t at
full cock thru barb-wire fences. This
may possibly save you the sorrow at
tendant on sight of that promising
youth brought to your door on a
stretcher. Most boys will hunt, and Y
you don't let them go willingly, VIII
play hockey and go anyway. II you
have such boy, spend more time In
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16

showing him how to handle the shot
gun, than in forbidding him to handle
one"
There is entirely too much hair
splitting In law nowadays declares
the Mt. Vernon Record. Common
sense seems to be divorced too often
and some foolishness substituted. The
latest instance is the effort being
made In the quarters where the orig
inal opposition to the biennial cleo
tons came from to defeat the plain
will of the people, and knock out the
measure by legal hair splitting We
have no fear that the efforts Will sue
coed. yet they show up those who are
behind them as men who would rather
have their own way than allow the peo-
pie to have their own way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Marketing Hosa and Corn.

1--WE should feed for a certain mar
ket and that the best Of the season.
TO determine this, it is necessary to
study hog receipts and prices at the
principal yards for several years back,
and strive to market when receipts are
light--before the heavy run which oc-
ours regularly each fall and spring,
for then prices are Highest" writes e..
w. Jones in Inland Farmer. Summer
high prices are generally maintained
until the first or fifteenth Of October,
then follows period Of depression UNI
til the heavy run is over in late win
ter, to be resumed with the heavy re-
ceipts Of May and June. Therefore,
the most money Is in feeding for the
markets between these heavy runs.
when the new crop is sufficiently
ripened they should he fed out as rap
idly as possible. To this end see to
it that there Is always some corn on
the ground; they never go hungry. The
gain is very rapid and there is no
waste, for when they are not cleaning
it up right they are changed to another
feed lot and stock hogs or pigs are al
lowed to clean up the corn. I feed
out all the large hogs and shoats from
eighty pounds up al, early in the fall
as possible, then do not feed any more
while they are SO low, but run the pigs
over. The larger hogs are then fed
out for March or April; the smaller
ones are kept on e. clover field with
some corn until time to begin feeding
for August and Sep .ember market. Up
to this time they are just fed enough
to keep them in good growing condit-
ion, the idea being growth, develop
nent Of a good frame upon which to
put the fat. Too much range is det-
rimental to rapid fattentng, altho for
stock hogs plenty or range is essential
to growth and health. Too small a
lot or pen is conducive to bad health.
An ideal feed lot is rolling one OF
firm soil some two or three acres IN
area, with spring water plenty OF
shade and a division fence across.
"When buy stock hogs want those
of good blood. large frame and in thin
condition, preferably, for there is no
advantage to be derived from buying
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
WoMAN,s SYMPATHY.
Is ProverbiaI -. MarshaIItown Women
No Exception.


How much we owe to the sympa-
thetic side Of womankind. When 9TH
ers suffer they cheerfully lend help
ing hand. They tell you the means
which brought relief to them that you
may profit by their experience. Read
the testimony given here by Mar
shalltown woman:
Mrs. L. w. Fox. So5 Summit street,
says: when 1 first learned, about them
had considerable pain in my back.
Procuring box at the Mcbride 6,
Will Drug Company's store, used it
and was soon free from the annoyance
which was undoubtedly caused by
some imperfect action Of the kidneys.
/ gladly recommend remedy that
proved Of such value as Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Several friends of mine tried
them and all hold as high an opinion
Of their merit as t.
For sale by all dealers. Price, so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
THE PRESIDENTS MISTAKE.

Human impulses are often stronger
than the best ordered judgment. When
scurrilous newspaper story was prin-
ted about the Roosevelt children cruelty
abusing pet turkey 1t was too much
for even the sage at the white house.
The presidents anger got the best of
his Judgment and he ordered that the
government weather bureau reports be
denied the Boston Herald. the Offend
Ing paper.
The principle has long been estab-
lished In American politics that almost
anything is fair except abuse Of pub
lie mans wife and children. When the
reporter for sensational, yellow dem
ocratic newspaper sought to prove the
charge Of strenuosity by taking"
story as to the Unborn savagery of the
Roosevelt children, there was not
man in the United States who blamed
the president very much for getting
mad, II he had so far forgot his pres
idential dignity as to have given that
reporter Jill jitsu and laid him up FOR
a week, the American people would
have excused the president, but what
he did do was serious mistake. He
soon saw 1t himself, and withdrew she
order, but he did not escape flood or
lust criticism from the democratic
press
The freedom Of the press Is too sac
red q thing in this country TO pc
abridged even under severe provoca-
ton. When President Roosevelt denied
departmental information to one news
paper he established a precedent that
might in the future have prompted
other presidents to deny information OF
p,iblic affairs to other newspapers up
on occasions of less provocation. and
what would or could that lead to other
than censorship of the press by pres'-
dent? AS soon as he got the best OF MS
temper President Roosevelt acknoW-
leQRGQ MS lIllSldNG Ny NieaNN' :
order, SO people generally will not cen--
sure him in view Of the base insult
under which he was smarting man
Is not much of a man anyway VINO
would not strike out in anger when
his children are insulted, but the incl
dent has served its useful purpose IN
bringing to public attention the rights
Of the public press to all the sources
of public information regardless OF 'he
Iindiscretions Of which certain news7
papers may be guilty. Offending re-
norters and offending newspapers
should always be punished for thelr
righteousness, but public inforfna''on
should never be denied one newspaper
when not to all else the power OF CEN
sorship is given by indirection
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Beware Of counterfeits.

