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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
WHAT DOES 1T mEANp

\ Tennessee Is practically dry.
Georgia and Texas are prohibition"
Kentucky, the center of the whisky
trade, has centered the saloons, and
the general liquor traffic in a few
places where the money in the bust
ness has still power to control to
considerable degree. In other states
and notably in Iowa, repression and
more stringent restriction Of the liquor
trade are in the hearts and on the
mouths Of men. What does it mean?
Prohibition in Iowa? Not yet, perhaps
not in q lifetime, but it means en-
lightenment and reason applied to so
cial and economic conditions; by the
average citizen and the RELOCATION Of
the saloon to the category OF unreal
sonable and injurious things Of which
communities desire to rid themselves
which are to be endured, not culti-
waited. Among other things it means
that the merchant who once believed
in saloons as trade getters now UNDER
stands that they divert cash from his
till and instead of increasing trade
suppress it. He is beginning to realize
that the money sent to brewers, goes
away to stay with quite as small
chance of returning as that sent to
catalog houses. He looks asllance at
the huge volume of currency that
flows thru the saloons cash register
and wonders how many articles OF
legitimate trade it represents.
1t means that the average citizen is
sick of the saloon as a center from,
which a certain class of politicians get
orders. He is sick of campaign funds
offered to this man and that as pur-
chase price. He Is tired of electing
men to office who Immediately begin
to bestow favors on the liquor traf-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

JUST A WORD PERSONAL.
(Senator Funk in Spirit Lake Beacon.)
1t would be most unfortunate in a
personal sense If editors Of either fac
ton should succeed in making this
man Funk feel sorry for himself be-
cause Of passing events political. If he
knows himself, and sometimes he
thinks he does, this is not likely to oc-
cur. If he has been dubbed away
from the governorship it was when he
was not looking and he has not yet
found it out. If any man has been
setting political snares for his feet he
is happily in ignorance of the fact. II
he has any crouch to nurse the matter
has escaped his attention. If he is
carrying about his devoted person any
sort of concealed weapons with view
to abbreviating the political career OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

paired and that 1t would be crime
Ito retire him from public service two
years hence. Assuming for the sake Of
argument that such statements are
founded on fact. the adherents of the
senior senator should endeavor to ele-
vate him to the presidency. He was an
active candidate in 1896; why is hetnot
available now? We await an answer
from those who contend that Senator
Alison's age does not disqualify him
for another term in the senate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

ger or Johnson or Perkins or Waite or
Dolliver or Allison or kretchmeyer? At
what rate per annum would their ac-
lions have passed q tWo-cent fare, an
anu-pass, or II primary election law?
How many thousand years would 1t
have taken them?
Who made the record? Who made 1t
possible? The names of Larrabee
Funk. Garst, Healy Norris, Haugen,
Chassell, Wood Weaver, Orchard.
Smith, Eaton. Clark, Remley, Lane,
Prouty, Byers, Longley. Haywood,
Maytag. Warren and scores Of 9TH
ers suggest themselves. They all
helped and We're in a large measure
essential, but the man who bore the
brunt Of the battle from the begin
ming was Cummins. Friend and foe
concede this. He has borne every
criticism. SANDER and calumny. The
fire of the enemy has been focused
upon him. He and his followers have
been denominated boilers, tariff rip
pers, boozers, liars, thieves, and ev-
erything under the sun except moral
lepers.
Does anybody suppose that the men
and made the record are going to lie
down now ard desert their works :?
Does anybody suppose that Cummins
will compromise or surrender? Does
anybody suppose that there is man
in Iowa who has fought to make the
record who is so base that he will de-
sert his own work and principles?
Does anyone suppose that the farm
ers and laborers and business men
Of Iowa who have voted for the rec
ord will desert their own offspring
and the men who have made the rec
ord possible? Does anyone suppose
that these farmers and laborers and
business men of Iowa are a set Of in
ingrates?
This paper doesn't believe 1t. The
contest in Iowa will be on the
record. The line or battle even on the
senatorship will turn on the record.
What will the age, temperament.
health, environment and record Of AL
lison do in comparison with Cummins
in carrying out the Iowa record in the
nation? The blind can see this and
answer without seconds hesitation.
The record will count. 1t will be
lullIe Iuo Suu " lily " SILL IiC
scenery to Davenport saloons or Tor
bert letters. The people will not fail to
read the hypocrisy between the linesy
They will not forget that one governor
after another who now belongs to the
standpat faction failed to enforce the
liquor laws They will not fail to I'M
derstand the difficulty of perfact en-
forcement of the liquor laws and place
the trouble where it actually belongs,
with the character and sentiment Of
the people themselves. They will not
forget that the political Indians with
tomahawk and scalping knives who
are the authors of Kretchmeyerism,
the fake contests, tn eHunter regime. the
Johnson letters, the railroad manipula-
ton of officials and legislatures, ETC.,
have forfeited! all rights that ever ex-
listed under Torbert letter, if any
such rights ever existed.
The record will count.
Garst was right when he an
nounced his candidacy on the record.
Here is where the progressives must
stand or fall.
The record will count.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
nv Republican he ought to be searched

