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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

bar steel from Chicago to Fairfield
which paid cents per 100 pounds for
zoe miles to Burlington and, by reason
of the jump in rates at the river, paid
13 cents to Fairfield or S cents more
for only 90 miles additional haul.
To this one company located in Fair
field the freight handicap on the pig
iron 1t used in one year amounted to
S2.23o.S0 for the extra 50-mile haul
into Iowa. as against $1.597 at Bur-
lington for 206-mile haul. This COM
pany was taxed $2,235 on its raw ma
terial for doing business in Iowa when
a fair proportionate charge would have
been 1914 above Burlington. Talk
about ship Subsidies to develop the
shipping interests of the Atlantic
ocean; there is greater need for sub
sides to develop the factory interests
of Iowa or for railroad commission
which will lift this enormous handicap
from off the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
GREED AND RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

Our best posted railroad men admit
that the cause of so many railroad ac-
cidents is primarily due to the attempt
of the officials TO do more business
than their system and equipment justi-
ffes. A veteran conductor tells the
writer that the recent terrible affair on
"The Big Four was caused because
the engineer failed to regard signals
from inability to see them or some
other reason, but that the train dis
patcher had no business to allow the
freight train, with which the passenger
train collided, to be at any time so
close to a fast running passenger
train. That the freight train should
have been sidetracked half an hour be-
fore. That the engineers of all fast
passenger trains are expected ito make
time" and frequently disregard signals
to do it, even with the quasi approval
OF superintendent. That engineers,
conductors and train dispatchers are
"jacked up If they don't "get over the
road" We all know that at the pres
ent time ali of our railroads are over
taxed with business. That not only the
men are overworked. but engines and
cars are used that should be in the re-
pair shop. In a word the greed for
business, makes the railroads under
take more work than they can safely
perform. Solve have the cause OF our
numerous accidents located where
Of all criminal work
comes from. The good Book expressed
it exactly. 1.-The love Of money is the
root OF all evil"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
ENDURANCE OF MODERN MEN.

The war department at Washington
has announced that the United States
has 100000 men available for mill
tary service which prompts demo-
cratic paper in Baltimore to lament
that these men are not what men used
to be In Washington's time. 1T is
highly probable that very large pro-
portion Of the men available for mill
tary service would not be capable Of
standing the fatigue of long marches
and exposure to the elements" says
this critic. THE men of Washing
toms day were far better fitted for the
soldiers life than the average Amer
lean Of the present day. They lived
out Of doors, they We're strong of body
and campaigning had no terrors for
them Uncle Sam has grown fat and
prosperous and physically soft"
Familiarity with civil war records
will not support the complaint. There
Is not a colonel living who does not
remember the superior endurance Of
the men from the cities as compared to
the boys from the farms in many a
regiment. The farmer lads died OF
inconsistencies while the city chaps
feshed up and thrived under the OUT
door life. It is true that rough riders
from the plains or frontiersmen from
the woods will enter campaign bet
ter. able to withstand exposure at the
start but men Of good physique, wheth-
er from Office, factory or farm, soon
become accustomed to outdoor CAM
paigning and can endure exposure.
There is q moral endurance and
capacity for intelligence that is fully
as essential in campaigning as ability
to sleep out in the rain. 1t is likely
that the men Of today, thousand for
thousand, will measure up along with
the armies Of the past. The real deter
crisis which calls men to arms. The
class which enters the army for a
job or answers = call because of TIL
romance of going to war, will never
equal in endurance or effectiveness the
class which will leave established
homes, offices, workshops and BUSH
ness to shoulder arms when their coun-
try is in real danger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

members by a most kindly feeling bor-
dering on to a sense Of obligation. Po-
litically Governor Cummins' social in
vestments have brought good returns.
He has performed high grade lobby
work and is entering upon new ca
reer in the same line. If lobbying 10
to be prohibited by law, it must neces-
sarily cover and include receptions,
dinners and other social attentions Civ
en- to members of the legislature for
the purpose of building up a political
pull.
The man who yells the loudest about
the lobbyist is usually man who fears
that his own particular domain will be
encroached upon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
MELBoURNE.

