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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
"THE MILLS OF THE GODS"

The statement is made that there
are now suits instituted against the
Standard Oil Company in thirty-four
states. We are also told that John -.
Rockefeller has for number of years
past left the active management of this
great monopoly entirely to Henry K
Rogers And within the past month
from reliable sources, We learn that
Mr.. Rogers is thru with his life work,
this necessary because Of stroke OF
paralysis, which affects mind and body
The magazine writer's have always en-
phasized the point that neither the son
of Rockefeller nor the son of Rogers
can take up and successfully carry on
the immense business built up by the
fathers. And so, it is perhaps not too
optimistic to hope that the end of the
monopoly of the Standard Oil Company
is In sight.
It will not cease to exist, it will not
go into bankruptcy, but inside of five
years, no one man, no twelve directors
of the Standard Oil Company, will be
able to lower the price of oil to bank
the output of the country. John d.
Rockefeller's son will not be able to
raise the price Of oil to recoup legal
loss. Henry K. Rogers son will not be
able to dover the price Of oil to bank
rupt competitor. The Standard Oil
Company will not get any rebates from
the railroads five years from today.
In other words the Standard Oil Com
pany will have to meet real competi-
ton as do other business enterprises.
The wonder is it has taken the Amer
lean people so long to assert them
selves.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW;

Hardin county some years ago
found it necessary to use lynch law
The celebrated Rainsbarger cases and
the action of the mob at that time are
still fresh memories with many. Not
to discuss in anyway the cause of such
work at that tine Oh the part of the
best citizens Of that community, 1t
can be safely asserted that like the
work of the vigilance committees of
California in early days, it resulted in
complete reform of existing condi-
tions. Only a few years ago a Rever-
end Blydenbura was arrested in Edo
ia, convicted OF, wife murder and sent
to the penitentiary. Recently as a re-.
suit of the supreme courts decisions,
Mr.. Blydenburss was granted new
trial, and so weak was the case of the
prosecution that the presiding judge
took the case from the jury and or
dered an acquiatal. These three cases
occurring in ore town, say within a
period Of thirty years, when mob,
judges, jurymen, attorneys and wit
nesses nearly all are alive today, fur
well as moralists and critics. The writ
err will assume the latter role and refer
only to the Blydenburg case.
First and foremost let us look at his
conviction. Nc, one not prejudiced by
sympathy or hatred can read Judge
Evans reasons for taking this case
from the jury and ordering an ac-
uuittal. without coming to the conclu-
sion that the first trial which resulted
in Blydenburg's conviction was the
verdict of people, the trial was car
ried on in a perfectly legal form, ex-
cited. and ready to punish on circum
stantial evidence of much less weight
than resulted in the Rainsbargers
death. Fortunate was it that the jury
did not sentence him to be hung. That
Blydenburg's personality. his title, his
sanctimonious ways, his DR.. Fell in
dividuality, Il do not love thee DIR.
Fell, the reason why | cannot tell
his unfortunate experience in the
death Of two wives previously, his Sc
curing some OF his Wife's property be-
fore her death, and the possibility of
half of the remainder in the event of
her death, all these things did have a
the first trial, is now easily seen by
many who at the time. sympathized
with the first jury's verdict. 1t was
a Scotch verdict, Guilty but not prov
en-" In this case however, the ac-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
Springfield UII.) journal.
F.LUTING RICHARDS.
(Mason city Times Herald.)

t.hdSOi WY ISieiiN't
Julian Richards has taken up his
work as press agent of the Allison
campaign. He is out with his initial
forecast in the senatorial contest at
hand, and it is fully as reliable as
those he sent out when at Des
Moines last fall with Geo. Gallarno as
the press representative of the demo-
cratic state committee. Then 1t was
said that Porter would carry half the
counties in northern Iowa = now
Julian finds that "the territory north
of the Northwestern railroad in Iowa
is strongly pro-Allison. so much so In
fact that without going into detail
the governor has practically no
chance in this section against Sena-
tor Allison" Richards and those
who take him seriously know very
little of the sentiment that exists in
northern Iowa. His predictions now
are fully as reliable as those he made
in the Clmmins Perkins contest and
afterwards In the Cummins-Porter
campaign The facts are no ten
counties in all the territory named
will give Allison a majority.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02

