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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
Opposes Religion in Schools.

According to the report in the Rec
ord-Herald of the 4th inst. under the
caption of Custom in Schools Stirs
Jewish Women" it is stated that Miss
Julia F'elsenthal declared that semi
religious ceremonies in observance of
Christian holidays in the public schools
are doing a great injustice to the Jew
ish pupils" Whether one is a Jew or
GENTLE, there can be no question but
that any honest person would admit
that the above statement is succinct
formulation of the truth on that sub
iect. The public schools have mo
business" with religion. to the extent
of adhering to any set. organization or
belief The taxpayers support the pub
lie schools, and hence no predominant
bunch of believers" has any right to
impose any creed or particular OBJ
servance in the schools. ! am Chris
tian. Now consider, wouldn't the
Christians howl" IT, in community
where the Jews We're predominant,
they should impose in the public
schools Jewish ceremonies and ossel-v-
ances? c. JULES MICTIE1LtlT.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
Tho Moslem Menace.

Mohammedanism is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Not long ago the
Soudan United Mission asked all
Christians in Great Britain and Ire
land to aid in checking the spread of
Mohammedanism in the protectorate
of Northern Nigeria. Says the London
Pail Mali Gazette:
The negroes there number at least
ten millions. Until late years the ter
ritory was closed and now when it
has become safe. under British rule.
Moslem traders and missionaries, full
of energy and zeal for the faith, are
pressing in so fast that it seems like
~ they may convert the whole popula-
ton in no long time. Most of US hear
so little of the Mohammedan creed
that we are apt to forget it's import
ance i'm the world. But its devotees
number fifth part Of the human race,
and they multiply fast The proper
ton of Mosiems in China was imper-
ceptible fifty years ago; now they are
seen in all parts. The Moslems not
only increase in number but In zeal
The change Is specially striking In
Malay lands One might suppose that
young men studying at Christian col
leges and universities no inconsider-
able number at the present time, would
be shaken in their faith. But II the
educated youth OF Islam conceive
doubts of their creed. they do not pub
lish them. And they show no incli-
nation to desert it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
AyANIsHED FLEET.

According to dispatch from one Of
the river towns. eight raftboats and
three passenger and freight steamers
are to constitute the fleet Of the Upper
Mississippi this season. Only eleven
vessels plying over the upper reaches
the greatest waterway of the contin-
emit!
How are the mighty fallen! 1t is
not long, certainly within the memory
of men still vigorous that the surface
of the broad highway from the falls of
the Minnehaha to the Delta was dashed
by a thousand paddle wheels busy
with the commerce Of the empire.
Down it's broad basin the glory of the
denuded Wisconsin hills fioated in
monstrous RATS Of logs and lumber.
Steamers trailed great lows of barges
loaded to the wateriine with wheat
River captains were princes and the
owners of packet lines kings of trans
portation. Long freight houses lined
the shores behind the steamboat land
ings. Half clad, fierce faced gangs Of
roustabouts swarmed like ants back
and forth over the gang planks, shift
ing the various freight aboard and
ashore. While an iron visaged mate
with ready tongue and reader hand
spike cursed and bullied and drove as
trainer drives wild beasts. On the
watched the shifting scene with never
fading interest. A landing at night,
with the shifting Of gangs under the
glare of torches was a sight to remain
unforgotten in the old days when
the river was a thoroughfare. And
now but three Of these boats sail the
upper river. The slips in the boatyards
at Dubuque and Wabasna have long
ago rotted away as their finished pro-
duct has done at a hundred deserted
landings. Red Wing is no longer the
premier wheat part of the world and
the hills are bare along the Wisconsin
rivers.
ISteamboating was profitable. One
trip of one of the old time river pack
cts has netted her owners $4,000. For
one of these boats to clear $4,000 in
a single season was common. And
expenses ran high. The captain drew
Il princely salary. A crack pilot in the
palmy days of the earlier river not UNI
commonly drew $50 day. Even now
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
ROOSEVELT AS A mucK.R AkER.