any republican he ought to be searched
and exposed.
This man Funk is not candidate
for governor because he believes 1t
best not to be. If he is not In the
political game in a manner to suit the
frenzed hosts of faction 1t may be
charged to the fact that experience OF
the past fifteen months served to cool
his blood and chasten his spirit and
until at least months more Of time
shall elapse it We're better for him to
possess his soul in patience and
serenity. In these blessed Christmas
days he sits by his own fireside in
calm contentment, master Of his own
political conduct and subscribing unre-
servedly to- the sweetest of sentiment
Peace on earth; good will toward
men"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
Topics Of the Times

Kulp then was ony slightly Kulp'
able.
Mrs. Eddy's $1,000 900 bequest seems
to be in the nature of a campaign
fund.
The army having already on hant
Il job of digging the canal a side Is
sue like running the Goldfield mines is
only an incident
Bernard Murphy $ said to be pre-
pairing to come out as Il candidate for
lieutenant governor. Is standpat Ben
ton county as shaliy as that would in
dictate?
Some Of that boarded money broke
out Christmas.
Why all this talk of a six year term
for president and inelegibility to re-
election when a senator's six year
term is simply the prologue to cen
fury of officeholdinp If the incumbent
can so long survive?
Rear Admiral Brownson is no NJ. D..
btu it is evident that he is M-A-D
South Dakota has built $50 miles Of
new railroads, thus adding so much
to the annual car shortage.
st Louis doctor sets sixty crazy
women to shopping as cure, she
read from the paper.
"Spose when they can shop all day
without buying anything he'll regard
them as cured" he commented
Her only rejoinder was look of con-
tempt.--Philadelphi Ledger.
The old log college, which was
built by John Mcmillan on the Fulton
onsburg, Penn. in 1875, was the first
institution of learning west of the AL
leghenies. In this rude building was
founded jefferson College, which aft
erward was moved to Canonsburg. and
in later years was united with WASH
ington College to form the present
Washington and Jefferson College. The
old log building is about to be re-
moved to the campus.
'How did pa act when you asked
him for his hand?"
very gentle and courteous; 1T quite
took me by surprise"
II told him you used to be pug
Post.
A new law exists in Spain that all
cafes and bars where alcoholic liquors
are sold are now to be closed on Sun
days. AS is the case in other countries,
the law has not been satisfactorily en-
forced and many Of these establish
ments have been opened in defiance or
it; but Spain is to have its own Wom-
ans crusade, and striking spectacle
was presented by masses of women OF
the poorer classes, whose husbands
were spending their money there, sur
the doors and refusing to go
till the men had been turned out and
the places closed by the police
when I started in business" said
Mr.. Dustin Stax, refectively. Il re-
solved never to tell an untruth."
"And you kept your word?"
eyes. Whenever 1 had any delicate
business of that sort on hand hired
an expert."-Washingto Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
ALLISON FOR PRESIDENT?
(Odebolt Chronicle.)

If Senator Allison deserves further
honors from the people Of Iowa why is
it that none of his admirers has sug-
gested that he enter the presidential
race? We read in the standpat press
that he is the greatest man in Iowa;
that his health and vigor are unim-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money II it
fails to cure. E. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. Csc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
A Mans
Duty

IS to his family first, then to
his friends.
What obligation requires a
man to give PERSONAL security
for his friends, and thus imperil
his fami1y's welfare
Corporate Bonds, as furnished
by the American Surety Com
pany Of New York, are in
every way superior to Personal
Sureties, and are rapidly ST.
perseding them.
Don't assume an unnecessary
risk because Of a mistaken idea
Of friendship.
When asked to sign a bond, do
your friend a service by putting
him in communication with the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

Progressive republicans don't shelve
such men as Funk points out the
Odebolt Chronicle. "They are glad to
support him when he wants anything;
but at the same time they are not dis
posed to force him to be candidate
against his wishes and interests
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
A. Life Sentences

Of suffering with throat and lung
trouble is quickly committed by DR..
Kings New Discovery. soc and $1.00.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
A Break for Liberty

from stomach. liver and kidney trouble
is made when a Csc box of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills is bought. Mcbride g.
Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
Post Graduate Wisdom.

