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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
TERMS:
FIGHTING THE PRIMARY.

a few days ago the Times epuph-
can was termed an alarmist because
It predicted that the standpat repuoh-
cans in thu, Iowa legislature We're OPP
posed to any primary election law al
ali. The v,,te in house and senate yes
terday, while not promising ultimate
defeat for the statewide primary
which was made the leading issue IN
both party platforms, demonstrate that
the opposition is fully as strong as the
Times Republican predicted 1t would
be and the effort to kill the bill by
amending it to death has been pc
gun.
The primary bill now before the
Legislature, is a committee bill. 4
Joint: committee from both houses has
labored long and unitedly upon a b Din
which shall provide for direct nomin-
atiods by. the people as dema nded ~
the republican state platform and re-
iterated in the democratic platform y
is as near a compromise measure. as
could possibly be drawn up ana the
standpatter or democrat who goes TO
amending IT to death will be branded
before his people as an enemy TO the ,
state-wiele primary.
These shorts sighted gentlemen Killed
: primary law in the last session by
aid OF the democrats and railway IN
fiuenoe In politics, and they made Cum
Minis governor for a third tenn II
they persist in suicidal opposition to
the primary we will be forced to be-
lieve that they would like to see Cunl-
Minis kept in the governors office in
definitely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
now DO YOU LIKE lr9

We have had q rev Gays q open
springiilke weather anu u'ls lo"a 'na-
has made It's Tea ppeafaiice ing 'aus
Z are heavy me q 9eiepnone = te'li''s
the city consumer sup PPM ~ q oouA-
try producer i' WIN esss' 800. 49,
We are sorry put 1he roans are -
1 such bad shape that we can se' =
Saturday With5yolu1lr q pul 9ees ne nan
who has hogs 70 maui 1iAles - asA i''s
neighb'or Tor heip. sun 1he 'oaus A''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
SUNDAY CLOSING SALOONS.
(Duhun,1a Tale ora ph1

At a meeting on Friday, local sa-
loonkeepers We're unable to agree
among themselves on Sunday closing
and adjourned to meet another day.
Archbishop Keane has narrowed his
demand for saloon regulation to OBJ
servance Of the Sabbath day. He has
eloquence, sincerity, great power, and
an immense following.
There is another element i'm the COM
munity demanding enforcement OF the
mulct law to the very letter A petit
ton with 700 signatures has been pre-
sented the mayor voicing this de-
mand.
When the ape-growers of France
see hail storm impending, they haul
forth their cannon and shoot into the
clouds; cyclones are broken up by the
same method in Kansas. The lonely
wayfarer in the desert throws his pro-
visions to pursuing coyotes and makes
his escape, while they feast upon his
food. All government reflects a COM
promise between two opposing schools
of thought. 1t is a time worn adage
that half loaf Is better than no
bread.
4 A little money will bring into Dur
buque lawyer and an agitator who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
but pays the maximum of two cents

but pays the maximum Of two cents
mile.
This is all very sensible and entirely
proper. There can and will be little
objection to their action, unless from
the special classes whose purse 1t
touches. 1t is reasonable that bum
actor should pay as much for trans
portation as q mother going to a sick
bed, or a workingman seeking en-
ployment
Some reports are of diminished serv-
ice and of threatened retaliation by the
railroads, Of trains abandoned and a
tendency to stick it into" the people
who passed the two cent law. If these
are correct the roads are doing fool
ish thing, and bidding for more drastic
legislation. The sensible way for the
railroads to meet the new law Is to
give 1t a fair trial. The two cent fare
is certain to stimulate travel. and to
limit service for the purpose of dis
gusting the public with the law will
only result in public demand for in
creased powers for state railroad COM
missions and a better and more strin-
gent supervision of the transportation
lines. The two cent fare has come to
stay. The stricter supervision and
regulation is coming. Retaliatory
measures on the part of the railroads
will only hasten 1t and add, to its
strictness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
AMERICAN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Il, All sections of the world bought OF
s ON. boots and shoes and other manu-
& features OF leather in 1905, and neerly
ali sections sent their raw hides and
4 skins in exchange therefor. OF boots
ana shoes alone the United Kingdom
+ took in that year nearly 2 million dol
lars, worth, against but Quarter
million dollars worth a decade ago.
Belgium, France, Germany, the Meth
eriands, and other European countries
also took greater or less values Of boots
Y ana shoes, as we'll as other classes OF
Il leather. Canada took IN million del
lars 6orth in 1906, against one-tairA Ct
& 4 ion in 1895; Mexico LIZ n
n .oos. against 81 thousand dollars
worth ri 1896, while South America
Australia, various sections Of Asia and
oceania, and British Africa We're also
in 1906 customers for boots and shoes
OF American manufacture. n III
IN addition to the "a million dol e e. :
worth al boots and shoes exported In
the year 1906, there was % million doll
lars' worth Of upper leather and tIls
million dollars worth of sole leather.
all intended chiefly for boot and shoe
making, while harness and saddles and
other classes Of leather manufactures
added couple of million dollars to the
total ana were distributed TO all parts
Of the world, TO the United Kingdom
the exports OF upper leather have
grown from 1-3 millions in 1895 to
4 ls 1-s millions in 1906, while of sole
leather the exports to the United King
dom grew only a single million dollars
in that time, having been 5h million
! dollars in 1896, against s1s millions in
q 1905 t{Ss
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
A CRUDE CRAFT ENDED.