ship to recall him to the council cham
Der while younger men step forward
to bear the heat and burden of the
fray.
The history of Greece is a long story
of struggle. To their nestors they gave
the earned need of the truest respect
But a cursory glance will show that
they never sent them atield. The man
of fifty with a father in the family
went not forth to war. The Greek mes
tors staid at home and Were sought
and respected for their advice and
counsel. They were guarded from la
Dor and peril as priceless mines of
human experience whence the young
and active in charge of affairs might
delve the knowledge that comes of ex
perience. Imagine Greek nestor at
eighty campaigning for office and
pleading from the stump.
Which is the truer nestorship, Alli
sons or Larrabee's?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
Topics Of the Times

With corn at the present price and
prospect the feeder who is chary of
dipping in deep seems considerate
and conservative. But what is the
prospect for beef prices?
Mr.. Carnegie should endow library
for the books of trusts and their sub
sidiary concerns. They seem to BE-
peculiarly valuable as reference books
The Waterloo Reporter processes to
misunderstood Governor CumminS
statement. Were that paper to change
consciences with sheep killing dog
the quadruped would get all the worst
of it,
Editors Cyrenus Cole and Bernard
Murphy having decided to hold joint
Riggs, the Anamosa Eureka suggests
that the invitation be extended to Ed
itor Moore of the Anamosa Journal
Marion Register.
But Editor Moore is a democrat.
Why suggest him to take the places
of NIessrs. Cole and Murphy? Is the
suggestion corroborative of the NUNS
terburg theory?
Tight times are coming, says an eN-
change. Does this refer to banks or
cider mills?
Why not a state examination and Ger
tificate for railway telegraphers? They
take almost as many lives in their
hands as do the physicians.
81 suppose it's always hog killing
time in your town. Miss Packer
sneered the New Yorker
ooh, yes replied the fair visitor
from Chicago, "but don't let that keep
you from visiting us. We always pro-
tect our guests. '-Philadelphia Press.
Now Secretary Shaw says a re-
porter lied on him. If SO he can bal
ance against the many times that the
kept STILL But the chances are
the reporter didn't lie.
After all, would not the Methodists
of Columbus have paid a prominent
citizen and churchman dest s'@fd
if they had chosen Fair
banks one of the lay delegates to the
general conference? Cedar Rapids
Gazette
And again, after all. what is wrong
or deserving of criticism in what they
did do when they sent the delegate of
their choice?
The pure food law is blamed in part
as cause for high cost of living. X
works extensively in two directions
raises the prices of necessities and
products us to live longer.
Husked your seed corn? Count the
last hills and stalks thru poor
strand this fall and figure out whether
good seed pays.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02

Bryan will have himself nominated
next year, and pick out runner on
the head of the ticket.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
TWO nEsToRsHIps.

