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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24
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September Sale of Furniture.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
TERMS:
NO MORE FREE SEEDS.

A bare majority of the house COM
mittee on agriculture has refused TO
continue the custom of buying and DIS
tributing seeds as a perquisite OF con-
gressmen. 1t has been customary TO
appropriate $4,000 as an annual APP
preparation for some years for the pur-
pose of defraying the cost of supplying
each senator and representative with
some $4,000 packages OF farm ana
garden seeds for distribution among
his constituents each year. The orig
inaI purpose of the free seed distribu-
ton was proper and worthy, the early
appropriations being for the purpose OF
distributing rare plants and improving
the conditions and quality of vegetable
seed thruout the country. This pur-
pose has been entirely lost sight OF IN
recent wears, and the appropriation has
been used almost entirely for the pur-
pose of distributing vegetable seeds
purchased of seed growers or jobbers,
without reference to their quality or
rarity.
There has been much complaint OF
the custom and will be much congrat-
ulation over its abolition. There may
have been at one time some sense in it.
OF late years it has degenerated into
a weak graft, and it is well that 1T has
been relegated as obsolete and worth
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
a PICTURE OF SPRING.

Four farm horses hitched to hay
rack wagon, and straining at their load
thru the mud, the rack loaded with
household effects, two COWS tied to the
rear end of the wagon, four or hVe
scrawny yearlings following, and per-
haps boy and blind horse bringing
up the rear, and we have fair picture
of the first of March on some country
highways in Iowa. Renters are NOV
ing.
WHY do farmers move from farm to
farm in this abject way? Why do so
many men shift about every spring in
stead of trying to gain permanency in
possessions by means of permanency
in locatione Is not there room for i'm
provement in our method of renting
land? A man we'll schooled in business
can not look upon the average caravan
which denotes the first of March With
out thinking that 500 land in Iowa
should be leased for periods of five and
ten years just as valuable store build
ings are leased. This 500 land is
poor investment for the non resident
owner unless it can rent for Sc to 81
per acre, yet not one farm in hum
dred in Iowa will bring this price from
a renter. Why? Largely because the
renter is uncertain in his tenure. He
expects to move again next March,
hence he improves nothing about the
place. There is no inducelnent to him
to patch up "a building, stop a wash In
the land or haul out manure upon the
fields. If he had a ten years lease
upon the place, he could well afford
to do all these things and seed worn
out fields to clover besides. He could
even afford to plant fruit trees for he
would know that he would stay upon
the place long enough to reap the harry
ests from all such improvements.
A 1O-yeartenure would offer aninduce-
nlent to the class of farmers that can
not now afford to rent lands from
year to year. The young men grad
uating from Iowa farms go west and
buy land, giving 6 per cent mortgages
as part payment. Many an owner OF
500 land in Iowa would be more than
pleased to get per cent net on his in
vestment, and on ten-year leases these
young men could we'll afford to work
these Iowa farms and let the owners
get their per cent Farming them as
their fathers farm the land across the
road there would be profit to the ten
ant. Some such system must be
evolved before 500 land will return
fair income to the resident
owner. The renters caravan must be
obliterated as the symbol of spring in
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
NEURALGIA CURED
PATIENT GIVES ALL THE CREDIT
TO DR.. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS.
Disease Had Attacked the Heart and
Would Doubtless Have Been Fa-
tai Had Right Remedy Not
Been Taken.

