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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
NOTHING BUT ANARCHY.
Cedar Rapids Republican,


1t reports are correct the people at
Davenport paraded the streets the
other might and in point of numbers
made an imposing procession, in pro-
test against the proposed enforcement
of law in that town 1'ransparencies
were carried which proclaimed Sane
laws we uphold. but insane restlc-
tfons we will fight" We do not know
just what the people of Davenport
would call sane" liquor law Pre-
sumably it would be one that would
impose practically no restrictions
whatever. They are evidently of the
opinion that the mulct law. which re-
quires saloons to close al 10 O'clock
also on Sunday and on holidays is an
insane proposition They declare their
intention of fighting it,
Now, if the people of Davenport
meant by this declaration that they
propose to agitate for its repeal and
for the substitution of something more
to their liking, they would be wholly
within the rights of good American
citizens, and while people might differ
from them in regard to these matters.
they would respect their opinion and
their attitude. But what the people Of
Davenport really mean is that they do
not intend to obey the laws. They ar
rogate to themselves the power to say
what laws are sane and what laws are
insane They say in effect we &C
knowledge no authority but our own
Fwills, when it comes to law.
1t would seem that the dullest minds
could comprehend the utter absurdity
of this proposition. If the regularly
constituted law making authority is
not to be recognized as an actual au-
thority. if the people of the several
communities in a state are to decide
for themselves what laws to obey and
what laws not to obey our whole sys-
TEN becomes a roaring farce. The peo-
ple of Davenport would probably hold
an indignation meeting and pass the
most fiery resolutions if the directors
and officers of their street railway
company, or their water company, for
example, should issue a proclamation
to the effect that they would obey
only such regulations imposed by law
as were in their opinion sane"
We have got to bring an end to this
sort of thing all over this country. We
have cot to recognize law as law
everywhere and obey it. or we shall be-
come a nation of anarchists. No mans
interests and no mans rights will be
safe. Obedience to law is an absolute
necessity everywhere. and in no place
could this be more true than in gov
eminent where the will of the people
is supposed to be supreme.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
is A FARMER A HAYSEED?

Is 1.-THE American farmer a hayseed
OF course not We all know that he
must be intelligent and up to date in
his business TO succeed We know that
he owns most all of the bank stock in
Iowa We know that he edhcates his
children, buys fine buggies for his
transportation and pianos and books
for his home Why then, do the car
toonists and humorists persist in the
old reference? Why was he ever
called a hayseed?
Just this, the farmer years ago denied
himself the comforts of living. He
dressed stingily and lived so primitively
that he excited the derision of people
in the towns AS cities grew in wealth
modern comforts grew in number and
city life itself grew so far away from
the severity of the old backwoods farm
life that the town would call the
countryman "hayseed,' Jake" and
laugh at his billy goat whiskers.
But, Of course, this contrast in condl-
tions does not exist in Iowa. Farm
homes in Marshall county can be found
by the hundreds which will equal the
best that has been built in the towns,
but there are many more hundreds
which could stand improving and it Is
here that the attention Of men is
called.
Mother has shaved away in the
little farm house all these years doing
double work. She has raised a family
and kept house. The past years have
been prosperous. Father can't help
but feel that he has made the money
and his desire is to buy more land.
But mother is full partner. She
wants better home, a. more modern
house. She wants to build. She wants
every room kept warm in winter by the
use of a furnace. This comfort can be
put in almost any farm house new or
Olu -lOF tllS piiSS VI q i'ASt N'e's's7 49, -
horse and it as easy 10 operate as a
base burner. She wants fresh paint
and a lawn from which will be eNclud-
ed an classes of livestock. She can see
that the biggest half of her life has
been spent and she wants to enjoy what
she and father" have earned before it
is yet too late. She knows that the
only difference between her folks and
the folks VINO live in town is the man
ner in which they live. Before taking
that trip in search of more land it will
be we'll to listen to what mother
wants She is usually right by intu-
ition. The farmer at fifty needs more
comfort than he does more land. At
sixty he begins to grow sad every time
he hears of the death of his boyhood
friends and there is only ten years be-
tween More fine farm homes and less
land will bury the old stigma of hay
seed so deep that even comic supple
ment will never resurrect it. They
will make mother" feel that her years
of toll have not been in vain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
Iowa Newspapers
Observation-Disclosures
Early. But unafraid.
(Grinnell Register.)