January 24.-Mrs. n. Cavell and son
Maurice, spent Tuesday in Marshall
town.
Fred Click Of Marshalltown, is spend
ing few days in town.
Mrs. Joe Retz and son, Lawrence,
spent Thursday and Friday with friends
in Marshalltown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Schooler Of Ma
drid, arrived Monday to spend few
days with Walter Canday and family.
Mrs. G. p. Lingham and aunt, Mrs.
Gustafson, Of Panama, spent Monday
in Marshalltown.
Lillian Retz entertained thirty Of
her friends at a party Thursday night
in honor OF the 1Stht anniversary Of
her birth.
Jake Waltemeyer, Of Marshalltown,
spent Monday here with friends.
Ezra Wallace and wife spent Tues
day with relatives In Marshalltown.
Mrs. Koontz, Of the county farm, has
been spending few days with Mrs..
B. w. Rowland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
WHAT is THE MATTER WITH IOWA.

1t has been only few days since
the Times Republican referred to the
fact that the present basis of inter-
state freight rates is preventing the
growth of factories in this state. AL
ready the article has excited a reply
from man Of very large business af-
fairs Mr.. F. G. Let's, living in Chi
cago. where he supervises the manage
ment Of syndicate Of wholesale gro
very houses in Iowa, Missouri and Min
nesota, and another syndicate of
houses in Michigan, writes endorsing
every word the T.-R. has said.
Mr.. Let's has witnessed the remark
able growth Of cities and towns in his
locality during the past ten years while
the state Of Iowa has actually lost pop
ulation. He understands business con-
ditions well enough to see that the
period of growth in agricultural pur-
suits has reached its limit. The farms
are about all occupied and all that can
grow henceforth is the quality of the
livestock, percentage of yield and the
wealth OF the owner. Rising genera
tions which must start with nothing
and acquire riches must seek factory
enterprises or move out of Iowa and
Mr.. Let's has just been up against
the discrimination Of freight rates ON
interstate shipments which keeps fac
tories out Of Iowa.
The trouble is that rates break at the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, leav-
ing Iowa on a higher plane than COM
petitive states. Governor cummi,s
called the legislatures attention to this
in his message citing shipment Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

closing the liquor bars Of Boston at IL
o'clock instead of IL midnight. A COM
mittee of lawyers, grammarians, print
ers and proof readers might be a de-
sirable addition to the present legisla-
tive committees for the sole purpose of
carefully studying the phraseology Of
every bill before final enactment. Nor
would the committees duties end there.
1t would be necessary to sit up with
the engrossing clerks; and it might be
expedient to follow the manuscript to
the printing office and draw a gun on
the printer and the proof reader
There is one other remedy that will
save all this tortuous labor-don't pass
the bill
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

IOr INDUSTRIAL purposes. WHO says tneIe
is not a field for industrial alcohol ir
the United Statese
The Minnesota legislature has adopt
ed a resolution asking congress to
abolish the tariff on lumber. This
schedule was originally instituted &c
protect the lumber states, you know
Now will Lafe drive Minnesota out OF
the republican party?
What made Scribbler's book take
the public favor at a bound? It's go
ing into the hundred thousands
Its all owing to a mistake of a
printer"
How was that?"
1.-THE reviewer said the book was
immortal and the printed omitted the
't.'"-Lppincott.
If the legislature should enact a law
requiring publication of candidates
campaign expenses what would become
of that complaint that statewide
primary law would make office holding
a rich mans luxury?
A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota legislature requiring private
banks to incorporate and come under
state supervision Will the Iowa legis-
lature develop a member with as much
sense:
A column and half OF sarcasm as
roast for Cummins over Delivers
election and another column whining
because the legislature has reelected
Chassel and English as state binder
and printer constitutes the circulation
building editorial page of the Sioux
City Journal
More than half Of the twelve apostles
are admittedly defying the law and the
government, in that they are openly
living in polygamous relations. New
polygamous marriages are continually
being celebrated in the Mormon
III.
openly as in the days before the man
ifesto, and a different character of men
are now entering into the polygamous
relations. Formerly the poor and ig-
norant took plural wives, the same as
those better off and OF a higher order
of intelligence. Now, young men OF
ability are selected to enter into these
relations The brainy young men Of
the church are tied irrevocably to the
church and made subservient to II
thru the polygamous relation. When
ever they contract polygamous mar
riage they are without the pale of the
law, and their only hope for protection
is thru this powerful church organiza-
tion-Senator Dubois, of Idaho, in
Golfers Weekly.
Every week there is issued from the
presses of the New York World sec
ton of the Sunday paper known as
the Sunday World Magazine. This pub
LEGATION is today in the lead of all
others in the world, so far as mechan1-
cal production is concerned. The make
up of the pages, the pictorial excel
lence and novelty, and the distribution
Of color turnout put 1t in the class
of wonder works. Twenty years ago
such collection Of pages would have
set the country agog. Even ten years
ago such thing would have been
impossible.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
INSURANCE PROTECTS STOCKHOLDERS.