That DR.. Williams Pink Pills viii
doubt. So many severe cases of this
nainful disease have yielded to these
Mills that the sufferer who is prevented
by prejudice from trying the remedy
deserves little sympathy. And there IS
no disease in which the PAIN IS more
acute, more agonlzing thah III soiiie
forms of neuralgia, The disease IS no.
( only painful but dangerous, as II IS
liable to attack the heart when' unless
speedily cured, it is frequently fa'ai.
Mrs. Charles Schultz, OF 1i9 Ihoiiias
street. Newark, n. j., suffered 1of seN.
an years with neuralgia which attacheo
her heart and which did not yiela W
the usual remedies The story Oh lne
cure is best told in her own Wofos. siie
says: ;. 10. NO
with a weak heart. Then L LOON co'o
and a severe pain settled In the region
; of my heart My suffering was Amos -.
beyond description. I could not tax
and the pain caught me at every
breath. The awful pains Woulo coiiie
IN suddenly and I would have to SIT
right down. 1 could not walk anu
would get dizzy for a time.
II was confined to bed Tor 1oul
r-eaLs at one time and nothing seemes'
to do me any good ! was unoei !"
tnhvsician's care for months. he pro-
,,o,,nced NV trouble neuralgia OF the
heart and prescribed for me. Inc Cap
.ules he gave me relieved me Ior
fine but the pain came back again:
.,Finally. DR.. Williams Pink fllls
were recommended to me by laos
whose husband had been cured o.
naralysis by them and l decloeo ~
five the pills a good trial. While was
IN the second box ] began to see an
,nnroyement, the pains became less
franuent and at last / was enhreiy
eured. This was some time ago ou'
nave had no relapse and nave Dee,l
:, rood health ever since. I think
+hare Is no medicine to equal DR.. Will
Jams Pink Pills.
Neuralgia is the cry of the nerves
FOR food. 1t means starved nerves
like every other part of the poay lne
nerves receive their nourlsnmenl u, =
+he blood. DR.. Williams PINK FMS
actually make new blood which carries
Ia the starved nerves the elements liies
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=. Food cures hunger. They contain
ut one particle of opiate, morphine. CO.
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cure troubled nerves oy feiioNiii
the cause of the trouble.
Tn the same way, by building ul
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cured such diseases as anaernla' rneu.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
Iowa Newspapers
A MOMENT WITH A CRITIC.

We would like to ask our friend OF
the Spirit Lake Beacon. Senator Funk.
a question If Mr.. Perkins would
have agreed to appoint the governor to
the United States senate in case OF s.
vacancy, would the Beacon have es-
teemed it solemn duty to oppose his
candidacy for governor in the Eleventh
district? Frankly, now, wouldn't such
pre-convention pledge have made Mr..
Perkins perfectly acceptable to the
Beacon and the faction which it repre-
sents ?-Mancheste Press.
The Beacon is glad to get square
whack at this contemplate standpat
proposition. Any man aspiring to the
governorship who would promise
Governor Crmmins or any other man
an appointment to the United States
senate in case of a vacancy would be
beneath the decent respect Of honest
men everywhere.
Is this satisfactory, Brother Ram?
.s.9.:.
PRIMARIES BRING OUT VOTERS.
[Fort Dodge Chronicle.]
If there ever was an argument in
favor of the primary law it comes from
Minneapolis, where the very first year
it was put into effect 81 per cent of
the voters turned out. Since that time
the number has increased to nearly
100 per cent, while in the old caucus
days it was a scant per cent that was
on hand-a minority that named can
didates for the majority.
When the great mass of the voters
turn out, as in Minneapolis, it is prac-
fo, fo1 n
capture the convention and have the
primary law means fully and truly a
government of the people, by the
people and for the people" The eau
Gus means anything but this.
The primary law, as presented in the
Crossley bill, is probably not perfect.
There are without doubt grave defects
in it, but there is at least this in it's
favor. 1t means displacement of COR
poration and machine power, and it
means the setting up of the will of the
whole people instead of the will of the
few. The primary bill means the Ger
tain downfall Of ali political graft.
Speaking of errors and defects. Are
there not errors and defects in the
Australian ballot system, but would
we displace it and go back to the old
method where the smooth tongued
politician got the voter off to one side,
and even marked his ballot to suit his
the politicians) ends?
| The primary law, while there may
be and undoubtedly are Objectionable
features, is at least a truly democrat
| lie principle and portends to the
placing of the power with the people,
where it belongs. That is what the
people of Webster county and the citi-
zens of Webster county are looking
for. They want the power of selection
| to rest with the whole people of the
state. The primary is move that
means this very thing, and II the leg
| islature of the state o. Iowa does not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02