The Register viii support A. 3.
Cummins for the United States senate.
Tho the time of the primary is still
far distant, i, is becoming that every
newspaper should inform it's readers
as to its alignment.
In taking this position the Register
does not wish to be understood as
taking any action derogatory to Sena-
tor Allison. In it's opinion, the question
is purely one of expediency. 1t is a
question of who can best serve his
state in the highest house Of congress
and can best promote the ideas for
which(his state stands.
Senator Allison has been an able and
conservative representative of the
state turnout a long term of years He
has won honor and brought honor
upon Iowa.
But is that any reason why the
claim of younger and more vigorous
man should not be noticed?
Is a long experience in senatorial
precedent and custom and all the de-
vious byways by which that body does
business to be weighed against the
progressive ideas and the vital force
which the present governor of Iowa
would bring to the position?
1t has been claimed that by the time
Governor Cummins has attained to a
position of any Importance in the sem.
ate he would be as old as Allison. 1t
has not been SO with Senator LaFol-
iette. He has broken his way thru the
mysteries of red tape and formality
and has forced the senate to listen to
him. So. we are confident, it would be
with Cummins.
Sentiment does not enter into the
question upon which the voters of
Iowa are called upon to express their
opinions at the primaries. Many may
cast their votes for Cummins while en-
tertaining all feeling of respect and
reverence for Allison.
Let the contest be waged with fair
ness. if at all. Such expressions as
kicking Allison into his grave" are not
fit campaign arguments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
TAFT,s PLATFORM.

No complaint that Secretary Taft
has failed to make his position plain
is likely to be given much attention by
those who read the secretary's speech
made at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. 1t
is plain ITO the point of bluntness. The
wayfaring voter tho millionaire or a
section hand need not err therein. On
the eve of departure Mr.. Taft has given
the country to understand definitely the
grounds upon which he would claim a
nomination and what it may expect if
he shall be made president.
He talks like a progressive republic
can from west of the Mississippi river.
Doubtless, to those republican news
papers and leaders who have been busy
deprecating the newly awakened ten
dency of western states toward releiv-
ing the corporations Of the burden Of
legislation and general management of
state affairs, he will appear as a rail
road batter" for Secy. Taft would ex-
tend the rate law and even speaks adj
verseIy of the Elkins law, cited at pres
ent by standpatters as the salvation Of
the shipper and the hope of the coun-
try According to the secretary the
effect of the Elkins act is to save rebate
manipulators from Jail and he approves
the provision of the rate law that car
ries the Jail penalty.
Mr.. Taft is willing to keep on trying.
If the present rate law lacks in some
ways he surmises that we shall dis
cover such weaknesses and proceed to
strengthen the law by new amend
ments. The power to classify mer-
the rates at which it shall be carried
is one of the amendments that occur
to the secretary as properly within
the functions of the interstate commits
sion. He has a little plan in mind
whereby overca pitalization of railroads
and the robbery of investors may be
checked and prevented. A railroad
company engaged in interstate COM
merce should not be permitted, he
says, to issue stock or bonds and put
them on sale in the market except after
certificate by the interstate commerce
commission that the securities are is
sued with the approval of the commits
sion for a legitimate railroad purpose
and argues the railroads that are hon
estly conducted would accept the GER
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