(COuncII ,Bluf1S NOupdfeilJ
For a long time the method of cons
putting the compensation of railroads
for carrying the mails has had in 1t .
Joker" 1t is common impression
that the excessive character of the
charges of the railroads for this serv-
ice bears a close relation to the ever
lasting and abominable postal deficit.
1t seemed impossible, however for
congress to warm UP to the subject
until it became a. thing of vogue to
attack the railroads. It was Congress-
man Victor Murdoch Of Kansas, who.
during the recent session, put his
javelin into the mail contract Joker"
with characteristic conlplacency, the
railroads have long been receiving pay
on a basis Of seven days weighing
and six days carrying. That ia, for
the purposes Of weighing the mail, as
is done for space of days uuadren-
nially, to arrive at an average daily
weight as basis for compensation
for the ensuing period, every day in
the week counted, but when 1t came
to dividing the total weight by the
number of days to get the average
daily weight, then the week had but
six days. Thus neat gain was made
in the daily average weight. The
seventh day, or Sunday, weight might
not be as great as that OF week day
but yet considerable, enough, even
when thus spread over the whole Of
the other six days. to be quite worth
while. The actual average daily
weight might be. let us say, for pur.
poses of illustration. 100 pounds, anl
this computation shows it to he III
pounds.
| Just why this coarse method Of rob.
berry was permitted to go on for 81
long will probably not be readily ex-
| planned. To leave Sunday out OF th,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
"a BIG IOWA ROSE GARDEN.

(AIQen Iltnes.D
w. w. Hale made his plans last fall
for mammoth rose garden this spring.
He chose piece of land suitable for
the purpose, enriched 1t in accordance
with the best, ideas for good rose cul-
ture and when In the east last winter
visited many greenhouses to obtain
the latest information in regard to the
rose and its care. He has already
placed his orders, and by June or July
he expects to have rose bed contain
ing fully 500 of the choicest perpetual
blooming roses to be obtained. He has
ordered most of the standard varieties
Of teas, i1ybreds and other varieties of
perpetual blooming sorts, and in addi-
ton to these has made selections from
many of the newest varieties. and so
without any doubt he will have the
most complete collection OF perpetual
blooming roses to- be found in the
whole state. outside of the stocks raised
by nurserymen or professional rose
growers. Along in July or August his
rose garden will be thing Of beauty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
a BREWERY SCHEME.


An attempt is being made to secure
the enactment of law to legalize the
shipping of liquor into parts OF Iowa
where it is unlawful to sell 1t. The
object of this law Is to protect the
wholesale and jobbing liquor dealers
in shipping liquors into the prohibition
districts, where 1t cam be unlawfully
sold by bootleggers and from holes-in-
the wall
This scheme seems to be backed es-
pecially by the breweries. The Wav-
erly brewery is surrounded by prohi-
bttion counties, and the traffic is hand
icapped by the exposure Of its sales
men to prosecution for unlawfully ship
ping it into the prohibited territory
Every member of the legislature who
favors such law should be marked as
a stool pigeon for the liquor interests
and the brand fixed by law-nbiding
people will be made indelible at the
next election at which these liquor
tools are candidates. There is an ex-
listing law to permit the shipment to
druggists for lawful purposes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