ing at Boston. Miss Shaw is an or
dained minister of the Methodist
Protestant church, has received the de-
gree of d. d. and also is homeopathic
physician. She lectured in almost
every state and territory in the union
and has Travelled in Europe, the West
Indies and South America.
1t is said that the $25o,0OO heretofore
appropriated for free seeds to be dis
tributed by congressman among con-
stituents has been turned down in
committee and that hereafter we shall
all be obliged to depend on the seeds
men or go without garden truck.
$25O,OO0 would put over 500 rural mail
routes into working order for year.
The Indianapolis Sentinel, the organ
Of Indiana democracy, has been sus-
pended. The democratic party itself
has been hung up for long time.
Scientific announcement that per
manent fatigue" begins at the age of
25 leaves us still in the dark as to
what ails the messenger boy.
A sarcastic friend of Senator Bailey
called upon him in Washington few
DAYS ago, having with him his bright
little son. You should try to get your
boy appointed to West Point or Anna :
polls" said the senator "Oh, no." said
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
WHERE is THE DANGER TO THE pARrY7"

The persistency of the report that
President Roosevelt has come to a
compromise with the railroad interests
is evidence of the tremendous pressure
which is being brought to bear upon
the White House. The latest story is
to the effect that the president ito save
the party has given in and has let 1t
become known that he is prepared to
submit to three amendments, one by
Spooner, providing for the payment into
court the excess Of charges on all ship
ments: that if a rate fixed by the COM
mission is set aside by an injunction
on appeal to the court the road shall,
while the case is pending, pay into
court on all shipments affected by the
rate in question the excess of charges
over the rate established by the COM
mission, this to be held by the court
and turned over to the shipper or the
railroad, according to whether the rail-
road losses or wins the suit Another.
the authorship of which is attributed
to Attorney General Moody and Inter-
state Commerce Commissioners Knapp
and Prouty, provides that carrier may
bring suit to set aside an order of the
commission if it has exceeded it's au-
thority, or when it is alleged that con-
stitutional rights of persons or corpora
lions are invaded; tire third spec
iously provides that the rate as ordered
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
NOT THE PERKINS WAY
IFort Dodge Chronicle.l

The report Of the Cummins mass
meeting held in this city Wednesday
evening. as furnished the Sioux CITY
Journal by Fred Davis, is great sur
prise to all who were present at the
meeting. While the report was caustla
and antagonistic turnout, showing any
ching but good taste, this might have
been forgiven. But the position taken
by Mr. Davis with regard to the origin
and motives Of the meeting, ana ms
assertions in the face of the statement
made by Governor Cummins, that II
was antagonistic to Senator DolllVer
are inexcusable. He even went SO far
as to state that it was originated by
republicans of Fort Dodge who were
piaued at the senator mentioned. All
of this in the face of the fact that Mr..
Davis sat upon the platform within
few feet of the governor and heard him
saw with regard to his intention OF
leaving Senator Delivers job alone:
1T intend to make this so explicit
that the man who hereafter says that
there is any conflict between his anlb1-
tons and mine, or that it is necessary
to be my enemy in ordeN to be his
friend. will be convicted Of a malicious
falsehood before any court OF con-
science and fair dealing"
There is but one way Of accounting
satisfactorily for the report going into
the Journal reading as it does and that
is it must have arrived after Mr.. Per-
leins had gone home from the office. 1t
is not creditable that Mr.. Perkins, HIM
self, a man of honor, would have AL
lowed the report to go in as 1t was.
Mr.. Davis report of the meeting, to
say the least, is nothing If not base
Misrepresentation of it's intentions and
its objects. In fact, while 1T is true
that Senator Dolliver was not consult
ed. it was called for the very pur-
pose of bringing Senator Dolliver and
Governor Cumnlins, as we'll as their
mutual friends, closer together. 1t was
conceived and carried out in the spirit
of harmony in Webster county and this
section of the state. 1t is acknowl-
edged that there were very few
friends of the senator who questioned
the motives of the governor some time
back. but his declarations both at
storm Lake and in Fort Dodge proved
these suspicious groundless, now the
last of these skeptics have expressed
themselves as willing to step into the
Cllrnmins procession
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02

find place where he could get in to
hear the debates. Finally he brought
up before a door which he evidently
thought led to gallery, though in fact
it was the main entrance through
which members enter.
Mister" he inquired. attracting the
doorkeepers attention with a prodig-
ious cotton umbrella, "how much does
it cost to get in hyare?"
II can't tell you exactly" responded
the doorkeeper. "The price varies. 1t
cost William r. Hearst $4,000; it cost
Curtis of Kansas $4,000, and there are
some men who get in for nothing but
all those are from the south.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
by the commission shall become eff
fective in reasonable" time.

oNSOAAsN
fective in reasonable" time.
Those whose confidence in Roose-
velt's courage remains mistaken, are
not ready to credit the report of his
weakening, sent out from Washington,
even on absolute authority" Injection
of the court review feature into the
bill and change from the definite to
the Indebtedness of reasonable
time" for the commissions rate to go
into effect, is simply emasculation of
the bill We are not ready in the west
to believe that the president has laid
down.
Who is threatening the disruption
OF the party? Not the rate bill, upon
which eight voters out of every ten
are agreed as just and necessary
measure 1t has been put up to
Roosevelt that to save his party he
must compromise with the special IN
terests Who is putting up this threat?
| The corporations. Who made it impos-
SIDE 10 SeI luS I'LL Jul VI ihASs
except by the aid of the democrats?
Simply the senatorial representatives
of CORPORATIONS on that committee,
headed by Aldrich. Who endeavored to
rob Dolliver Of the credit justly due
him. to slap the president in the face
and force the bill into the false attl-
tude of democratic measure by fore
ins it's presentation by personal zoe
of the president and a democrat II the
grossest type? Aldrich, the head and
front of corporation offence in the SEN
ate. Now, who are threatening the life
of the party? Aldrich, Elkins, and
their crew of corporate banditti whose
theory of government is greedy exploit
| alton of the masses and whose place
in politics is that of stockbroker on
change.
/ Dolliver has fought this fight. He
has stood by the people and the presi-
dent. It is hard to see how man OF
Rooseyelt's character can desert him.
Whatever may happen, let Dolliver
stand four-square. Behind him Is the
overwhelming sentiment of his state
and the great empire west OF the
/ Alpalachians. Should Roosevelt de-
sert ,him-as no one is ready to belleVe
he may-Dolliver fighting for the rate
| hill in the last ditch, will be the over
/ shadowing figure in the politics OF the
great west.
The actual danger to the republican
party lies in su]bservlence 10 the
demands of the railroad interests. Rate
regulation is not democratic measure,
whatever the Aldrichs may say or do.
! The public is looking to the majority
for an honest bill. If it fails to enact
the law demanded the democratic party
will he stronger than it has been in
/ twenty-five years. With the spread OF
Intelligence and the dissemination on po-
litical news among agriculturists, due
to rural mail facilities, a new order mas
arrived. The farmer is new force IN
politics, and subservience to corporate
orders is the quickest method OF
alternating this agricultural sentiment
that has almost reached the dignity OF
organization. Rate regulation is a
farmers, shippers, business mans
movement in the west. Can the repub-
lican party hold the agricultural states
against the charge that it has sub
mitted to the dictation of the trusts:
Danger to the party! The danger to the
party lies west of the Appalachian
! range,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
THE STATE PRIMARY.


the best interests of their constituents. |
.:-.-:.
THE STATE PRIMARY,
Esprit Lake Beacon1
These are days of vital issues, and no
issue now under consideration in Iowa
and other states comes so close to the
people as the primary. A number of
states have already enacted laws for
state primary elections. Many coun- |
ties in Iowa have for years selected
party candidates thru the medium
of the primary. There are faults in
the system to be considered, but in
Dickinson county as in many others, Il
movement for abandoning this method
of nomination would meet with bitter
opposition, and ignominious defeat.
There is more argument in favor of
state than of county primaries. In the
local field the people can keep the eau
Gus under better control for they have
remedy at the polls, in case of unac-
ceptable caucus work. In the matter
of district and state nominations
large party majority can cover multi
tude of caucus and convention sins
The voter is so remote from the real
point of decision. He simply votes for
a man who votes for another man VINO
in turn votes for the candidate. The
voter takes all the chances of losing
out thru treachery bribery prelu-
dice and favoritism. NO wonder inter-
est wanes in the affairs OF practlcal
politics when there are afforded SO
many slips between the vote In caucus
and the final result. 1t is not safe TO
assume that If the voter could in the
| privacy of the election booth
| Vote directly for candidates,
| Have his vote duly recorded,
| Know the ballot has value equal
with that of any other in the state,
Avoiding all chance of barter ana
dicker,
Having a chance to help nominate
United States senators,
Judging public men by their record
and utteranceS and
| Holding them accountable at the
primary election,
Verify, it is safe to assume that
there would be more interest in poll
tics on the part of the average voter
and the wider the interest the safer the
| affairs of popular government.
| No political or economic reform UNI
der consideration is so vitality impor-
| tant to all the people. Men may Gavin
over details, but in this as in other
vital issues the principle is the thlng
In plain language the primary simply
means to give every man his due IN
fuence and no more in shaping the
ticket and the policies of his party.
Then there can be no rings. save IN the
muddled mind Of the agitator, ana tne
nolitical boss is out of job.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02

suitable regulations. One thing or the
other should be done; and If the ldea
of state dispensaries is to be shteeo
to the shoulders of the express com
panies. it should be done with sultaoie
regulations to bring them ana theii
agents within the purview OF lhe s'a.e
laws to the end that revenue and quai-
ity may become considerations IN lhe
transaction"
"When did the governor become an
eelic and Mr.! Perkins a man not 10
be trusted?" inquiries the Sioux CITY
Journal.
The Manson Democrat says we are
making poor butter in Iowa ana eA-
claims ooh. days of my youth re-
turn, Give back to me the golden
dairy butter my mother used to make.
Grease my hankering insides with the
sweet. smooth article that was the
product of the prairie grass and the
prarie lass. Out upon these modern
methods Of butter making. away WIN
the hurry and hustle and dirt OF the
new way" damn the dimpled DAIRY
maids, confusion to the "two-doliar-a-
day-transient- trade specially hotels
and give US decent butter"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02

"Colonel Henderson's struggles and
his triumphs We're largely also those of
the people Of the Third district" says
the Waterloo Courier. The honors
which he won were their also. His
battles were their battles. They fol-
lowed him in confidence and their con-
fidence was never betrayed"
The Rock Rapids Reporter urges the
enactment of anti-pass legislation. 1t
is a question which is going to be set
lied one way or the other it says, land
if it is not settled right this time there
| is going to be another set OF men en-
! trusted with the matter the next time.
| The Manson Journal believes that
| had Governor Cummins ordered dis
| missed the case against LATE Young
| for alleged overcharges of about $4,000
{ for work done while he was state bind
! err "the story the Capital is telling to-
| day would have a different coloring."
| Replying to the question How do
| people get liquor?" the Marengo Re-
publican says: About the first reply
will be an off hand shot at the "boot-leg
! ger" Then the ordinary guesser and
| overly suspicious will say the soup
Joints" and so they go on guessing.
We are frank to say that we believe
| these off-hand predictions are largely
without foundation. and that a lot of
tmen are being blamed for the present
condition of things who are blameless;
or at least that but very small per
| cent of the liquor comes in and goes
out thru these agencies in comparison
to the grand total that comes in by the
express route Of course we are not
attaching blame to the local express
agent, for he merely receives and de-
livers packages in the ordinary course
of his business without participation
in profits or otherwise But we do say
that the express companies are the
greatest boot leggers in the state of
Iowa today. And yet continues the
Republican, "our Legislature refuses to
enact laws either to shut off the foun-
tain of supply or even make the ex-
press companies public dispensers with