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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
BLACKMAIllNG LAWMAKERS.

President McCalps recent assertion,
made to the insurance Investigating
committee, to the effect that majority
Of insurance regulation bills introduced
into state legislatures are "blackmail-
& ing bills" affords two conclusions:
Either President Mccall lies or the
average legislature is machine for
securing brides and levying blackmail.
It is likely that President Mccall in his
anxiety for federal supervision Of in
surance overstated the case. We have
been forced to the conclusion that a
large proportion of the corporation
presidents, will not scruple to eXag-
gerate or even lie fatty to gain point
but there will also be little doubt that
he spoke largely from experience and
Z could probably furnish proof of legis-
lative blackmail against his own and
other companies. No one will deny
that venal lawmakers thrive by cor
porate hold ups but no one will believe
that the average legislator is a black
mailer, and profits by his vote. In
most cases the men whose votes give
venal leaders the power to blackmail
are cozenened and deceived, not paid.
It is the old simple matter of fools led
by a knave
President McCall's and other great
corporations are suffering from the
proficiency Of their own pupils, ana are
victims of experience taught by their
own lobbyists. No legislator with
weakness ever lacked lobbyist at
hand to play upon it. No lawmaker
with a leaning toward venahty ever
fails of a strong hand to drag him
across the line between honor and dis
honesty For years powerful interests
have been showing lawmakers the
Kingdoms of graft Now they are OBJ
jecting to those who have accepted the
proffer cultivating the fields of their
possessions. Congressman who voted
right find the business agents of cor
porations, their good friends in time
of present trouble. Judge Hubbard,s
strongly expressed desire to secure
those 400 votes for Dave Mercer from
the swarming mass of '.'Shercliffes rel
atives" in Omaha. is corroboratively
familiar incident in point. If there is
corporate blackmail by legislators it
has been taught by corporate debauch-
cry of legislators.
No great sympathy will be awaken
Cd by McCall's complaint for the New
York Life and corporations of it's ilk. |
There is little opportunity for honest
sympathy when the quarrel is over
division of swag exploited from the
masses. McCalHs statement is chiefly
valuable not as an argument in favor
of federal CONTROL but as a warning
to those who elect legislators and are
in a measure dependent on corpora
tions. When knaves fall out, honest |
men may listen and learn. The black
mailing law1naker and the purchasing |
corporation are equally dangerous to
good government and public welfare.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

case of the woman who was a sinner,
who broke upon His head and His feet
the very precious box of ointment, one
of the art-agencoes in her unholy pro-
fession. But those who refer to this
case seem to forget two points in this
story. First the woman had utterly
abandoned her unclean life, and the
gift Of the hitherto tainted ointment
was the offering of the penitent and a
token of her abandonment of the I'M
holy life. Let the possessors of tain
ted money come confessing their sins,
with the abandonment of their 'sys-
tenn Of unrighteousness and then, as a
token of their penitence, give their
money to God that it may in some
fashion and measure atone for their
wrongdoing, and we should be in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
Topics Of the Times

Rockingham county, Virginia, does
we'll this season with a $4,000 barrel
crop of apples, but Berkeley county,
Yves Virginia, with its 15o,00Oba
crop, breaks the record. The Berkeley
apple crop will bring, it is stated, $685.
900. Not only 10 the yield unpredece-
dented, but the quality is fine. Buyers
are at hand In great numbers to take
the output of the entire orchards, pick
ing the apples and paying good price.
What Berkeley county does other ad-
jacent counties Of Virginia and Mary
land could probably do il they tried.
An interesting series Of experiments
to test the military value Of airships is
about to be made by the French artil-
lery. 1t may be promised that the fact
of their value may be taken as es-
tablished up to q certain point to the
satisfaction of the French military au-
thorities, since permanent "harbor"
for airslips has been established in the
artillery quarter of the garrison of
Toul. This "harbor" will be used as a
continual center for studying the ques-
ton as to what services can be obtain
ed from airships to aid the defense of
fortified place under siege.
A young lieutenant stationed near
New York was Tilted by his sweetheart
recently, and his Respondent air and
melancholy signs attracted the atten-
ton of his commanding officer. One
day the commanding officer called the
young man aside, and after a fatherly
talk wound up his homily by saying,
MY dear boy there are as good fish
in the sea as ever were caught" and
as an after thought added: Don't
catch EN-! Don't catch 'em!"
The prevalence of diphtheria over the
state, serious conditions being report
ed from various points, Should carry
its own warning to city health boards
A tailor in Boston, Lincolnshire,
England, has hit upon novel adver-
tisement. He has painted letter of
his name or the back of each OF ten
tortoises and has placed the ten i'll the
window of his shop. He offers prize
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