New York Press)
Knicker-What is the college yell Of
the school Of experience?
Bocker-Silence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

1--WE consider Cunlmins an able man
and would like to see him in the sem
ate, but haven't the heart to oppose
Allison" confesses the Traer Star
Clipper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

"That the gentleman from Carroll
county will be the nominee of his par
ty there is every reason to believe and
that if thus honored he will be trium-
phantly elected and will make Iowa a
business like governor is a fact con-
coded by ALL" observes the Rockwell
City Advocate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

of alcohol, but it's vogue as medicine
under certain circumstances is i'm
mense,' remarks the Waverly indie
pendent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

Remarlling the report from Wash
ington that the senators who rule the
senate are giving Senator LaFollette
the cold shoulder, the Glidden Graphic
says: TN plain language, they are
seeking to belittle him. This is a task
which these eminent gentlemen can
not accomplish. They can belittle
themselves but no one else. And the
more their efforts are directed toward
humiliating La Toilette the larger and
more popular he will become with the
people Roosevelts popularity has
become largely manufactured in the
same way"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

eve have not forgotten when the
Hubbard's, Blythe's, McMillian's and
Ed. Hunter controlled the politics of
the state and organized the general
assemblies of the state,' says the
Scranton Journal Gentlemen this is
the issue: it is not who shall be the
governor, nor who shall be United
States senator. but who shall be the
dominating factors in the state"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

Noting that it is now rumored that
the railroads have decided to keep
their fingers out of Iowa politics in
the coming campaign, the Thornton
Enterprise asserts that eff that proves
true, the opposition to Governor Cum
minis won't have force enough behind
it to make the contest interesting"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-30

'"The day of the big stick is here
and the people will WELD it with I'M
sparing hand should any candidate for
public office fail to come up to the
standard set by Cummins and Roose-
velt And it is right that they should"
declares the Parkersburg Eclipse.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Taking In Carpefs.

Taking up carpets is one of the most
disagreeable of housekeeping tasks
usually, for the simple reason that the
majority of persons do not properly
perform the work,
To prevent the usual cloud Of dust
when removing a carpet, first loosen
the tacks, picking them all up as
drawn, which will prevent accidents
and take only few minutes of time.
Do not move the edge of the carpet
until all the lacks have been removed !;
then begin at one side and roll the car
pet carefully to the other side OF the
room.
Two or three persons can roll it bet
ter than one alone. Lift is carefully at
both ends and the middle at the same
time, and carry it out of doors and
away from the house to be cleaned.
Begin at one side of the room again
and roll the papers with the dust on
them, taking only few at a time, and
being very careful not to disturb the
dust.
Carry the rolls out as they are made
and pile them on the ground where
they can be burned.
When the papers have all been re-
moved there will be no dust on the
floor or in the air, and hopping of
the floor with a clean mop and a good
suds will make it fresh.
If there was no paper under the car
pet the tacks and carpet should be re-
moved in the same manner and a lot of
bits of newspaper well dampened
should be scattered over the dusty
floor. Stir the paper gently about with
the broom so as to gather the dust
then take it up in little piles on the
dustpan.
Scatter another lot of the dampened
paper and sweep it gently together,
gnen mop the floor with good suds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
What a Woman Needs.

Nine. Cresi. the wife of the Mexican
ambassador does not think that any
woman should dress extravagantly
even one who, like herself, has an in
come Of only $5.000,00O a year. She
gives an inventory of some of the
things that woman may find neces-
sary, as, for instance, two hats at 1915
each; fourteen shoes, SIS a pair; three
and fifty silk stockings, at So a pair
two handkerchiefs, two opera cloaks,
two alternate handkerchiefs, three
purses, two embroidered bags for con-
fectionery,; three dresses, at S14 each.
The stockings and the hats one can
comprehend, but where on earth can
Nine. Creel get a dress for S14. let
alone three of them, and how does she
get along with two handkerchiefs and
two alternates?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18

OF all the enique pursuits followed
by women, none perhaps is more out of
line with feminine instincts than SELL
ing brick and building material. Yet
Mrs. Nellie Snyder-S Smith, of Dallas.
Tex, has built up a business which
now runs over 100000 a year. And
she started eight years ago with four
bricks. The four bricks were samples
which her husband had used In the
business his widow took up upon his
death. Last year she sold 9,OOO. 900
common brick and 100000 face brick.
not to mention other building material.
She not only sells more brick than
whole lot of men, but has been told
that she disposes of more than all the
other women in the world put together.
Mrs. Nellie Snyder-Smith is a con-
tribHtor of note to magazines, and
about the last topic she would write of
Is her business Moreover, she is
composer of music Her holiday re-
treat is her fine, big stock farm, forty
miles from Dallas, one of the best in
north Texas.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Girls Reelection of Mothers.