one in the markets of the world and
only railway stock manipulatois who
look to the floating watered securities
as their best source of profit would
have reason to complain, He would
make it Illegal for one interstate line
to acquire stock in another and COM
peting line and for the same officers
to manage lines that naturally should
be competitors.
Another stand of the secretary was
doubtless made without due consider
as being very close to Secretary Taft
and the president, namely, one Col.
Lafayette Young of Iowa and the fac
ton whereof the colonel is a snorting
warhorse Taft is a tariff ripper"
Had he been in Iowa last year no epi-
tibet short of assistant democrat"
would have fitted him in the columns of
standpat papers. Worse still, he con-
fesses that he has long been for inlme-
diate revision OF the tariff. Like every
other republican he is content perforce
to wait until the next presidential
campaign has been fought out but he
insists that ut would be most ''unwise
and unsafe" for the republican party
to fail to pledge immediate revision in
its next national platform. Secretary
Taft. it is easy to see, like 1.-THE majority
Of his party is well convinced that a
wiser and safer plan would have been
to go to the country With revision ac-
complished than with promise but is
willing 10 do the next best thing
His speech is we'll worth careful
reading and close consideration. 1t not
only indicates what he is ready to adj
vance as the reasons for his candidacy
but may justly and confidently be taken
as having the approval and instigaion
of the president, 1t is so clearly in
line with the policies and contentious
of the progressive republicans of Iowa
and the middle west That II seutles
many things that have been obscured
by dust throwing and tongue lashing
1t shows very plainly that in Iowa the
secretary and his distinguished mentor
and supporter would have been and
would still be staunch Cummins repub-
LEANS in Wisconsin With La Toilette
and behind Hoch in Nebraska.
Taft's platform has thus been written
ny Taft 1t is likely the social oblisa-
tions of that Philippine trip will still
hold the Des ,Moines Capital for Taft?
Honestly, now, with this kind of a plat
form how would LATE Young, jos
Blythe and others who have fought
tooth and nail the Taft principles In
Iowa look at the head of a Taft dele
CATION? How long would such a dele
cation stand for Taft under fire?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
For an Impaired Annette

To improve the appetite and
strengthen the digestion try few
doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Mr.. J III. Seitz, of De-
troit Mich, says. They restored my
appetite when impaired relieved me of
a bloated feeling and caused a pleasant
and satisfactory movement of the bow
els Price, % cents. Samples free.
All druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
Topics Of the Times

Bantam or no bantam as a Colorado
governor sneers at him Judge Lindsay
will continue TO be loved and believed
by the public because he is engaged in
helping others, because he makes war
upon graft.
Jim Hill has written q letter to a
| C;rinnell lumberman explaining that
rise of 70 cents per hundred pounds
in the freight rate on western lumber
is made because lumber is selling for
more now and will Stand the rise.
The millionaire senator Guggenheim
unwittingly offended the presidents of
the United States senate. In an inter
view abroad he tells foreigners that
There is grave danger of life service
for Roosevelt in the White House.
Their he pictures the terrors of such a
revolution.
New Jersey people are complaining
about a ssS.oo0.ooo merger of all their
trolley lines but Iowa people would be
pleased at the prospect OF even one
thirty eighth part of it,
Nav" said Bungstarter, the bar
keep Nav, DO, / don't know much
about music but can keep cases on
the number of beats to bar"
II is one thing for a Judge to fine the
Standard nearly $30.OOo,ooO and an
d.her to land his money.
The peace makers at The Hague say
in effect that while you may drive q
steel bullet thru Your opponent from
behind a breastwork and kill him with
a siNteen-inch gun from ship or bat
terry you positively must not use the
reasonably safe and certainly effective
fashion of dropping dynamite on him
from a balloon. The balloon plan is
brutal messy and undignified anyway.
system of city government that
ON Sunday and lets all kinds of deviltry
flourish Shru the week appears to be
somewhat shy of true piety.
A machine, called the tesserograph.
for doing away with the necessity for
printing in advance the thousands or
various kinds of railway tickets is de-
scribed in The American Machinist
(New York;. The device, which is the
invention of Rodent T. Piscicelf. of
Florence, also automatically registers
the amounts cashed. Says the paper
Just named: Each ticket is printed
separately by machine from a slip of
thick paper, all the necessary particu-
lars such as station names. date. price.
class, etc, being inserted, and on a sec
ond paper slip within the machine is
printed. as check, a duplicate of the
ticket sold. The money values of the
tickets issued are totalized according
to classes and series. a machine con-
strlcted for the Naples-Rome line can
print and sregister 400 different kinds OF
tickets The various mechanisms are
interlocked together. and no tickets can
be issued until the inspector i'm charge,
upon opening the office in the early
morning, has freed the machine and
brought all the totals back to zero"
Suburban Host (to unexpected sup
per guesD-Now, then. Miss Hobson.
Will you have little of this rabbit pie
or er--er-or Cooking round and dis
covering there is no other dish)-or
not ?"-The Tattler.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
A Kind word For Railroads.