clned to believe that the money would
be sanctified. Let the system and all
who have adopted the methods of the
system seek out those whom they
have in their business relations
squeezed and crowded out of business
by the power of their system and their
enormous wealth, by their rebates
and secret agreements and restore
to them four-fold, and then give
the half Of their remaining
possessions to the poor; then it is
probable that what remains to them
will be in sanctification. In money
making as in fruit growing, one must
first make the tree good" before 1.-The
fruit can be good" Repentance, resti-
tuition, where restitution can be made
and Il life of business method recon-
structed on righteousness would seem
to be the only way to sanctify tainted
money!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
Don't Borrow Trouble.

It is a bad habit to borrow anything,
but the worst thing you can possibly
borrow, is trouble. When sick, sore,
heavy, weary and worn out by the
pains and poisons of dyspepsia, bilious
ness, Bright's disease, and similar in
ternal disorders, don't sit down and
brood over your symptoms but fly for
relief to Electric Bitters. Here you
will find sure and permanent forget
fulness of all your troubles, and your
body will not be burdened by load
of debt disease At Mcdonald & Ma
hood Co, drug store. Price so cents.
Guaranteed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
INSURANCE THIEVES AND COST.

The daily revelations of millions
upon millions of dollars stolen from
the funds of life insurance companies
by thieves among their officers right
fully and justly casts suspicion upon
life insurance methods In general.
( When the Equitable was on trial we
. were shocked at the loan OF a quarter
OF a million to the Depew Improve
millions at low interest in trust COM
panies owned by some of the officers.
. Now comes the New York Life with
apartment houses rented to the sons
of the president at nominal prices,
money taned to friends of the presi-
dent at w per cent interest, and
the Mutual Life follows with over a
million paid to the son of its presi-
dent as commissions and nearly a
million more to the son-in-iaw. These
are only the occasional transactions
which have been discovered by Laws
yers in the Investigation. Verify it
would seem that Lawson spoke but a
mere shadow of the truth when he said
that the New York Life and the Mu-
tual Life were just as rotten as the
Equitable.
Such disclosures throw some light on
the great expense Of American insur-
ance. Last year the people of the
United States paid into life insurance
companies in premiums 472 millions,
and the interest and rent incomes of
the companies invested reserves
brought their total income to $50 mil
lions for the one year. Out of this
enormous income the insurance man
ayers took 1873 millions, or "a per cent,
for Expenses They kept 2O2 mill
lions for surplus and pah only II per
cent, or 240 millions, back to the policy
holders in death claims, matured poll
cies, annuities, dividends, etc. The
policy holders got back less than half
what they paid in and the managers
rot one-fourth of all these millions.
This was the situation with all In
surance companies included, but from
4 list of twenty-five leading companies
the average expense Is Is per cent of
the premium receipts while life insur-
ance companies in England can con-
duct their business for less than one
half that sum and the German govern
ment insurance costs even less for ex-
penses.
The policy Of accommodating immense
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
er thought. We are assured that in
Christianity alone lies the solution Of
the problem"
NEED OF TARIFF REVISION.
[Chicago Drovers' Journal]