between them will close the saloons on
Sunday, at 10 o'clock at night, in eff
feet confscate thousands Of dollars
worth of property, drive two lirds OF
the present saloonkeepers out OF bust
ness, and bring home to clements in
this community realization of the
power of law, of the senselessness OF
standing with folded arms and hostile
mierl in the face of the crushing
deluge.
Are saloonkeepers all SO blind that
they will not see, SO deaf that they
will not hear, so. foolishly secure on
the thinnest of ice as not to know that
the. ice will give way and plunge them
into the water?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
THE SENSIBLE WAY.

In Nebraska the railroads have acted
as a unit in the publishing of cir
cular accepting the new legal rate OF
two cents a mile for passenger fares
but aboiishing all reduced rates to all
men, The minister who heretofore
rode for cent and half must now
pay two cents like a profane stock
drover. theatrical troupes get no reduce
ton over the playgoers excursion rates
do not go" longer. and no one rides
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
M,LAze
Iowa Newspapers
THE RED LINE.


The Des Moines capital is progress
sive Listen to this:
Some years ago. as an advertising
novelty, the Des Moines Capital intro
duced the red line on the first page, be-
ing the first newspaper in the west to
use it, 1t attracted considerable at
tentiorl and it's use was worth all 1t
cost. Beginning with today the red
line will be abandoned, believing that
our readers may be ready to think, as
we do. that the use of it adds nothing
to the good appearance of the paper"
The cause OF conservatism is making
Roadway The poorer the newspaper
the more color, red or yellow. The red
line liz nuisance, offered as substi-
tute for life and news usually a brag-
CART and uniformly in bad company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
General cibes at Boston.
{. (New York SUM-

Everybody of the wicked loves TO
gbe at Boston, not because she is SO
admirably sufficient to hersielf-larger
cities are more largely so-hut because
a small butt determined class of her
citizens has the means and leisure to
have no other business than to mind
that of the rest Of the world. The old
town has admirable qualities that have
not changed Civic patriotism and the
inclination to intelligence ard the habit
of baked beans
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
iuwA OPINIONS AND NOTES

"The only objection to the Iowa fed
eral patronage is that there is not
enough of it, complains the Sioux City
Journal IF there We're only more Of
it the congressman in each district
could sllelve his competitors to his bet
ter satisfaction. AS things are, he is
quite ar likely to make competitors as
to get rid OF them. The situation II In
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

the congressional job has been in
creased SO per cent"
No record can be found in the his
tory of judicial proceedings where
some poor humble citizen got the ben
eft Of the unwritten law" asserts the
Ackley Inter County Journal.
If the marshal law proposed by Mr..
Rankin, or something like it, is not en-
acted, the employment of private de-
tectives and enforcement by the aid of
private subscription will continue to
be necessary says the Sac Sun.
And after ALL" concludes the DEL
vein Register, sit is about as sensible
to blow in coin on an Easter hat as
for the man to let loose of it for cigars
and liquid refreshments
by the way, how would it do to have
all girls pass examinations as to their
culinary ability before entering on the
sea of matrimony?" inquiries the Hum
boldt Republican.
Says the Cedar Rapids Gazette: The
standpat papers would like to have a
county primary law or any other kind
of a primary except statewide law
in which the selection Of candidates
for congressman, state officers, dis
trict officers and United States sena-
tor by popular vote is made mandatory.
limit the scope Of the proposed reform.
With others there is an honest opposi-
tim to the statewide primary. But
we are going to have a statewide
law, and one that, it is believed, will
prove popular with everybody except
the politicians who have been shorn OF
their power"
The Sioux City Journal suggests
1.-THE Galveston plan of selling straw
berries at 10 cents a quart in March
could be depended on to gain consid-
cradle popularity in the north Il the
Legislators could find some scheme for
applying it."
'That bulk sales bill ought to be
killed." declares the Odebolt Chronicle.
1T would place a chattel mortgage on
every retail stock in Iowa"
when anyone says anything about
reciprocal demurrage 1t is UP to you"
says the Ida Grove Pioneer, ito look
wiser than tree full Of boot owls"
"The feeling against the things that
make Mr.. Shaw unpopular in Iowa is
also found In other states, and they
would not support him for president"
argues the Sheldon Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
Topics Of the Times