"Dewitts is the only genuine Witch
Hazel Salve," writes j. l.. Tucker, OF
Centre, Ala II have used 1t in my
family for piles, cuts and burns for
years and can recommend 1t to be the
best salvepon the market. Every fam
ily should keep 1t, as 1t is an invaluable
household remedy, and should always
be kept on hand for immediate use"
Mrs Samuel Gage, of North Bush, N.
Y. says: II had fever gore on my
ankle for twelve years, that the doc
tors could not cure. All salves and
blood remedies proved worthless.
could not walk for over two years.
Finally was persuaded to try De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve, which has
completely cured me. It is a Won
derful relief" DeWitt's Witch Hazel
salve cures without leaving a scar.
Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Brooklyn Fac
Revolution Imminent.

A sure sign of approaching revolt
and serious trouble in your system is
nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach
upsets. Electric Bitters will quickly
dismember the troublesome causes. 1t
never fails to tone the stomach. regu-
late the kidneys and bowels, stimulate
the liver and clarity the blood.
Run down systems benefit particularly
and all the usual attending aches van
ish under It's searching and thorough
effectiveness. Electric Bitters Is only
SO cents. and that is returned II 1t don't
give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed
by Mcdonald & Mahood, druggists
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16

Of comfort II 1t is not possible to have
the feed lots so arranged that the cat
tie can have solid footing on which to
stand and eat their feed there should
be. at least, a place provided where
they can lie down and ruminate and d.
gest 1t in comfort.
On farms with the muddy yards 1t Is
usual to see the straw left to rot In the
stack and the corn stalks left In the
field. Either of these products spread
on the sunny side OF the yards would
be very greatly appreciated by the cat
lie. and would also greatly increase
he profits Of the feeding operations.
fresh supply of this material will
need TO be added every few days in
order to keep the bee dry and COM
Portable: but 1t is an important part
Of the feeding operations and should
be considered a duty to be as carefully
watched ana as regularly attended to
as the feeding. Their, is n great adj
vantage in such an arrangement aside
from the comfort that 1T provides for
the animals. We refec to the valuable
manure that will thus be provided for
the benefit Of the land. Where no pro-
vision for a place to lie down is made
the manure Is trampet into and mixed
with the soil In the ytrd, and little OF
1t ever reaches the field to increase the
yield of crops. But with O. good dry
bed in some part of the yard where the
cattle will spend the greater portion of
their time the manure will be largely
collected in this part Of the yard, and
the straw will prevent its being min
eled with the soil, and it will be in
convenient condition for removal to
the field The straw, too, will be In
better condition for application and can
be applied much sooner than II left to
rot In the stack. Altogether the re-
suits will many many times repay the
trouble Of hauling in little straw ev-
cry few days. There are probably few
operations about the farm that will
bring larger returns for the labor ex-
pended
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Care Of the Feed Yards.

If one may judge by the practice OF
feeders there are very large percent
ages Of them who do not properly APP
preciate the importance of dry yard
for their feeding cattle. So long as the
weather is dry the lots keep in fairly
good condition without any attention,
and the steer gets along comfortably
but when rains come the yards are
tramped up and the steers must not
only wade in the mire to get to their
feed and water troughs, but If they lie
down their bed is the cold, Shiny ooze
of dirt and water mixed UP by the re-
peated tramping. Often one sees feeo
lots where the steers will stand hour
after hour because there is no place
where they may lie down in any degree
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
THE STRAWPILE|
<Y1--A1 ez7A q s>@ee-:s III: !: w 81,
42& :; sz

Sweet potatoes are grown more or
less in about four-ffths Of the coun-
ties: most extensively and successful
Iy, however, in the valleys Of the KAN
sas and Arkansas rivers The six
counties of Pottawattamie, Riley, Wa
baunsee, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and
Sedgwick yield annually about one
half more of the states output, which
in the past twenty years has varied
from 779.783 bushels in 1889 to 212.46S
bushels in 1897.-Secretary F. D. Co
burn in September Quarterly Report
of the Kansas Board Of Agriculture.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Iowa Newspapers
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SENATOR ALL1SoN's VIEWS.
dubuque Times.1
Senator Hale, of Maine. tells an in
terviewer that:
1--WE can have no partial or piecemeal
revision of the tariff. Whenever it Is
undertaken it will go to the bottom.
You cannot repair a tariff bill as you
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16
Who's Afraid

This is the title Of beautiful steel
engraving. issued by the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, that will please
the little folks and be an adernment to
the nursery. It is 6x9 inches in size.
printed ON heavy card with wide mar
Gins, suitable for framing. Sent to any
address on receipt of cents in post
age by w. B. Kniskern, passenger traf-
Ac manager, Chicago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-16

surplus flesh; 1t is my business to put
that on. Easily noticeable growth and
flesh Is put on these large frames pro-
vided they are in good health. AZ to
the superiority Of good blood, 1t q a
settled question. Young sows that
have had their first litter are an ex-
cellent foundation for feeding and just
the thing to buy for they are unusually
thin and readily prepared for market.
Old sows, however, are not good foun-
dalton, as, for the pounds they put on,
you will receive nearly two cents less
per pound and 1t Is a losing business.
They sell as old fat sows while the
young ones sell as straight hogs. Tho
same is true of old and young boars.
When castrated and feed out the young
ones pass the muster' the old ones
are designated as stays and sell low.
Usually good money is made on young
sows and boars for they, can be bought
lower than straight stock hogs"