wv StOhSsS "
The Sioux City Journal is impatient,
apparently, over the manifest intention
of progressive papers of the more
widely circulated class to treat Sen
ator Allison with the courtesy due his
long service, and his age. There is
seemingly evident in the Journals ex-
preston some disappointment due to
the refusal of progressive newspapers
to return volley for volley Of mud
The Journal recalls that Governor
Cummins once referred to Allison as
the ''beloved Nestor of republicanism,"
as perhaps he has done many times,
and calls upon all the dictionaries to
bear witness than Nestor means the
company, interpolating into the defini-
ton presumably as a saving clause, an
added definition of oldest and wisest"
as referring to experience. Then in a
tone Of finality that would do credit
to student beginning the study of
logic, it asks triumphantly and con-
clusively what beloved Nestor means
if it doesn't mean theoretically that
Allison ought to be reelected. There
now! Cummins said it, He called
him Nestor! You can't get around
that!
Nestor: "a councillor; an adviser"
Not servant with duties that must
be performed with heavy burdens that
Not one to be sent to the forefront of
battles Not one to be put forward
to die in harness under the strain of
an overload. But an old, wise and
cautious man among a company more
vigorous and fit for action. A coun-
cillor to sit at such ease as the aged
may find, to be sought by the men of
action for the wisdom of his advice.
Not necessarily an office holder and
distributor Of patronage. Not a col
lector at the gates of custom, but a
citizen greater than any office holder.
A nestorship need not include holding
office In the later acceptance of the
term and under the present more or
less justified attitude of the public
toward office holders, office seeking
and complete nestorship scarcely
amalgamate.
If there are men in Iowa who
can lay positive claim to nestor-
ship as in its best and highest sense,
William Larrabee is one of these.
Larrabee has fought his fight for the
things he believed. He has been one
Of the most useful public men the state
Of Iowa has ever known. His home
today is one place whence the people
of Iowa look for an absolute expression
Of opinion based on what "the oldest
and wisest man in a company" be-
lieves best for all the people. He seeks
nothing for himself His advice and
counsel are not clouded by postoffices,
attorneyships and the list Of appoint
ments that make up the purchase price
of political support that we call pat
ronage" He holds no brief for any
interest. Larrabee's Is a true nestor-
ship.
1t is not an assault on Senator ALL
son to seek to place him on the same
plane as the great and sincere man
who sits at Clermont, all that a nestor
implies, wise councillor, an adviser,
the Oldest and wisest man in COM
pany." 1t is not an assault on the SEN
ator to point out that the senate in
the coming years is to be battle
ground where vigorous men must meet
the strong and predatory. 1t is only
plain common sense and good general
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
cused was sentenced and suffered
some three years of imprisonment.

cused was sentenced and suffered
some three years of imprisonment.
Again, let us look at the condition of
the public mind at the time when the
supreme court granted him new trial.
While in the penitentiary his daugh-
ter, young woman that all knew ana
admired was seduced by married
man and died q victim to the work OF
the abortionist. His other children.
without home or parents to train and
guide them. were also occupying the
attention of the public. A cool dis
passionate supreme court had given
the public many weighty reasons for
granting new trial. The expert"
testimony of the first trial, now from
written evidence of the expert, was
shown to be worthless. This and more
was discussed and talked over in every
home in Hardin county. And now,
even before the case came into court
Blydenburgh was virtually acquitted
Three years before in the same county
before his first trial. he was virtually
convicted Last week if the jury could
have rendered such verdict, the
word guilty would have been omitted,
and mot proven" would have been SO
recorded. In fact Judge Evans adj
dress in taking the case from the jury,
amounts exactly to that In the first
trial sympathy for the dead wife's re-
lativess convicted. In the second trial,
sympathy for Blydenburgh would have
acquitted him If the case had gone to
the jury.
And some Of us who have been quite
free in our comments on the laws
delay. using the Busse case as an OBJ
ject lesson, may we'll stop and reflect
a little. After all, our system of law
procedure is the only safeguard for
the life and liberty of the innocent.
That the same procedure of law, fire.
quently results in turning loose muir
derers and malefactors is only an in
cient. We are all subject to a possible
chain of circumstantial evidence, and
if innocent our only hope is in a legal
trial that recognizes circmnstantial as
of much less weight than direct. Bly,
denburgh's acquittal is q victory for
the legal profession in this. Our pres
ent system. faulty as it is, is necessary
lOI lIlt Ollt lIlIotSIit HAL W ESCAPE
punishment, even if ninety-nine guilty
men escape punishment by exactly the
same process of trial But Blyden-
burgh's acquittal is also heavy rehec-
ton on all concerned in the first trial.
If his acquittal is right and just. there
is no getting away from the logic that
his first trial and conviction was
wrong and unjust. That the citizens
of Hardin county are no different from
the citizens of any other county goes
without saying. That the citizens of
some other county are more than likely
to repeat such legal action is also
probable. But with this case fresh
in mind does not the old bit of advice
to ego Slow occur to many?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02

