Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-11
COAL AND CHICKENS.
davenport Democrat

Missouri is something OF coal
| mining state. There are 81 counties in
which coal is mined and in all there
| are 4SS coal mines in operation. During
| the past year the tonnage and the
| value of the output Went beyond any
productions heretofore recorded. The
total of tons is 100000, which. sell
ing at the average price of $1.63
amounted to more than $7,000,0O0.
| There We're employed in the mines dur
ling the year l0,401 men. These are
creditable figures, standing by them
| selves
| But they look lean when compared
with the chicken industry of Missouri.
This, both in volume and value. was
the largest on record for one year. The
| figures for coal indicate all that was
taken out of the ground. But when it
comes to the chickens no account is
taken of the home consumption. The
shipments of live poultry aggregate
172,64414O pounds, valued at $15,537.-
8O0 of dressed poultry. 61,672,0 900
pounds, valued at s7,5oOoOO. Add to
this the egg crop which sold for s14,-
the by-product known as feathers and
we nave d SOldl vi ot,pVV,VoU.
Thus the Missouri chickens are worth
,, to the people five times as much as
the coal. really much more since home
consumption is not counted in.
SOL.
A PRECEDENT IN ARBITRATION.
[LaCross (Wis.) Daily Chronicle.]
Evidently there are passages in the
history of the acts of the republican
national committee with which the
Hawk-Eye is not familiar. Those who
are better informed know that the
committee is neither infallible nor in
variably just. 1t had an important case
before it in the year of 1904 which it
settled in a way that gave much con-
Germ to sincere republicans all over
this state and that came near to es-
tabishing the rank dishonesty of the
body which the HaWk-Ey now de-
scribes as incapable of unfairness. In
that year the republicans of Wisconsin
had regularly selected delegates to the
national republican convention and
these delegates in due course of time
presented their credentials to the ma
tional republican committee which was
making up the convention roll. Anoth-
oSAS6eNSSo
irregular and fraudulent credentials to
the same convention at about the same
time The irregular and fraudulent
delegation was seated by the national
committee and the regular delegation
undertook to protest The door of the
national committee room was slammed
in it's face. The committee refused to
listen to word of the evidence that
was afterwards heard by the supreme
court of the state and pronounced good
and sufficient. A prominent member
of the committee said that the door
would have been slammed harder if it
had been within the power of the COM
mittee to slam it that way. Afterwards,
the courts decided that the delegation
thus outrageously treated by the re-
publican national committee and tha
republican national convention was the
regular and legally elected delegation
to that convention and ought to have
been admitted to it.
No doubt Governor Cummins knows
the history of the circumstances here
related, and if he does he would be
idiotic indeed if he were to consent to
such an arbitration as Mr.. Perkins has
proposed.