Man wants but little here below
ana T.-R. want ad. brings 1t. I
sells or buys a secondhand wagon,
stirring plow or a sack OF timothy seet
with the dispatch OF an auctioneer
And it only costs a cent a word.
Harry Thaw may find public forgive
mess for shooting Stanford White. bu
if, as reported, he intends to write Z
book, the electric chair for his.
The question seems to be, where
are. we to find the new congressman t.
fit the new salaries.
The German demand for American
Holsters suggests a method OF working
off rich mems para,toiac sons.
sss
The Cuban cock fighting contingent
represents the stand pat element o.
the island.
II you burn tainted money in q
Widows cook stove the process Of pur.
ification is complete.
Y Is 1t possible that natural connec-
ton between it and the gasoline car
contributed to the decision Of an lowe
newspaper to dispense with the red
line? Or, was it the discord between
red and yellow?
1jle - & !.
Rank retaliation upon their patrons
by the railroads on account OF two
cent fares will bring its logical and
legitimate results, The public Is II
the mood to be angered and il the
railroads are looking for further re.
strictions they make no stronger bic
for reprisal than to cheaper their serv-
ice. The public il convinced that they
can carry all at a 2-cent rate us pro-
fitabiy as they could carry many free
and q majority at 3 cents.
wen all Of us favor the primary bill
Some day. when our dreams come
true,
And Blythe will be trusty and Perkins
be still
4 Some day when our dreams come
true.
The railroads will butt out OF politics
then
The trusts will be busted or sent tc
the pen
And Shaw will live over in Crawford
again
Some day when our dreams come
true.
The canal will be finished, and Harri.
man too,
Some day, when our dreams come
true.
There'll be jobs for progressives and
standpatters, too.
Some day, when our dreams come
true;
Dubuque will close Sundays, siou,
City be clean,
Des Moines will begin to do" some.
thing. ! Ween,
And black will be yellow and red viii
be green
About Twenty-Five Hundred and
Two.
A long time before America wa.
discovered Japan had its banks, clear
ing house, and Europe's supposedly
modern system of checks, drafts, let,
tiers Of credit and notes. The countr,
also had thorough rural delivery pos
tai system before Columbus crossed
the Atlantic.
Frank o. Briggs, who succeeds Johr
F. Dryden junior United States
senator from New Jersey, is an en-
thusiastic athlete, and, altho fifty-si'
years old, still INDUCES in his favor
ite pastimes of boxing and wrestling
Mr.. Briggs is graduate OF Yves
Point, and served five years in thu
regular army He still retains his mil
itary bearing, and on his recent visi
to Washington was frequently mis-
taken for an officer in the army.
William Dean Howells, next to Mari
Twain, is the Oldest living American
writer and IS still working. He ha
just passed his seventeen birthday. HI
said to an interviewer that he doe
not like to be idle and expects to d
better things than he has yet done.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13
STARVING.

When your body is starving robbed
by indigestion--Dr Kings New Life
Pills will relieve and cure. 20 cents.
Mcbride & VIII Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

Iowa, where not senator or represent
tative dared 10 cast a vote against a
two-cent fare bill, passed by this les
islature. 1t helps matters not all 10
mention that these corporations them
selves by their unwise and unjust oper-
ations brought about the present state
OF affairs Because the corporations
went to one extreme, it does not follow
the people must go to another.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

Pile. Cured il 6 to IA Days.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to
cure any case OF Itching, Blind. Bleed
ing or Protruding Piles in to "A days
or money refunded. soc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

No record can be found in the his
tory of judicial proceedings where
some poor humble citizen got the ben
eft Of the unwritten law" asserts the
Ackley Inter County journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

tensified by the fact that the salary OF
the congressional job, has been in
creased SO per cent"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-13

IF the marshal law proposed by Mr..
Rankin, or something like it, is not en-
acted, the employment Of private de-
tectives and enforcement by the aid of
private subscription will continue to
be necessary" says the Sac Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09
Sabbath DeSecratOrs in Jail.