BRYAN Will have himself nominated
next wear, and pick out runner on
the head of the ticket"
Reviewing Senator Allison's inter-
view in which he states that ne IS
opposed to party line tariff revision
in a presidential election year, but that
the tariff when revised should be on
n business basis after the country has
settled down from the excitement III
cident to a campaign, the Thornton
Enterprise comments as follows: But
he does not say, except by inference,
that he is actually in favor of revision
even then If he really is, then there
is no difference between him and Gov
ernor Cunmins ON the tariff question,
for that has been the governors plat
form all along.
But when il; is revised leaves a
large sized hole for the senator to
slip thru"
Iowa is all right ayers the Early
News. You can always look for
seed time and IL harvest without fear
of disappointment. If YOU don't have
bumper crop You have bumper
prices. and sometimes the two bump
chs come together. SO there you are
The Anamosa Journal thinks ut
would be an excellent thing if towns
the size OF Anamosa could elect coun-
cilmen by the entire city. All would
then be interested in all parts of the
city instead of the narrow confines of
their own ward 6"
The Cedar Rapids Republican keeps
on insisting "our position is clear and
it is Conscientious. This paper does
not belong to the standpat faction. nor
does il aspire to membership in the
other faction-it wants to stand for
itself even if 1t has to stand by it
self 1t is republican in principles
but it sees almost more to admire in
the democracy Of Iowa than it does
i'll the factonalism of the republican
party"
No matter how many millions you
have accumulated. there are no peck
cts in shroud" says the Des Moines
Tribune. The grave is not recep-
tacle of gold. 1t revels only in dust
and bones and worms What would
YOU prefer to leave behind as q lega-
cy? Wealth to curse your posteritv.
or a memory that shall smell sweet
and blossom in the DUST? Blocks of
brick and stone and mortar or tender
recolections of a gentle heart and a
liberal hand and lips that whispered
love and hope?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
WHAT CUMMINS IS.
TDes Moines News.)

''There are number of Iowa people
who have considerable to learn about
Governor Cummins." said friend OF
the governor yesterday. "Cummins is
one of the deepest students that the
state has produced. He has the finest
library in Des Moines. and one of the
best in the country. There is no
higher authority on Iowa law, and
no man better versed in the worlds
history. past and current. Few peo-
pie understand or appreciate his ca
pacity for work. He has sprung into
prominence by his interchangeable eff
forts. File is equal to almost any
emergency He is resolute and firm.
and in carrying out his aims will
recognize no obstacle"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02

Talk about the days of one man
domination passing 1t is not So" as
serts the Oelwein Register In the
republican party of the nation Presi-
dent Roosevelt leads the procession
in a very acceptable manner, and will
name the next nominee for the presi
dency. In the democrat party Mr..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-02
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

at isn't the purpose Of the reac-
tionaries to give Taft any more of a
boost than their own necessities may
require" declares the Waterloo Cour-
Ter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-08
CHILDREN'S RECEPTION.

one of the new features OF the
Gentry shows this year is the chill
dren's reception given at the conclusion
of the performance. All the children
are invited to enjoy a ride on the
ponies and elephants, and as all of
them are in charge OF careful attend
ants and perfectly gentle, the little
folks get no end Of enjoyment out of
this portion of the show. The Gentry
shows are better than ever this year
if reports are to be believed. The
tents are thoroughly waterproof, the
seats are of the most comfortable de-
sign and the entire outfit is of the
best material and everything is done
that is possible for the comfort of the
patrons. 1t is doubtful if a more
pleasing and instructive exhibition
could be devised than the one present
ed by Gentry Bros. and their talented
animals. The show will exhibit here
July Is.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-08
PROFESSIONAL MEN
WANT NEW OFFICES
There is a Dearth of Them
in East Chicago Since
Big Fire.
Especial to Lake County Times.)