ID.
A daughter is, in nine cases out of
ten, the reflection of her mother. The
training of the girl of 10 is shown in
the woman of 90. A son may, by con-
tact with the rough world, sometimes
outlive his early home Influences
daughter rarely does. The mother who
realizes that the whole strength of her
chi;dren's lives depends upon the foun-
dalton which she builds for them has
mastered the great principle of sue
cessful motherE cd.
1t il a hea.t-sIG!s ening fact that one
Of the greatest evils in home life is the
lack Of cor idence between mothers and
daughters. A mother who has her
daughters confidence need never fear
that she will stray far from the home
teachings. The daughter who has con-
fidence in her mother Will never 90 to
others with her little heartaches and
her burdens.
1t is the mother who is a mother who
makes the home confessional for her
children. Anything said there is never
repeated Her children know and feel
their mother is their best friend, their
safest counselor, and years afterward
when the mother has passed to her re-
ward they will think Of her as all that
mother should be. She was loving,
sympathetic, frank and the companion
o. their own choosing. Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
TUE SP7
~ JTENIrfORE COOPER
"a STORY OF THE REVOLUTION
LII

| contained new terrors, the footman re-
doubled his efforts until he had reached
his goal, when he discharged his musket
toward the surgeon, and was out of sight
in an instant. To gain the highway and
throw himself into his saddle, detained
Lawton but moment, and he rode to tae
side of his comrade just as the figure dis
appeared
Which way has he fedfn cried the
trooper.
Where you cannot follow-into that
wood"
The disappointed trooper, perceiving
that his enemy had escaped him, now
turned his eyes, which were flashing with
anger, upon his comrade, and gradually
his brow relaxed, and his look changed
from its fierce expression to covert laugh
ter. The surgeon sat in dignifed COM
posture on his horse; his thin body erect,
and his head elevated with the indigna-
ton of one conscious OF having been I'm
justly treated.
why did you suffer the villain to es-
capeY demanLed the captain. "Once
within reach of my sabre, End l would
have given you a subject for the dissect-
ing table,"
Twas impossible to prevent it." said
the surgeon. 1.-THE rogue threw himself
on the other side of this fence, and left
me where you see; nor would the man in
the least attend to my remonstrances, OF
! TO an intimation that you wished to hold
discourse with him."
Here was nothing to stop you, man
l could leap platform through, boot
and thigh, without pricking with single
spur. Pshaw / have often charged upon
the bayonets of infantry, over greater
difficulties than this"
You will please to remember, Captain
John Lawton, that I am not the riding
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18

new systemL Nearly every merge mas
been attended by a stock issue, largely
of water, which has been saddled upon
the railroads The masters of finance
were discounting the growth Of the ma
ton and the development of the prop
critics they were consolidating.
Every observant person has been
aware of the fact that since the Span
sh-American war the nations business
has been expanding at a great rate.
The only branch of the country's mech
anism that has not kept pace with this
expansion has been the railroad. 1t has
been the policy of the masters Of
finance to check the building of new
lines. force independent ones into sub
mission and concentrate traffic so that
I would yield the largest possible rev.
euue to the trunk systems which they
controlled. They have succeeded. The
railroads of the United States to-day
are in few hands. But in their hunger
for large profits and early returns
FROM the properties they have absorbed,
the masters of finance have neglected
the physical well being of the railroads.
They have looked more to net earnings
than to improved roadbeds, additional
equipment and better service to the
public They viewed with more favor
the manager who worked men and
cars to the limit all the time and show
ed reduction of operating expenses,
with big increase in gross earnings,
than the one who always sought to inn
prove the property.
When about year ago the tremen-
| dous bulge in the volume of traffic came
suddenly it found the railroads unpre-
pared. The masters of finance had not
added many locomotives and cars to the
possessions of the properties they had
absorbed. Neither had they extended
| the terminals of the various roads to
meet the requirements of constantly
growing traffic Division superintend-
ents, yardmasters, masters of transpor-
tation, train dispatchers, conductors,
| fremen, engineers and brakemen did
all they could. They buckled down to
their work as only well-trained, earnest,
efficient men will do When they were
called upon to work extra hours they
did so willingly. But they could make
no impression on the flood The more
they battled, the more freight seemed
to pour in upon them. Locomotives
capable of drawing thirty loaded cars
were pressed to drag trains of thirty
six or forty. Men who could work
safely and we'll twelve or fourteen
hours a day were kept on duty sixteen
or eighteen. Cars that should go to the
repair shops We're kept in service on
the chance that they would get through
all right
As it was with freight so was it with
passenger traffic. Every passenger car
that could be utilized seemed to be
needed One branch of the service
seemed to keep pace with the other in
growth.
| And now the railroads are in the
throes of the reaction from the strain.
Equipment has given way and men
have given way. Hundreds of persons
have been killed and hundreds more
probably will be slaughtered before
affairs come to normal state. The
dozens and dozens of freight wrecks
with the killing or manning Of rail-
road employees have been too small In
interest to attract general attention. ,