The failure Of the First National
Bank at Grinnell two years ago was,
perhaps as disastrous bank failure
az has been known in many years, yet
the depositors will soon have received
in dividends from the wreck almost all
Of their money back. The great loss
has fallen on the stock holders, WHO
lost not only what they had invested
in the bank but an extra assessment
besides. which left some of them pen
niless,
The lesson to be learned from this
experience is that insurance of bank
deposits is Of no less value to the
stockholders of a bank than it is to
the depositors. All schemes for such
insurance have proposed assessing the
premiums to the banks to be paid out
Of bank earnings and some have OBJ
jected upon the ground that the man
who deposits money in bank should
take out and carry his own insurance.
The stockholders at Grinnell now wish
thousand times that insurance
against bank failures had been known
in their time. Such insurance might
not have saved them from double a,sS
sessment in the event of loss, as it
would seem that the present effort to
insure depositors at the expense Of
stockholders in this manner is jnstt-
fable, but the exceptional watchfulness
OF an insurance company might have
prevented the loss from occurring.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

is having an experience Of that kind
just now that costs money. A state
statute requires wardens to supply
prisoners with beds, bed clothing, and
so forth" AS printed the law reads
beds, bed, clothing" etc. It will be
an inducement to some men to seek
confinement in Cleveland Jail. In
another instance, an inadvertent semi
colon worked an unintended reform,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
CUMMINs A LOBBYIST.

Since Albert B. Cummins has been
governor he has been materially helped
by the social attentions given by him.
self and wife to the members Of the
legislature. Some of the members
would see very little Of the social life
OF Des Moines except for the atten-
tons given to them by Governor Cum
minis and his most attractive and
charming wife. These social debts are
generally repaid on the part of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
Topics Of the Times

