Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-13
biockaded the whole system as a 1900
ton freight train did on one big trunk
NJ" York Herald.

biockaded the whole system as 1870
ton freight train did on one big trunk
line.
The Chicago Record Herald made
q handsome apology to Governor
| Cummins, as we'll as to their
big crowd of Iowa readers for
their fake" story on Cummins
speech. They Cleared their skirts of
any intentional disreputable newspa-
per work, locating the source oil the
foke, to the Des Moines correspondent
of the New York Herald. OF course
they cannot compel the New York Her
aid to give the name of their Des
Moines correspondent, but Governor
Cummins can bring a pressure to bear
that will result in the public knowing
the name of the man, /. e., the liar, that
sent the faxed dispatch. Smoke him
out"
AS one goes from town to town the
wonder is the population, the people,
the trade of Iowa, supports so many
business firms of all kinds. There is
hardly line of business, hardly a pro-
fesson, an occupation or a trade that
is not apparently overcrowded-"too
many in our line of business. OF
course the screening and sitting pro-
cess is continued. Men invest their lit
tie all in a hundred ways only to be
Obliged to give up in six months or a
year. simply because 1t don't pay. But
as fast as one man quits another man
starts in the same business. Some of
these business ventures are funny ones.
Three weeks ago in an Iowa town, a
man opened a fair store His whole in
vestment was about 5000. His sales Of
5 and 10 cent goods do not average 50
a day. In fact if all the cash he takes
in was clear profit, his failure is GER
tain and sure And here is another
phase of these business ventures. The
new man always has the concet that
If the other man failed, he can make
money. A man starts a hotel and goes
broke in q year. That motel building
is not vacant q day. Plenty OF men
ready to move in and pay the same
rent as the former busted landlord.
Only the other day young man came
to the writer to ask advice ABOUT puy-
ing the weekly paper published IN inc
town. The price asked was 500. the
subscription list was about 200 dead
heads included. What the job print
ing part of the office amounted to he
didn't know What the press cost he
could not say. All he did know was
that he wanted to run newspaper,
and his mother was to put up the nee
essary cash. Here's the story of an
other trade. Two brothers had saved
81 200 by working hard in the drug
business. They bought a farm of 100
acres near town at $50 an acre. Paid
down $4,000, ran in debt for the lum-
her to build a small house and for
farm machinery. Gave notes and
mortgage for $500 at 6 per cent in
tcrest; are now hauling shelled corn
to town at 26 cents per bushel, about
forty bushels to the acre. How long
will they own the farm?
II must be a satisfaction to Congress
man Birdsall to receive the bouquets
he does these days on his pronounced
nosition on public matters. Outside of
his district one hears many compliment
tarv remarks to the effect that any
one knows how Birdsall stands on rate
LEGISLATION and tariff reform. And Dol
liver has gained much in public es-
tim tion by standing for something
Even the Iowa idea men in Lacey's
district admire his nerve in taking up
his abode in Standpatville and at the
same time giving his place of residence
ara postoffice box. These are the days
when public men are fish, hesh, fowl
or good red herring
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