Members Of the Kensington Club, to the
number Of 80, spent Sunday night in Wood
bury jail and paid fine Of S. each imposed
BY Justice Hagenbush, as a pessalty for bois-
ferrous and riotous conduct at thIr boat
house at Westville last Sunday afternoon.
Four women were discharged.
The members of the club were making a
disturbance Sunday afternoon, and the local
officer went over to request more orderly
conduct, but be was repulsed with oaths
and threats.
When Kensington would not take kindly
advise, the riot call was sounded at the fire
house and the firemen Of the twin burgs re-
sponded. prepared for service. When the
KensiDgton Club saw that Westville pos
sessed means Of enforcing the law, they were
like the boy up the apple tree who laughed
at olods Of earth, but had respect for stones.
They would behave then, but they had sin
ned away their day Of grace, and were
marched to Justice Hagenbushe' court, who
imposed a fine Of $6 on each. Two paid and
went their way, while 80 were committed
to Woodbury. jail, being brought down in
three big wagons.
They presented sorry sight Monday
morning as they paced the iron corridor,
anxiously waiting for friends to come and
pay their fines.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09
GOVERNOR Stokes NAMES
Monday. N ay 1sth,as Jamestown Day.

N Oll0ays III ay lStMsdS y ameStOWH Wsey
Goyernor Stokes has issued a proclama-
tion naming Monday, May 18Th, as day
when the public and State schools and col
leges shall observe the Booth anniversary of
the settlement Of Jamestown. In his pro-
elamation he recommends exercises which
shall show the pupils and students an IN
telligent appreciation Of the Importance of
the event, and to intensity their pride and
loye Of country. Monday, the 13th.is named
as il was she date when the first English
settlements was permanently founded, and
which proved to be the beginning Of Re-
public founded upon the inimitable princi-
pies Of justice and right. The Governor
says the children Of to-day are the men
and women Of tomorrow, and that it is
the duty of the teachers Of the State to hold
exercises on that date which will give the
children an intelligent appreciation OF the
historic settling Of the said event, duly inn
press them with It's far reaching Importance
and intensity their pride and love of coun-
try
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09
Other Jersey Happenings.

Three cases Of spinal meningitis in one
family wishin the last few days. one of
which terminated fatally, have been the
source of considerable anxiety to the resi-
dents of Palmyra, and the health authori-
ties are making an investigation.
By tunneling through the beach sand
under the board walk, burglars gained an en-
trance to the iewelry store Of Samuel Bell
Boardwalk and Maryland Avenue, Satur-
day night, and made of with $500 worth Of
jewelry.
AS Simon Camp, about so years old, was
crossing the railroad ahead of moving en-
CINE at Elmer last week, be caught his foot
| in the frog Of a switch. Before he could get
loose the locomotive cut off one foot and SO
mangled the other that amputation will be
necessary. He was hurried to Cooper Hos
pital at Camden. Camp was road supervisor
Of the Borough Of Elmer for several years.
The champion lazy man Of she State has
Ibeen discovered al MillvilIe. When pre-
Esented with load of wood by charitable
Epeople, he gave neighbor one-hali Of the
supply for cutting 1t up. And yet there is
| talk down thereo of putting such a genius as
that in jail for year instead OF encourage
ing him to become high financier. ~
| In the Bergen county courts on May s. a
colored man, aged A years, was sentenced
| to thirty years in State Prison for assault
on white girl II years old, on April %. al
l8.45 o'clock in the evening as she was cross
| ing vacant lot, where she was followed By
the colored man, who caught her and threw
her to she ground. She was choked ani
beaten into insensibility.
Joseph G. Corson, who committed suicide
under train wheelsat Bridgeton on Sunday
was competent engineer at Vineland 10
many years for the Kimball & Prince Lum
Der Company. One day just as she whistl
blew he was noticed to stagger and from tba
time his reason was gone. He was taken i
his home and the next time the whistle hley
/ be grabbed butcher knife and compelle
| his wife TO get down on the floor and pra
for half an hour.
i That farmers must live up to the term
LOT their contracts with canning concerns wa
decided firmly BY Vice Chancellor Leamin
in Camden, Monday. The case under cor
sideration was that Of the Curtice Brother
Company, which has cannery at Wood: