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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-04-20

Little by little the world 10
coming back 70 IN understand
iug Of the great. the deep and
the simple truths that ages have
obscured. The human mind Ii.
self has lbs winters aud It's vern !
IL days. There are a thousand
signs ~ this n. essnt hour u Nj
awaxening Of perceptions aud Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
Topics Of the Times

Come on with the strawhat and the
spring poem.
Seed corn coming all right?
The Nevada Representative has
changed from a weekly to three times
a week This is progressive" move.
Zion City has concluded to stand pat
no longer and the prince of standpat
tiers, in his particular line, is out of a
job.
The fact that Chilli has borrowed
s12,50OOO0 unconsciously sends mem
DRY back to Mrs Chadwick.
Whether or not Mr. Elkins is friend
ly to rate regulation he certainly is
fond of Mr.. Perkins.
Now that the theory of Spontaneous
generation" is again receiving scientif-
ic attention some inquiring scientist
should turn his attention to the polit;-
car SUITES III llc DOS S@Pi
tai.
The delay In the Sn1oot case may be
in order to let the senator's three
wives continue their perfect work of
punishment
The New Jersey house has passed
the senate bill abolishing capital pun
shment by hanging and substituting
the electrocution chair. The result
however will be the same. Electrocu-
ton is simply the tastier method.
At a meeting of the executive coun-
Gil of the American federation of labor,
at Washington, action was taken to-
ward the more active participation of
union labor bodies In national politics.
This will be along the lines of ques-
tioning candidates for public offices
upon questions affecting the interests
of labor and the people generally. As
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
gh,res- 922erah, saraa1llttn1l au,ua. Apri1 1906

to appear before the legislative COM
mittees and speeches are made ana
repa.red publicly. Less than year
ago President Meilen made a lohS
speech before a committee that pro-
posed reporting a law concerning the
third rail system, and his open arSu-
mems converted the committee and IN
cidentally the legislature and the pee
pie 10 his way of thinking HOW are
such things managed in Iowa? What
was Mr.. Blythe doing in Des MONIES
two whole days just before the iegls-
lature assembled? There's very nee
man now in hotel in Des Moines, mas
been there ever since the legislature
assembled He's an attorney Tor a Dig
railroad that crosses Iowa. why are
his rooms so frequently occupied by
members of this legislature? Why does
he have so many callers during the
evening and so few in the daytime
Maybe he too is a member of gel
49, ~. ,.1,rt "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04

to Iowa in the interests of the Per-
kns' candidacy. Why? Mr.. Perkins
is historically not a standpatter. He
is tariff revsionist Why is every
railroad and corporation force in Iowa
and out boosting Mr.. Perkins? MT.
Perkins is no tool of the corporations
He eonfesses to that much. And yet
all the corporations are for Perkins. 1t
is strange situation.
The corporations know George u.
Perkins They know his love of "har-
mony,' his weakness toward the WIN
ming side He has never under any
circumstances been a trouble maker
for corporations Owing his nomina-
ton to the corporations how is ne TO
get from under his obligations to the
men and interests who made him? 1t
is the easiest thing in the world to
DENY connection with corporations, the
hardest thing in the world to get away
from the men and interests who spent
their TIME ana IuTlllSlleu tie utolieS lol
successful campaign. Does any one
believe that the corporations are ex-
pending time and treasure to nominate
Mr.. Perkins without hope of reward?
The political altruism of Iowa railroad
corporations would rattle in a mustard
seed
Mr.. Perkins intentions may be of
the best. But good intentions are
plentier in hades than asphalt is in
Iowa. His political record is a palimp-
sest of good intentions, blotted by non
performance.
The chart of his political course is
vacillating, tortuous, indecisive. He has
tackled and veered and backed and
filled with the winds that blew. The
essence of his nature is compromise
and this is no time for compromise.
Mr. Perkins is an upright and useful
man. SO Is a crowbar useful and
necessary tool to honest labor but the
burglar finds it an excellent substitute
for Jimmy Mr.. Perkins may be
sincere when he says he is not using
the railroads. 1t is evident however,
that the corporations are counting on
using Mr.. Perkins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
PLAN A NEW NAVY

