Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-05
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minneapolis journal.

| we in common with all civilized ma
| lions all indorse the creed Of force,
| might and main. Secretly the average
man and woman admires Sullivan or
n Corbett, regretting the personal
qualifications going necessarily within
such Drawn and muscle. Roosevelt is
/ an etherialized Sullivan. A F'itzsm-
mons without the vulgarity OF the prize
| fighter. Why are the Japs today the
source of SO much expressed admiral
ton and sympathy? Simply because
| they are fighters. Does the reader re-
poleon?
| But to return to the Tama Indians
| What a staggering blow to environ
ment Is their present habits, charac-
| terlstics and daily life. For fifty years
| living in central Iowa, surrounded by
all the comforts of modern civilization,
they still, from choice, live as did their
forefathers For fifty years they have
heard the church bells ring and today
| is there q consistent Christian In the
tribe? For half century they have
seen the white children going daily to
the school house, and force has almost
been used to get their children into the
government school established less than
| five years ago. Living within call of
the most skillful physicians, they still
put the squaw into the tepee to bear
alone, unasslstsed. the pains Of child
birth. The medicine man still flour
| ishes In Tama county, not five miles
| from the county seat, and a Christian
| college. The big red barns of Tamn
county are filled every year with hay
| and grain for the white mans horses
| and cattla during the winter months,
!, while more than a hundred Indian
ponies live on dead grass or hazel
/ brush, or die for the want of 1t, not
five miles from Montour. Government
agents have furnished them witt,
cooking stoves, but they still have an
old kettle over an out-of-doors fire
With plenty of money to buy warm
| clothes and shoes, they still wear the
moccasin and the blanket. With mea;
markets only two miles away, they still
enjoy dog meat, and buy diseased hogs
of the stock dealers in nearby towns.
Environment-did you mention it.?
Rather suggest heredity.
Here's bit of logic all will generally
agree upon Labor is commodity. A
thing is worth what it will bring. The
president Of the New York Life In
surance Company possesses a commod-
ity. /. e., his own personal labor, he
sells it to the insurance company for
| $500, 600 IA year. Therefore 1t is worth
it. Is 1t? President Roosevelt wants
100000 man to build the Panama
canal. He has hired Shonts for 100000
year. Has he got too low priced
chairman of the commission. 1t is we'll
known that several men in the presi-
dents cabinet earned previous to ac-
cepting such positions, eight. ten and
twelve times as many dollars each
year and they now draw from the gov
eminent for their services. Are we
paying them what salary they should
receive as officials of the government?
Members of the English house of lords
receive no pay for their work.
Now the writer is far from attempt
ing to answer these questions. much
less to discuss the pros and cons of
this endless talk. But it does seem
that in what we now call the corpora
ton, the time has come to call hal:
in big salaries. A dozen men, more or
less, put their money into a corporation.
AS stockholders they name certain of
their number directors. These direc-
tors elect a president and they vote
him $4,000, $4,000 or 100000 year
salary. The theory is that he earns /.
by wise supervision. The argument is
that the widow owning stock really
gets a larger dividend on her 300
share OF steel, tnan she would Il a man