/ lSulCdSO DIOSeIS JOuIHdl.I
In the coming efforts to establish
reciprocal trade relations that shal
| give to agriculture some adequat
measure of benefits of tariff regula
| tions that are to be maintained thu
strong forces of the manufacturer
who will bitterly oppose the reduction
of import duties will have to be met
Farmers of this nation are at las
becoming thoroughly aroused on thu
| matter of reciprocity. At the recen
session of the Farmers National Con
gress the matter was discussed prett,
thoroughly. In AN argument on "Tht
Tariff as 1t Affects Agriculture" Con.
gresham L. f. Livingstone, of Atlanta
Ga, brought out in brief the following
strong points:
1. The tariff tax Discriminate
against the farmer, but is easily advo-
scious knowledge.
2. Economists have shown that the
tariff tax is paid as follows: Four
ffths by the consumer and one-fifth by
the exporter and foreign manufacturer
3. The tariff tax has unduly enrich
ed one class at the expense Of an
other. Every time a farmer. gets 81
the manufacturer gets $3.50.
4. Farmers are one-third of the ma
ton and get one-sixth Of the increase
in national wealth, while the manu-
facturers. one-fourth of the popula-
ton, receive one-half
S. Farmers wealth doubles in from
thirty to forty years; the manufacture
er's in from ten to twenty years.
6. The farmers per capita wealth
was about stationary from 1860 to
1890, while the manufacturers per
capita increased skiold.
Z. OF every $23S bought by farmers
SIS goes to the government and $37 to
protected trusts.
s. Protection does not give farmers
market for their goods, while insur-
ing one for the manufacturers.
9. The farmer is the mainstay of
the country and his interests demand
a removal Of the legislation which en-
riches another class unnecessarily and
chiefly at the farmers expense.
Without entering upon an analysis
of the congressman's deductions or
vouching for the accuracy of the fig
ures, it is becoming evident that the
farmers and stock growers Of this
country are becoming thoroughly
aroused to the fact that too little has
been done for them in the matter of
the extension of foreign markets for
their products. There is a more wide
spread determination than ever before
among agriculturists to insist upon a
REIMBURSEMENT of foreign trade rela-
tons that shall not stand as a one
sided affair with nine-tenths Of the
favors bestowed upon manufacturing
interests, thereby imposing upon our
foreign customers conditions that
them against the admission
of American products of the farm and
range. If this change must come by a
general revision of the tariff schedules
as they now stand it will be found that
a greater proportion of the populace
than ever before stands ready to well
come such a revision.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

The farmer would be better salts
fled with those stories of his wealth
If he did not have to divide with the
railroads and packing houses" asserts
the Alton Star-Eenterprise
"At present the crime consists in
giving the pass, not in accepting it,
declares the Dubuque Times The
next general assembly will be request
ed to pass bill prohibiting under pen
alties the acceptance of pass by any
person who is not minister or rail-
way employee"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes
from every town and village in this
section of the state comes the same
story-more permanent Improvements
than ever before. "a few more years
like 1905 and Iowa cities will have
passed the mark set by the older cities
Of the east" predicts the Gazette.
IF Director Sage doesn't win out on
his optimistic corn predictions it will
not be the fault of Director Sage's
weather bureau, observes the Sioux
City Journal.
The Denison Review referring to
Secretary Shaw's prospective retire
ment, says: ut will indeed be difficult
for President Roosevelt to find a man
who will conduct the affairs of the de-
partment with so much zeal and tact
and firmness and honesty as his Sec
rotary Shaw"
The Dubuque Telegraph believes
Gov. La Toilette hardly would have
permitted himself to be elected to the
senate If he did not intend to take his
seat. And it thinks the senate is in
need of Gov. La Toilette. "There is
nowhere greater need for man than
in the senate and there is proof abund-.
ant of La Follette's manhood says
the Telegraph.
Here's strength to you, Grover"
exclaims the Clarksville Sun, noting
Mr. Cleveland's opposition to woman
suffrage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
New Cure for Cancer.

All surface cancers are now known
to be durable, by Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. James Walters, of Duffield, Va.
writes: Il had a cancer on my lip for
years. that seemed incurable, till Buck
lens Arnica Salve healed it, and now it
is perfectly WELL" Guaranteed cure for
cuts and burns 25 cents at Mcdonald
& Mahood Co., drug store.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs
and colds and prevents pneumonia.
Take no substitutes. For sale by. B.
A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
Never Ask Advice.

When you have cough or cold
don't ask what is good for it and get
some medicine with little or no merit
and perhaps dangerous. Ask for Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, the greatest
throat and lung remedy, it cures
coughs and colds quickly. For sale by
B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
Fat Folks.

reduced my weight IS pounds.
chest 5 inches, waist inches and hips
s inches in short time by guaran-
teed harmless remedy without exercise
or starving. I will tell you all about
1t. Enclose stamp and address Rev. ].
S. Homan, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, care
of Helping Hand League of America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

The Tama Herald hopes "the rank
and file of Iowa politicians will not
get Vice President George w. Perkins,
of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. mixed up with our George D., Of
the Sioux City Journal"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

strength tonic that brings rich,
red blood. Makes you strong. healthy
and active. That's what HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea will do 80 cents,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

Captain F. J. Drake has been de-
tached from duty at the Mare Island
navy yard and ordered to the COM
mand of the battleship Wisconsin, OF
October &c, relieving Captain Richard
Clover.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

'Mares-nest Payne, of Nevada, has
discovered that there is an anti-pass
law now on the statutes of Iowa.
saucily remarks the Odebolt Chronicle
and adds: If so, it doesn't anti worth
cent"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

This paper does not wish to butt
into any republican argument, but
would like to ask Bailey of Britt how
he got so darned wise on all kinds Of
railroad rates all at once?" inquiries
the Manson Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

William Allen White has made S.
900 by his writings in the last three
months. Even if White is never yellow
he is always read, which is enough to
make many another poor devil of
scribbler blue.-Register and Leader.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

Young Leonard insists he was in pur-
suit Of fun when he touched the
New York bank for s359,0OO, but the
bank insists he was after funds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

of $40 to the first person who sees the
tortoises in a line, so arranged that the
letters are in the order in which they
appear in his name.
Uncle--Well, here's the money you've
been bothering me for. Now, remem-
Der the old saying that "a fool and his
money are easily parted"
Nephew don't know about that.
I've had to coax you for more than a
year for :his!-Answers.
A woman at Corydon Iowa, by the
name of Fountain, is 1O1 years old and
is yet in fairly good health. References
to the fountain of eternal youth barred.
Let the fall come on, let the leaves
turn brown,
Old Iowa won't get pinched
If coal goes up, for ice is down
And a big corn crop is cinched
Manson Democrat.
The two Denison newspa pers have
purchased typesetting machines and
promise improved appearance and
news service. Both are prosperous and
deserve it.
Unless some hitch occurs In the pro-
ceedings a Mr.. Harness will supply the
Chelsea pulpit. He is bright student
at Cornell and Chelsea is glad to have
him saddled with the appointment.
New England is suffering a lobster
famine. Come west, New England.
come west.
Whether or not the Chinese settled
Mexico as some scientists claim, Japan
settled China ten years ago, and has
just done settling Russia.
Young Leonard insists he was in pur-
suit Of fun when, he touched the
New York bank for s359,o0o, but the
bank insists he was after funds.
William Allen White has made So
900 by his writings in the last three
months. Even if White is never yellow
he is always read, which is enough to
make many another poor devil of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

Whether or not the Chinese settled
Mexico as some scientists claim, Japan
settled China ten years ago. and has
just done settling Russia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

Here's strength to you, Grover
exclaims the Clarksville Sun, noting
Mr.. Cleveland's opposition to woman
suffrage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

The farmer would be better salts
fed with those stories of his wealth
If he did not have to divide with the
railroads and packing houses" asserts
the Alton Star enterprise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-07

New England is suffering a lobster
famine. Come west, New England.
come west.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-07
BULLDOG PICKETT A FATALlsT
Not Afraid of Being Killed Until His
 Time Comes.