II any interruption occurs in the de-
livery of Roosevelt's daily message to
congress damn the carrier boy.
Georgia's legislature is discussing the
demand of the state travelling mems
association for interchangeable mileage
books. The interchangeable coin of the
realm will be mileage book enough for
Iowa If the rate is made the same.
Maryland is to build a state tuber-
culosis sanitarium and has just em-
ployed a superintendent from Rhode
Island at a salary Of $4,000 per year.
congressman are worth $1,000 more
than their present salary of $4,000,
however.
Des Moines is proud of citizen
who proposes a bill to the legislature
providing for state regulation Of baby
farms. Let Des Moines go to the root
Of the evil and provide swift justice
for the betrayer of Irene Blydenburgh,
the kind who patronize maternity
homes.
"Can we have harmony?' is the text
Of an editorial in the Cedar Rapids
Republican which gives excuse for re-
printing an article from the Des
Moines Capital the jist of which is
contained in. these words. "Dolliver
won a denomination because he had
more votes than the perpetual candi-
date" The conclusion would follow
that the question as to the possibility
OF harmony would depend upon how
hard we are willing to fight for it.
Il II "
Without reference to the need of re-
ciprocity treaties which will extend the
sale of American meats in Belgium it
can be stated as fact that the con-
sumption CT horse meat is increasing
among the inhabitants of several Eli
ropean. countries In Belgium, as in
other countries on the continent, the
sale of horsefiesh is rapidly becoming
recognized branch of the butchering
business. Many shops in Liege sell
horse meat exclusively. The American
consul there states that those accus-
toned to this food are loud in its
praise and declare it to be as palatable
as beef. Many persons eat horse flesh
under the impression that it is beef.
1t sells for one-half the price of beef
or mutton, which is one Of the ex-
plantations of Its growing popularity.
1t appears that in Denmark horse meat
has been used as food for century
and the Belgiums have been addicted to
it for nearly forty years.
A dispatch from New York states
that President Roosevelt is enthusiastic
over the good results obtained by
schoolboys with the target machines
which the Public Schools Athletic
league has installed in the ten largest
high schools in New York. The pres
ident who is honorary vice president Of
the athletic league, told Gen. Wingate,
president Oft the league, that he regard
ed the movement to make the school
boys good shots as one of national inn
portance, and that he would be glad to
do anything in his power to help it
along.
The production of. alcohol in France
during the year 1906 is estimated al.
70,292,917 gallons. OF this quantity 81
per cent was denatured alcohol used
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
FLAWS IN BILLS.
(Burlington HaWkeye y

At nearly every session of the Iowa
legislature, and the sessions of other
state legislatures, there is put upon
the statute books acts that are defec-
tive in language. or punctuation, or
both, resulting in litigation, and some-
times defeating the purpose of the
measure. The city of Cleveland, Ohio,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
MR.. BLYTHE's FEELINGS HURT.

burlington Hawk-Eye)
Tt is to be hoped he has been incor-
Irectly reported in the language he is
said to have used in his speech to the
republican legislative caucus last night
in which, referring to the present meth
cd of electing United States senator's,
he is quoted:
"The fathers had the idea that the
people elected the legislatures and leg
islatures elected the senators. They did
not look forward to the time when in
certain sections legislatures might be-
come the creatures of certain interests
or, as in Colorado today, be financed
by a millionaire and have no other
purpose than to do his bidding
Mr.. Dolliver took occasion to ex-
empt Iowa from this list of degener-
ates, but when the next congress as
sembles, the newly-elected republican
senator from Iowa and the newly elect
ed republican senator from Colorado
will be among the number who will
stand before the bar of the senate to
be sworn in. Upon that suspicious oc-
casion when Senator Dolliver of Iowa,
turns to Senator Guggenheim Of Col
orado, to exchange congratulations,
what will the Hawkeye state senator
say to the millionaire senator from the
Centennial state? There is a wealth
of oratory that sometimes becomes
embarrassing: and especially If SEN
ator is called upon by colleague to
prove up his allegations.
The new Colorado senator is reputed
to be wealthy, but it yet remains to be
charged that he bought his way to the
senate Of the United States. At all
events, republican fluctuations are en-
HANGED by freedom from untoward in
timations regarding a fellow member
of the same political faith.
The Hawk-Eye declines to believe
Senator Dolliver said what is attributed
to him by the press reports, OF KAN
sas. and Of Iowa.
SUGAR BEETS PAY AT wAvERLY
(Waverly INDEPENDENT
Waverly beet growers have this
week received the last payment in full
FLOR the 1906 crop. The majority are
quite well satisfied. The farmers who
raised from two to ten acres each came
out much better than the town people
who hired at very big wages all the
help who did the work. The companies
Of business men who raised from ten
to sixty acres Of beets paid double for
wedding, thinning and hoeing, what
such labor usually demands But we
are not feeling very bad over that, be-
cause these wages were paid to the
boys and girls Of Waverly. who are still
ours. That is to say, the boys and girls
who received the wages last summer
are ours still, and we are just as rich,
or richer, than we were before we paid
the big wages. See! We are still glad
we made the effort a year ago to get
the acreage for sugar beets. The first
sugar factory in Iowa is building in
Waveriy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
Fatalities Prevented.