undertaking has its uses when one
does the raking himself For instance
Ida Tarbell, the pioneer in present day
literature of exposure, convicted the
Standard Oil Company of every crime
discovered by the presidents bureau
chief She told how the rebate bust
ness was conducted how the great
trust was formed out of its constituent
Independent companies by reason of
Rockefellers drawback arrangement
with the railroads, how competitors
were spied upon thru the railroads and
how competition was stif1ed by means
of rates which discriminate against To-
calities.
When the president preached against
the muck-rakers he may have been
cunning for Richard Harding Davis
with no thought OF hurting Ida Tarbell,
but he did not make this clear. His
censure was turned toward all such
writer's by the friends of the special
Interests.
Now, however the things which Ida
Tarbell disclosed and proved from
documentary evidence have furnished
most effective ammunition with which to
fight the trusts in defense of a rate
bill and the presidents bureau chief
has been set to raking muck with
vim. AS muck-raker the president
has shown some sensational activity.
undertaking as a matter of fact, is
mighty useful operation If the
marshes are to be cleared of their foul
stenches. 1t is, of course, essential that
it be done with Judgment and from a
motive of high public purpose and
most of the muck-rakers in recent lit
erature have accomplished a great deal
of good by their work, the president,
himself, not excepted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
PRESIDENTS HARD BLOWS.

Whatever may be said Of Roosevelt
as COMPROMISED there is no denying
the fact that he is also fighter and a
foe of no mean strength, either. Know
ing that his rate regulation bill was an
open attack upon the combined rail-
road and trust interests of the coun-
try, he determined to use the whole
machinery of his administration to
force the fighting and to this end his
bureau of corporations centered upon
the enemy's most formidable strong
hold. the Standard Oil Company. 1t
was no coincidence that the transmit
tai of the Garfield report to congress
should occur simultaneously with the
announcement of the Allison amend
ment to the rate bill. A general adj
vance has been ordered under cover Of
heavy artillery fire.
The Allison amendment will not
vitiate the rate bill. 1t merely gives
the railroads right to enjoin their in
terstate commerce commission in the
federal district courts instead of COM
polling them to bring action 1t Wash
ington alone The legal question as to
how much supervision the courts can
exercise over the commission is left
open to judicial determination just as
it would have been had there been no
amendment.
The important point to be gained as
explained in the presidents comments
on the Standard Oil Company report
the commission to name rate in place
of another rate deemed unjust. 1t is
not practicable, explains the president,
to depend upon a lawsuit to obtain
relief from an unjust or discriminating
rate. There must be a commission
with authority to move
quickly and decisively.
The presidents bureau chief has
convicted the Standard Oil trust of
having secured secret rebates 10 lHe
extent Of nearly million dollars per
year and of having arranged with the
railroads for discriminating rates
which enable 1t TO keep competitors
out of certain territory and to exact
higher prices for oil than in other ter
,itory Not only is thisdhe finding of
he report but the president intimates
hat the sugar trust. the tobacco trust
md almost all of the other great cor
oorate combines are doing the same
hing as the Standard has done and he
appeals to congress to confer power
Upon some administrative body to OPP
IN the books of any corporation doing
interstate bushes and to name just |
ates arbitrarily where unjust rates
ire found. There is little mystery |
low. where the millions in money came,
rom with which to conduct the press |
bureau campaign against rate regula-
ion. With every trust in the country |
lard hit along with the railroads 1t |
s easy to see why so many senators
re proposing amendments. The pres
dent, however, is hard hitter when
lie fights.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