Aren't you afraid of getting killed" was the question put to Bulldog Pick ett by scores after his marvellous per formance at Eastlake park yesterday afternoon His invariable reply was that getting killed is the last thing a man needs to think about in this world. whatever he's going to do He says:
 "I am promised for this world just so long and when I go that will be the end of it. I've already lived as long as the average man Che is S4 but looks older) and I've been throwing steers with my teeth for sixteen years. Some time I suppose I'll make a fatal mistake and then 1t will be all over but so far nothing serious has ever happened to me. I broke m-r collar bone once and have had a rib fractured, a knee thrown out of place and a forearm broken, but not all at the same time and these lit tie things are to be expected in my business"
 Pickett threw three steers yesterday with his teeth, just as advertised, and then threw another just to show that he could. One of the steers was as large an animal as was ever thrown by a cowboy in 9 Phoenix tournament. Jack Gibson was well pleased with the performance and made a little side money on a wager that the negro would throw one of the three clear and clean in every way and satisfactory to the other man concerned in the wager. He made good and the money changed hands.
 The attendance at the park was not notably large but every person there is a walking advertisement for today's performance for everyone was satis- fled with the maFVelous performance of the man Pickett and also with the bronco riding, of which there will be more today. the tournament beginning at 2:2O o'clock. It is novel enter tainpeEt and Pickett don't have to be- long to any union. There is no one to scab on his job for he is the only man on earth that does the stunt. He not only throws the steers but sometimes
Arizona republican., 1905-05-07

gresSive movement if successful will prevent Arizona from being included. It is fortunate that the force of gov ernment officials will assist territorial officers in this work without pay from the territory. This is certainly an op- portunity for sheep men to make great progress along a line that is of assist ance to themselves only. It is quite an undertaking and the results will be watched with interest. Dr. M. lines. a bureau official is in charge of the in- spectors in Arizona who are supervis- ing the dipping of sheep for the forest reserves and will assist in the general dipping scheme.
 While there are minor affections and diseases that are not contagious, that a stock owner may with reason perhaps neglect to have treated if his stock is of less value than the expense of treat ment, in important contagious diseases the motto is very appropriately eradi- cation rather than regulation The dip- ping of sheep even if not thoroughly done by all helps that much of course in keeping down disease but Arizona is to be congratulated in having un- dertaken this work thoroughly for it is an evil that is susceptible of eradi- cation. Therefore if worthy of atten- ton at all it should be done thoroughly instead of by loose methods that only result in it's partial control. The san itary board with the aid of the terri torial veterinarian has demonstrated that these things are possible in the stamping out of glanders, tuberculosis. Texas fever and swine plague from the Salt river valley, and if the board, ve~ terinarian and bureau officials continue to have the cooperation of the sheep owners, they will no doubt be equally as successful in the extermination of sea- bies in Arizona flocks.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-07

grabs the horns, twists the head around almost inverting it. then seiz- ing the upper lip Of the animal in his teeth he falls backward, the head Of the steer across his legs, the horns at either side and the body of the animal frequently keeling clear over beyond him. If he misses his hold he instant Iy grabs the steer by the horns and does the trick over. Yesterday he got a bruise under the right eye and bump ed his nose Q little just enough to make it bleed. He says that he was hurt a little last February at Hot Springs and for 9 week he did the turn daily with one arm .n 2 sling.
 In any event he is a wonder and well worth seeing.