East Chicago. Ind. July S.-Since
the Todd opera house block burned
last spring there has been such d de-
mand for Office rooms in East Chicago
that many of the professional men of
the city have been seriously inconven-
fenced by having to occupy small and
inadequate quarters.
A prominent business man made the
statement that there was not q single
place in East Chicago where offices of
any description could be secured, let
alone Offices that are as modern and
up to date as should be found in q
city Of the size of East Chicago.
one OF the prominent dentists has
q little room in the rear OF drug
store in which he is not even provided
with running water and he claims that
his business has fallen off 20 per cent.
because Of the lack Of proper quarters.
The doctors and lawyers are also in
the same fix and the office rooms that
they are compelled to put up with are
a disgrace TO the professions. one of
the professional men of the city said
yesterday that the first man to erect
the first modern Office building in East
Chicago would get the cream of the
tenants and they would all be willing
to take long time leases.
East Chicago is growing but all of
the growth is in the residence dis
tricts and the business portion of the
city is not keeping pace with the rest
of it. There have been several an
ncuncements to the effect that new
business blocks were to be erected
but nothing seems to materialize and
the people are becoming skepticaL.
In the meantime the professional
men of the city are getting along as
best they can and are looking almost
hopeIessly into the future. Many OF
them are at a loss to know why some
enterprising man does not put up a
good office and store building as il
would attract the best of tenants and
would be a good paying Investment.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-08
MUCH WANTED
BANDIT CAUGHT.
Continued from page one.)

exhibited a large bank roll although he
had no visible means Of employment.
The fact that his money consisted OF
many one dollar bills led those who saw
him TO believe that he might have been
responsible for the theft of the $3.50
stolen from the. receiver of the General
Electric company which amount con-
sisted of that denomination.
The police had no dihculty in locat-
ing the man described, who when he
saw that he was about TO be appre-
hended fred at the approaching sleuths
and attempted to make a getaway.
Block after block they chased the fugi-
tive and were assisted by officers Bart
ed and McShane who soon Joined the
chase The run severely tested the
speed and the hurdling ability of those
in pursuit but they soon proved TO be
his master in that game. After an
exchange of five or six shots in which
no damage was done. the man was cor
nered in the basement of a house and
even then refused TO give up the fight
He blocked the basement door and ran
into another room where he dehed the
officers to enter. They soon succeeded
in breaking down the barrier, however.
and were about TO rush upon him when
they noticed him about to climb out of
a basement window and trapped him
then and there.
He was taken to the station where he
refused TO talk when questioned as TO
his identity The man is d surly look
ing tough and gives every appearance
of being the criminal he is accredited
with being. He is said TO be response
BILE for hundreds of robberies and hold
up jobs throughout the city and has
been a man eagerly sought for for many
months When informed of the capture
Chief Shippy cOmplimented the men for
their good work in capturing the Grim
inaI as it is thought that it will tend to
check the depreciation of the gang OF
which he has been the leader.
The latest job performed by WaseliE
and his gang was the robbery of the
offices of the General Electric company
and he is known to have had a hand il
the Iooting of the safe of the cal
barns from which he secured the one
dollar bills.
Captain Dorman will place q specia
guard over the captive to prevent a de
| livery by his gang. They are among
the most desperate in the business anC
| great precaution will be used in watch
ing any such action, which might b.
attempted.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-08
ST. George and the DRAGON.

Other nations besides England have
fought under the banner Of st. George,
and other knightly orders as we'll as
that Of the Garter have been instituted
in his honor. He was the guardian saint
of Sicily, Aragon, Valencia, Genoa, NAL
to and Barcelona; a Venetian order Of
St George was created in 1900 a
Spanish in 1917, an Austrian in 1870 q
Genoese in 1472 and Roman in 1892
More modern orders bearing his name
are those of Bavaria Q729), Russia
Q76D and Hanover $3.50. The device
of st. George Staying the dragon forms
part of the arms of the car and ap-
pears on several Russian coins. The
conjecture that this was owing to the
presentation of the Garter by Eliza
beth to Ivan Vassilievitch has no foun-
dalton in fact, for Chancellor, the first
outspoken Englishman to visit Russia,
speaks of a dispatch sent in 1904 from
Ivan Vassilievitch to Queen Mary, the
seal of which was much like the
broad seal of England, having on the
one side the image of a man on horse
back In complete harness fighting with
q dragon. London Chronicle.