a good pilot earns $3.50 a month. F,V.
erything was conducted on the mos
lavish scale. The cabin furnishing:
We're palatial, the food fit for Lucullus
for service. No luxury or convenience
of the day was unprovided. Laundry
barbershops. saloon. the great passen-
ger boats carried them all. 1t was the
ideal mode of travel then as it is now
for those who have time.
Eight raftboats for the upper river
where only a few years ago every viii
lage had its sawmill and every mill its
flotilla! The rafting steamer was, In
the evolution of the lumber industry
the successor to the bearded and bar
barrie rafting crews that fought and
down the river guiding the wide RATS
with huge oars by day and reeling,
like Goths, by right of physical con-
quest, the shores where they tied up
at night. Only eight raft boats where
only few years ago the river tonnage
of the 'rafters" amounted to 500 mil
lion feet of lumber annually. One
Of these boats lowed. pushed and
coaxed down the Mississippi from Beef
Slough one raft that could not have
been carried by railroad train two
miles long. When eight raftboats con-
sitiute the lumber fleet of the upper
river there is an end at last to the
great northern pine forests that our
when clear lumber at S16 per NJ was
used to fence farms and build pig pens
and red cedar-real red cedar-fence
posts sold at shilling.
When the great canal has been COM
pleted and the commerce of two hem
ispheres surges thru the severed 18TH
mus, will prosperity come again to
the Mississippi? Will we send our
western grain, our packed meats and
our manufactures down the great river
to the gulf to the waiting vessels of the
Orient? The glamors and romance Of
the river are gone forever. Will it come
to life again as burden bearer Or
have the snorting locomotive and the
prosaic freight car, the engineer with
greasy overalls and the brakeman
nimble of foot and profuse of profanity
forever superseded the pilot with his
eye on the Jackstaff and the !eadsman
in the bow chains?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For Sunday Reading.
Al Sorts Of Opinions.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Rockefeller, Jr.'s Bible Class

ssSSs>S'S''S'y b
John d. Rockefeller Jr., discussing
the possession of wealth with his Bible
class, in the Fifth avenue church, adj
mitted there was no happiness in
merely having money, and deplored the
tendency of the age to regard earthly
possessions as the only things having
worth 1t was subject he had pre-
yiously avoided, but faced 1t when in
a study of the ten commandments, he
came to the tenth, Thou shalt not
covet." He said: S
Can we point to single individual
who has ever found real lasting hap
piness in mere possession? To have
things does not make people happy.
just mark my words if you do not be-
lieve that today because the expert
ence is invariably that the progress of
things-so the possessing of ma
terial wealtn-'does not bring happi-
ness. If you must covet, then covet
the good in man."
From this commandment, Mr.. Rock
efeller turned to laws touching on slay-
cry and polygamy, "an eye for an eye"
Gam / my brothers keeper" explain
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
Topics Of the Times

Is it possible that the ID" in Mr.
Perkins name stands for Dennis?
Constant Reader-Yes, Mr.. Perkins
got his back up about the time Cum
Minis made Blythe begin to hump HIM
self.
Perhaps when the Perkins promoters
assured Woodbury. county I'VE believe
in Perkins because he stands for what
Cummins stands for,' they only re-
ferred to his anxiety to stand for the
governorship
wire a protest against misrepresenta-
ton to him in the Des Moines Capital.
He must feel like a Cummins man.
"a great victory for Perkins" is the
title of syndicate editorial now APP
pearing in the Blythe newspapers. If
all of Perkins victories are like the
one referred to in Polk county Cum
Minis should have between LOO and
1900 delegates in the nominating con-
vention.
A Boston economist having made a
study of the negro in Africa now tells
the people of New England that the
black race is an inferior race to the
white and that we might just as we'll
face the facts. Shades of Wendell
Phillips!
A Berlin contemporary has discov-
cred that Germany's holding of for
eign obligations totals $4,000, 600, 900, or
four times the amount of the French
war indemnify striking instance of
the enormous rate at which the wealth
of the empire has accumulated in re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
"rhe Model Wife,

Taking "rhe Model Wife" as the text
for his sermon, Rev. A. r. Lambert
scored the present-day tendencies of
the mother to leave her household in
the care of servants and give her time
and energy to clubs. He declared that
the real throne of the model wife was
the home. He also made comparisons
between the women of different nations.
in which the American was placed far
in the lead. Among other things he
said:
Zone of the most lamentable tenden-
cies of the times is that which man
ifests a disposition to depreciate the
home and to turn the duties of wife
and mother over to domestics, while
the supposed head of the house gives
her time to club life, social functions,
etc, until the mother and wife be-
comes almost stranger to husband
and children.
For the husband to give his time
to other environs than the home life
to spend all his evenings at the club:
to linger over his cups or waste in the
gambling hell the hours he ought to
give to his wife and children: to fail
home life-is reprehensible indeed:
but for the wife to neglect the home
means to undermine the very founda-
lions Of the republic and cut off the
resources which make for the nations
we'll being and happiness.
"The model wife is consecrated wom-
anhood-building itself thru the days
and weeks and years into the lives of
her loved ones.
Some one has said: The English
woman is respectful and proud: the
French woman is gay and agreeable;
the Italian ardent and passionate; the
American is sincere and affectionate.
A man is married to an English woman
united to a French woman, cohabits
with an Italian and is welded to an
American. When an Englishman is
sick his lady visits him: when
Frenchman is sick his companion pities
him. when an Italian is sick his mis-
tress signs over him; when an Ameri-
can is sick his wife nurses him
.sThe real throne of the model wife
is the home. / know there are eX
ceptions. I am familiar with the Clara
cartons, the Joan of Arcs, the Frances
Wizards and others who have turned
aside from the home, actual or pros
.pective, and enriched the world by so
doing. But nevertheless, the throne
of womankind, and the model wife in
particular, is the home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

ing that they were necessary in that
age and that public opinion was in ia
vor of them.
There Is no use passing laws" he
said, against public opinion, for they
are not enforced In the times when
polygamy and slavery We're popular in
stitutions, laws sainst them would
have been Ineffective"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

cent years. The figure has been cited
as reply to the contention that tinan-
fcial stress would restrain Germany
from great war owing to the diff
I Guilty of realizing all this money. 1t is
| forgotten that the empire has war
chest fund of $50, 100000 sterling, which
was set apart from the French
milliards against the coming of an
other evil day This enormous sum
in gold has been lying for the last
thirty-tive years in the julius tower at
Spandau. In u real modern war, how
ever, s3O,0O0,000 would last only thirty
days.
LATE boldly declares that he could
have prevented Cummins going to the
national convention in 1904 II he had
wanted to- This must make Blythe
smile. LATE did make the demand
that he be given Cummins' place and
the Cummins 1hen. secretly, hoped
that he would get it, but Blythe set
tied with him in other coin as it We're
Plunger Walsh Will now have to
face the charge of having made
fraudulant report of his bank to the
government. In the course of years
the question of whether he stole So.
100000 or merely took that sum will
be adjudicated.
The Illinois legislature called in
special session by Governor Deneen to
disposed to trust the people to make
nominations by direct vote. II Dcneen
has the nerve that Cummins has he
will go to the people and force the
Legislature to be decent.
Whether the fanatics at Zion break
UP in shotgun row or are run in by
the police matters very little The
point to be remembered is that they
are fanatics and have Travelled the
road of fanatcism to its inevitable
end.
Blythe's Burlington Hawkeye is
elated editorially at Colonel Palmers
Triumph" in Polk county, for railroad
commissioner. Why shouldn't Mr..
Blythe be glat?
community would order the publication
of the tax assessment the public would
soon attend to the equalizing business
for them.
If the door of the United States sem
ate should open tonight said Mr..
Perkins, land there should be Il beck
oning finger to our handsome governor
the emergency would disappear as the
mists before the rising sun" However,
what now seems to be the majority
wing of the republican party in Iowa
and without the entanglements Of
George DR.. Perkins for governor.
p. G.. Kenyon, president of the Des
Moines Commercial club, who has just
returned from California, reverses Hor-
ace Greeley's famous advice, and eau
tions young men Well situated in the
east to stay where they are.
Just think how Howard Ram must
feel.
Delaware, my Delaware!
His neck is meath the despots heel.
Delaware. my Delaware!
Defying every standpat coup
You went for cummins with a whoop,
And Howard Ram is in the soup,
Delaware, my Delaware!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

flSoI anu CuSSIlul-
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys arc
out of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncorn
mon for a child to BIZ
born afflicted with
weak kidneys, If the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
Women as Well as Men Are Made
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the 1nint.,
discourages and lessensambition; beauty,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
IOWA aflkloNs AND NOTES.

The Davenport Times suggests that,
altho the corporation may not be i'm
prisoned for violating the anti-trust
laws, it's assets may be impounded and
its administration placed in the hands
of a receiver. Perhaps this will be
done when the fight against the trusts
becomes earnest" Then 1t sarcastic
cally says: ut can never be called
earnest until the politicians are found
willing to apply one rule to all trusts,
whether of capital or of labor, and
whether largo or small The law does
not distinguish between a packers
trust and combination of retail mer-
chants, but the politicians and the of
ficers of the Jaw have no difficulty In
making the distinction
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches al;
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bedwet
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diff
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the frs,
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition OF
the kidneys and bladder and not to q
i,aDit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made niiser'
able with kidney and bladder trouble
and both need the same great remedy
The mild and the immediate effect O
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sole
by druggists, i'll fifty GNHS--
cent and one-dollar sss::asI
size bottles. Ycu may
have a sample bottle ss l4ssssssaA
by mail free, also Home of swampn0os
pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root
including many of the thousands of testi
,nonial letters received from sufferer
cured. In writing DR.. Kilmer & Co.
Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and mention
khis paper. Don't make any mistake,
kEs remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr.. Kilmer's Swanp-Root, and the adj
lress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
hottie
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

whether large or small. The law does
not distinguish between a packers
trust and a combination of retail mer-
chants, but the politicians and the of
ficers of the Jaw have no difficulty in
making the distinction"
",rhe governor neatly turned a trick
against Brother Jarnagn," says the
Waterloo Tines Tribune, referring to
Cummins' speech at Cedar Falls,
when, replying to criticisms of pres
ent state expenditures, he turned to
the audience and asked, Mr. Jarnagin
being elected to the legislature, if one
of his first acts would be to prune the
appropriation for the State Normal
School, The mere query almost pre-
cipitated a number of heart failures"
Even if the Man With the Hoe was
destroyed in the San Francisco fire, it
is possible that few photographs of
the famous picture can be found scat
tered over the country" remarks the
Iowa City Republican,.
The Burlington Hawkeye says: "The
attempt to cut out the government dis
tribution was defeated by what is gem
orally known in political parlance as a
"comfortable' neutrality-suspicious. in
this case no doubt to the beneflciaries
of the free distribution CUSTOM
The Sioux City Journal confesses to
one conversion in this campaign when
it says: "'rhe Journal has advocated
ord now o6vnootac loyal Ya1 urinary
that will do away with the evil COM
planned of as we'll as the allied evil
of snap caucuses When the matter
was under consideration by the legis
lature the Journal did not think that
even this sort of election reform was
particularly urgent in Iowa. Since
the present campaign has been in prog
ress reason has been found for changl
ing this opinion"
The Boone Republican says that
whatever Mr.. Herriott may say, he
will not be in the governorship race.
The Republican thinks it would be lu-
dicrous in the extreme for Mr. Henri
OFT to attempt to enlist support away
from home when his own county is not
for him. "Atho we have always held
him in high regard" adds the Republic
can, I'VE must regard his judgment
very poor if he does not get out of the
race"
IF Governor Cummins is democrat,
as the corporal ton tools assert, then
Iowa is a democratic state.' says the
Webster City Freeman-ITribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

Even if the Man With the Hoe was
destroyed in the San Francisco fire, it
is possible that a few photographs of
the famous picture can be found scat
tered over the country" remarks the
Iowa City Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05

IF Governor Cummins is a democrat,
as the corporation tools assert, then
Iowa is a democratic state" says the
Webster City Freeman Tribune.