After an accident, use Bucklen's Ar.
MICA Salve. 1t prevents fatal results.
Heals cuts, burns, sores. Is cents. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
Why,Run
the Hazard

ofaeeep&ing personal security upon
bond. when corporate security is
vastly SUPERIOR
The personal surety may be Anan.
cialy strong to-day and insolvent
tomorrow; o. he may die. and his
estate be immediately distributed.
In any event. recovery is dilatory
and uncertain.
Because Of its greater stability. the
United States Government prefers
Corporate Suretyship. Follow it,
example,. and. when you require
suretyship Of any kind. insist upon
having the bond Of the largest com.
pany in the world whose business
is restricted to Furnishing surety.
ship obligations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25
luwA OPINIONS AND NOTES

The Ames Intelligencer thinks that
"The Times Republican is fortunate In
being able to retain Ora Williams as
it's leading staff CORES pondent. Iowa
has never had a more conscientious
writer of facts, and results always
show the accuracy of his statements"
Fears in Cedar Rapids are THUS ex-
pressed by the Republican,: Des
Moines does things to the legislature
at least It has received the promise
of a $65,00O home for the governors, a
100000 building for the state board of
control and the adjutant general, and
it will ask another 100000 for the
state fair, while the historical building,
modestly, rests content with another
$4,000. Was that boosters movement
started to operate on the legislature.
and thru the legislature on the state
treasury?
"w. M. Law, of Waterloo, will hard
sly succeed in his candidacy for U. s..
marshal against Ed. Knott" predicts
the Dubuque Telegraph Herald. "Mr.
Laws presumption in seeking federal
office deserves sound rebuke. Mr..
Knott has had the office only twelve
years, netting him approximately a
paltry $4,000, and in these days of
high cost of living no rational man
would ask to have him turned out be-
fore he has had a chance to earn
100000.
Mr.. Chasselps friend Perkins says in
the Sioux City Journal: "The last leg
islature should not have elected print
err and binder, but it should have ex-
tended the terms of the men in office
and left the election to the general as
sembly now In session, meeting, as the
constitution provides, on the second
Monday of January. Obviously that is
what should have been done"
Subsidies may be all right, but we
will have to be shown here in this
state" says the Boone News-Republi-
can.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says: "Our
city marshal has published notice
forbidding any coasting to be done on
streets occupied by street railways.
This is as it should be. It is better
to prevent accidents than to endure
them"
The Independent at waverly thinks
there is some political significance in
the fact that "Congressman Dan Ham
ilton, Major Lacey's successor, is the
father of five boys and five girls"
ut is our present system of crimi-
nal practice and not capital punish
ment that has outlived it's usefulness"
says the Dubuque Times. mo crinli-
nal whose guilt has once been proven
to the satisfaction of the twelve men
in the jury box is entitled to a second
trial by jury
The medicine that sets the whole world
thinking,
The remedy on which all doctors
agree,
The prescription all your friends are
taking, is
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

The medicine that sets the whole world
thinking,
The remedy on which all doctors
agree,
The prescription all your friends are
taking, is
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

ut is our present system of crimi-
nal practice and not capital punish
ment that has outlived it's usefulness"
says the Dubuque Times. mo crimi-
nal whose guilt has once been proven
to the satisfaction of the twelve men
in the jury box is entitled to second
trial by jury"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

The Independent at waverly thinks
there is some political significance in
the fact that congressman Dan Ham
ilton, Major Lacey's successor, is the
father of five boys and five girls"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

President Western Grocer c.
Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. %, 1907.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

The Ames Intelligencer thinks that
"The mes-Republican is fortunate in
being able to retain Ora Williams as
it's leading staff correspondent. Iowa
has never had more conscientious
writer of facts, and results always
show the accuracy Of his statements"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-25

The Cedar Falls Gazette says: "our
city marshal has published notice
forbidding any coasting to be done on
streets occupied by street railways.
This is as it should be. It is better
to prevent accidents than to endure
them"