According to a Washington CORE
spondent, President Roosevelt and
Secretary Bonaparte have come to the
conclusion that the United States must
build an entirely new navy within the
next six years. The present fighting
fleet must be put out of commission
and a new one substituted, composed of
to-date warships.
The lighting fleet today consists Of
seventeen vessels, nearly of W hich are
out of date, or rapidly becoming so.
Unfortunately, ten Of these seventeen
vessels are of the monitor type. 1t is
Recognized by all experts that the linn
itations of the monitor. with its low
freeboard, it's limited steaming radius,
and it's few guns, cause it to be quite
outclassed by the modern battleship.
The other seven vessels of the fighting
feet are four first class and one second
class battleships and two armored
cruisers.
Astonishing as it may seem, these
battleships are now universally conced-
ed to be small and slow.
The estimate of s121,50o,000 asked
for the coming year includes only two
new battleships. AS it takes from three
to five years to build a modern battle
ship. and as the new craft must be
ready within six years to replace the
old, it is evident that what is not au-
thorize at this session of congress will
have to be by the next.
While no official admissions have
been made, there is feeling said to
exist that under present conditions,
with the few vessels that can be spared
from the Atlantic fleets, there is prac:
tically nothing left to make any real
resistance if trouble should come with
Japan or with any of the nations main
tanning considerable fleets in oriental
waters,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04

in our public men!" said one of the
teachers "But there is Senator Lodge
He doesn't drink, does he?" ooh, no.
replied the guide. "He is a teetotaler.
He even thins his water"
as
The largest commission handed out
TO a Yale man recently is the job
which has been offered to Yu Chuan
Chang, 1903, by the emperor of China.
He has invited Chang to look up the
legal system of Germany and to make
an official report of it to the imperial
government. Chang has just accepted
the invitation and has gone to Berlin
to begin his task. His report will be
made to the imperial Chinese commits
sion which is now touring this country.
Chang was given the degree of doctor
of common law from the Yale law
school three years ago, graduating with
high honors.
A Chinese correspondent states that
a Japanese has imported about three
thousand Japanese widows, whom he
offers for sale either as domestic ser
wants or as secondary wives. Photo
graphs are first shown to intending
purchasers who then make their Sc
lection, and the woman is weighed and
her value calculated ON basis of 60
cents a cattle CChinese pound)
Overheard in Chinese Kitchen. =
The cook.-The mistress has new
husband.
The Waitress-Do you think he'll
stay?-Philadelphia Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
GEORGE E. ROBERTS TRICK.

The Fort Dodge Messenger, owned,
controlled and edited at long range by
George Il. Roberts, director of the mint,
is shouting itself hoarse in a futile eff
fort to impress the republicans of Web
ster county that Delivers seat is in
danger, and that a Cummins victory
means defeat for the senator. In this
laudable attempt to carry out the pro-
gram offered by the Perkins manage
ment it is being supported and assisted
by the Des Moines Capital. Cady
Chase's victory in Hamilton county is
pointed out as direct assault on Dol
liver, engineered by the Cummins
crowd, that are, according to the Mes
senger thirsting for Delivers polit-
ical life. 1t is all mere trick, a word
workers story, descent to misrepre-
sentation and falsehood unworthy of a
newspaper like the Messenger, and a
man like George e. Roberts.
1t is having little effect in Webster
county. Roberts came back to Fort
Dodge and spent some days there Of
fering instructions to northwestern
voters and especially those of Webster
onA adjoining counties. The phone
was busy. The burden Of his Macedon-
ian cry into Kossuth and other nearby
precincts was: Don't instruct, for
Gods sake, instruct" But Kossuth in
structed, and Roberts it is said, before
he went despondently back to his duties
in the east conceded Webster county
to Cummtns The bald falsity of the
trick was apparent to every one. The
people refused to be fooled.
George L. Roberts is the author Of
the famous shelter" plank in the Ce-
dar Rapids platform. He originated it.
From his position in the east and his
knowledge of the west, he long ago
foresaw the fight between the people
and the corporations. He put his knowl
edge into words in letter to a prom
make a bold stand in convention, argu-
ed Mr.. Roberts. 1t was suggested that
he put his views into a resolution. He
did. 1t was the shelter plank and car
ried at the convention as part of Iowa's
platform. 1t is to be presumed that
Senator Dolliver approved it. Other
wise it is not likely that Mr.. Roberts
would have offered it. Later Senator
Dolliver spoke not altogether uncertain-
ly on the matter of tariff revision. He
told us how he helped make the Ding
ley law and that 20 per cent of it's
schedules, We're simply trading stock.
Cady Chase is standing where Dol
liver stood. Perhaps Mr.. Chase is not
occupying such advanced ground as
George Roberts took when he wrote the
shelter plank, but Chase is a Dolliver-
Roberts republican of four years ago.
What is the matter of Chase? Why is
his nomination blow at Deliver?
The DOGGY man business is played
out The people are thinking I'd list
ening. They supported Chase because
he represents the principles of the
square deal When George E. Roberts
attacks Cady Chase, he simply stulti-
fies himself.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
MR.. PERKINS DENIAL,

Hon. George d. Perkins in his Sioux
City Journal of today prints card
denying. that he is tool of the CO..
porations and saying that were he to
be made governor and give his inf1u-
ence "to aid in debauching the state
by machine rule the office would be
a curse to me-" He offers no guaran-
tee of his honorable intentions save his
"record in business and politics may
afford
Mr.. Perkins might have helped HIM
self by palmer speaking and an earlier
denial. With proverbial caution he
has delayed until Cummins has the
state practically won, until the temper
of his own district has been tested and
ference in politics. Coming after the
farmers of Kossuth had warned the
corporation managers that the agricul-
turaiists are awake and watchful Mr..
Perkins chirp of self assertiveness
sounds unexpectedly weak. His card
is no answer to the demand of the
voters that he should make his posi-
ton clear. He simply denies that he
is corporation tool.
Mr.. Perkins personal integrity has
never been in actual question. His
business record is one of continued
success. He is great editor. His po-
litical record is as vacillating as a
pendulum. Politically Mr. Perkins us
ually lands on the side with the most
artillery. In these days it is prima
facie evidence of indecision or hypo-
crisy that politician should within
four years be leader of progressive
republicanism and the candidate for
governor of the railroad crowd. And
we want neither indecision nor hypo-
crisy in the executive chair of the
state of Iowa. Our standpat brethren
have forced the game to showdown
Accepting Mr.. Perkins assertion of
personal purity, he still remains the
candidate of the corporations. The
railroads are for Perkins. Why? The
railway attorneys of the Jim Hill
holdings have been conducting his cam
paign. Why? Even Steve Elkins, gen
eraIissimo of the national corporation
crew has found it advisable to butt in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
M4>aleez@
LaFoIlette in the Senate.


Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is
not saying much in the senate. but
what he says and does is effective. Thru
his watchfulness and knowledge of
schemes he has prevented the consum-
nation of a deal thru the five tribes
bill whereby corporations might have
secured possession of 100000 acres of
Indian coal lands valued at S4,000,00O.-
900. The senator has not as yet taken
part in the rate regulation debate, but
Is actively cooperating with the sup
porters of the Hepburn bill When
Senator Bailey was called away by the
death of his father the Wisconsin sem
ator took the Texas senator's seat as
general counsel to Senator Tillman,
custodian of the rate bill. The New
York Times correspondent says this
combination between republican and
a democrat is a curious Illustration OF
the extent to which party lines have
disappeared in the debate. 1t attract
ed no comment, and it seemed perfectly
natural that "A republican senator
should take the place of democrat
as counsel to. another democrat. From
the beginning of the session the pro-
affairs has been continuous. The state
hood bill, sent over by the house as
party measure and dragooned thru that
body by appeals to stand by the Or
ganiZation, was disposed of in the sem
ate without the slightest attention to
craftsmanship. There was no party di-
vision in the disposition of the Phll-
ippine tariff bill. There had been lin
gering traces of party division. how
ever. prior to the advent of the rate
bill. What finally broke 1t up was the
sensational performance of MI. AID
rich in placing Tillman. a democrat,
i'm charge of President Roosevelt's in
terests."
The other day Senator La Toilette
sat in Delivers seat In the back row
listening intently to McCumper
speech. when Representative Bapcock
entered the chamber The two are ioes
to the death. The senator nearly BOWED
Rabcock out of congress two years ago
and has a long knife whetted for hist
scalp this year.
,Babcock rolled along back of the
seats in preoccupied way and flung
himself down in Ayers seat, which is
next TO DolllVef ). men ne eui HS"
about toward the Wisconsin senator to
see who his neghbor might be and
shake hands with him in the CUSTOM
cry manner of representatives when
they visit the senate. When he saw
who his neighbor was, look of horror
possessed his entire countenance, his
jaw fell and he hurriedly gathered
himself together and fled thru the side
door.
La Toilette sat thru it all with
castiron smile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
The Pure Food Roll of Honor.

Good Housekeeping" we'll known
household national magazine volun-
tarily made a thorough examination
and test of None Such Mince Meat and
placed it without reservation upon its
roll of honor
In the March number of Good
Housekeeping. in the department OF
"Pure Food Assurance" we find:
"None-Such Mince Meat, Merrill
soule Company. Syracuse, a semi
moist condensed compound of beef
apples, spices, sugar. raisins, currants
boiled cider, and salt, without other
conservatives or adulterants. no artifi-
cial coloring produced under condl-
lions as near to sanitary perfection as
possible"
This guarantee, which could not be
bought at any price, ought to satisfy
the most particular housewife Ihe
sale OF one million packages month
seems to prove the statement to be
true. Your grocer sells None-Such.
TRY it. and satisfy yourself You are
the one.
Gen. Luke E. Wright, the newly APP
pointed ambassador to Japan, Will san
from Seattle for his new post on April
%. General Wright is still governor
general of the Philippines, but Will re-
linuuish that office upon taking his
am ha ssa dorial OATH
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
Surprise Was Complete.

Socked!-"We l,no," said the land
lord of the Pruntytown tavern, in re-
ply to the inquiry of the patent churn
man. there amt been anything of inn
portance going on here of late but the
sock-social given by the ladies of the
Methodist church, one night last
week.
gentleman attending was presented
with pair of socks? Was that the
idea?"
That was about the idea possessed
in advance by the gentlemen in ques-
ton, when they We're told that at the
sock-social they would be greeted by q
complete surprise; which they, by
gosh, were. for the sock part of it was
that they We're 'socked' for enough
money to pay for reshngling the roof
of the parsonage. Puck.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
IOWA OPINIONS AND MITES.

The Promghar Bell declares that it's
editor was approached recently by
supporters of Mr. Perkins, who said to
him: 1--WE have the money-Cummins
has none. Can't you see which side it
will pay you to support?"
Between spells of testing seed corn
the farmer should try to find time to
get out and exercise that King road
drag a bit" advises the Sioux City
Journal.
"Of course" admits the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil, sit might be wrong
to endanger the lives of pass holders by
shock in putting the law into immedi-
ate effect"
"The standpat press let go of the
Elkins letter as tho it was red hot
poker" chuckles the Rockwell Phono-
graph.
governor Cummins will have one of
the greatest delights of his life in sign
ing the anti-pass bill,' observes the
Davenport Democrat. "And he is not
averse to having the people of Iowa
know that his responsibility for the
measure does not lie altogether in the
signature"
The Boone Republican says: "Any
effort to prevent a complete delegation
for Cummins from Boone county would
be futile In the extreme"
The Waterloo Courier commends
Representative Temples declaration
that he is not owned by the Burlington
as most timely. "for even his friends
must admit that appearances have
been against him, so much against him
in fact that his denial may not wholly
remove the public's suspicion"
The Iowa City Republican. comment
ing on the publication in The Times
Republican of the episode at Council
Bluffs, when Judge Smith Mcpherson
disgraced the judicial ermine, says
"a correspondent of The Marshalltown
Times-Republican writing from Des
Moines, charges that a prominent man,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
Is Good Politics.

A pretty war of skirts is being fought
out in Il small German town, where
League Against the Trailing Skirt has
been formed with the support of the
mayor who has even gone so far as
to regulate in an edict the length of
the offending garment. 1t is this las
piece of municipal tyranny that has
aroused the long suffering woman of
fashion, and she has found counter
Union of the Liberty of Dress. So far
the League is in the ascendant, for 1t
has just dined the mayor triumphantly
while the union scorns such methods
of bribery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

History again repeats itself in the
philippines. Without particle of
right. excepting might. this big, civil
ized nation of ours takes possession Of
these islands and proceeds to Chris
tianize them by the usual -method
Powder and shot, rum and the Bible
are offered them in the order named.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04

and standpatter got drunk at ban
quet in Council Bluffs 1t is said he
took too much champagne and made
fool of himself This is not the proper
thing to do, but it is not the first time
Iowa men. some of them a good deal
better known than the Council Bluffs
offender, have been drunk, gloriously
drunk. so it is best not to get too gay
i'm making public exposures of such
things"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04

Has Iowa reached the point where
she has only one man who can fill the
guebrnatorial CHAIR" asks the ClarSs-
vile Star. Yes rejoins the Grinnell
Register. Iowa has reached the point
where she don't want to share the gu
bernatorial chair with Blythe or the
things he stands fort is built for just
ONE occupant"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-04

substitute for the brutality of the
strike this may be taken as an evidence
of the higher development of trades
unions.
A new idea in eXpositions, says Pub
lie Opinion, has just been realized in
Berlin, Germany. with the opening of
an exhibit of the products of sweat
shops. Its object is to show the worst
side 70 the city's life and to bring
home to the public mind the fact that
there are thousands of poor women
and children working for starvation
wages under conditions worse than
slavery. The exhibits have been pre-
pared by various charitable societies,
the goods being purchased directly
from the workers. The exhibit should
offer effective argument and result in
a better public sentiment. However as
long as the price is low the purchasing
public is not likely to enquire too
closely into the sweat and blood and
tears that represent the reduction.
The capitol guide was telling two
New England school teachers in the
senate gallery interesting things about
the senators below There are several
of them" he said. that have eaten too
many society dinners and drunk too
much firewater" "Oh. how deardful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-28
DUE TO SUN SPOTS.
Scientists Attribute Earthquake and
Eruption to This Cause.

London Correspondence New York Sun.
Sir Norman Lockyer. Director of Solar
Physics at the South Kenslngton Observ-
atory, agrees with the theory advanced
by Prof. Milne to account for the San
Francisco earthquake-that Is, that it was
caused by the earth failing to swing per-
fectly true on its axis. which is bound up
with the recognized theory regarding sun
spots. Sir Norman says:
More energy is coming to the earth
this year than at any time during the sun
spot period of SO years. AS 1t is conjec-
tured that the topping over. so TO speak
of the earth is caused by the formation
of a great mass of ice of tremendous
weight at one pole or the other through
the great difference in tempera ture caus-
ed by sun spots, the greatest seismic
disturbances during the present year
strengthen the theory advanced by Prof.
Milne.
Further confirmation is also found in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-28

of Pennsylvania. They have eaten my
flesh, said he, and seem resolved now
to pick my bones
He died ON the 18th of April, 1870 The
House of Representatives decreed that
the members should wear mourning for
one month. Mirabeau rose at the opening
the national assembly and said, Franklin
is dead The genius that freed America
and poured flood of light over Europe,
has returned to the bosom of the divinity
The national assembly wore mourning for
three days The city of Paris. the revo-
lutionary clubs. and the academy Of
sciences listened to eulogles of the great
man who had been the first am bassador
from America to France, the first of the
nations of the world to receive such
representative.
IF after a slumber of a century his
eyes had opened, upon what a world would
their calm gaze have rested! The vast
images that he saw in glmmering dawn
have become the commonplace of school,
boys; his daring prophecies In philosophy
and politics have been more than fulfilled
He would have beheld two great and
proud nations. justifying his unchanging
faith In popular instincts and institutions
celebrating in eomradeship the words he
spoke and the deeds he did, and holding
in grateful and perpetual memory his life
long labors and sacrifesi'