$50 you don't share the general IN
dignation toward the railwaysT
NO answered Farmer Corntossei,
81 have always felt that locomotive
was entitled to great deal OF eredit
for sticking to the track, instead OIL
snorting up and down the country
roads like an automobile. Washing
ton Star. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

powerful and useful member of the
upper house and that before he had
served term concludes the Sac
paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
The Future,

The good man hopes there is fu-
ture life. The bad man fears there
may be one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

The Spirit Lake Beacon hopes Ben
Tillman is making a farewell tour
among the Iowa chautauquas. There
is limit to the moral endurance of
even mild hammered old Iowa." adds
the Beacon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
Women as Well as Men Are Madb
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessensambition; beauty,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out Of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so, prevalent
that it is not unconl-
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. If the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

After man wades thru ten or a
dozen pages OF a Chicago paper to find
something that ought to be there and
ISM and opens an Iowa paper and
mas what he wants he is apt to con-
clude that the windy city newspapers
are behind the procession, despite
their blanket sheet proportions, re-
marks the Parkersburg Eclipse.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

THE man who starts out to see
life usually looks on at night, by the
illusory artificial light" observes the
Valley Junction Express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

You thought of making a change If
You are not getting satisfactory laun-
dry service The Meeker Laundry is
DESTROYS at all times to add new GUS
toners to its already large number of
satisfied ones. Just give us a trial
and see how well we can please you
with out work. The Meeker Laundry
Cd. The slow and careful laundry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

child urinates too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
massage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diff
Gully is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment OF
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition OF
The kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made nliser.
4 abl,, with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
T,a. .uild and the immediate effect OF
S vanp-Root is soon realized. It is sold
hy druggists, in fifty fE~
cent and one-dollar
size bottles You may
have sample bottle $3.50 @EG
by mail free, also Home of svamp.Roos.
D lrhphlet telling all about Swamp-Root,
including many of the thousands of testi-
nonial letters received from sufferers
3 ...fed. In writing DR.. Kil1ner & Co.,
Birtgharnton, N. y, be sure and mention
tlli. paper. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp Root,
Or. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad.
dress, Binghanton, N. Y, on every
hottie.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

The Clarion Clipper insists the pri-
mary law was passed in order ito all
low the people to say whom they want
to be their representatives in the var
ious positions affected by the provis-
ions of the law. Now if a ma jority of
the republicans want Governor Cum
minis to be their representative in the
United States senate, their ballots will
say so. # they want somebody else.
their ballots will talk that way. Where
does the kick come in?"
To the Sabula Gazette 'Ex-Con-
gresham John T. Lacey appears to
be waiting very patiently to see if
Senator Allison is to be a candidate
to succeed himself in the United States
come into the field with a rush against
Governor Cummins. In case Allison de-
cides to try for the senatorship again.
Lacey will be among the aspirants for
tie governorship. At present the stand
patters appear to have three available
candidates. Carroll, at present auditor
OF state; Palmer present railroad COM
missioner, and Lacey. The Cummins
forces have mentioned but two men
Lieutenant Governor Garst and Editor
Funk. of Spirit Lake. There will be
no rivalry between the two latter how
ever. as Garst will be conceded the
Cummins support if he wants it," pre-
diets the Gazette.
Noting that the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican thinks that Senator Dolliyer
ought at once and forever abandon
the chautauqua platform, the Traer
Star-Clipper would like to know why?"
The Star-Clipper believes "as long as
1illlnan and some others are on the
carpet. it is we'll enough to have a
few like Dolliver and LaFolette to
show the people that decency and
sane craftsmanship still survive"
1t has long been the opinion of the
Sac sun that "the New York senator
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

1t has long been the opinion of the
sac sun that "Uhe New York senator
ship is the next office President Roose-
Welt should accept. He would make q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

Suburban Host (to unexpected sup
per guesD-Now, then. Miss Hobson,
VIII you have little of this rabbit pie
or er--er-or docking round and dis
covering there is no other dish)-
not ?"-The Tattler.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20

by druggists, in fifty
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
: - .l c.. alec a
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-14
A Handsome Window.

one Of the handsomcst holiday dis
play windows In the city Is that Of
the shoe department ct /. C. Smith
which was arranged by Miss Maudr
Shut. and to whom credit Is due II
is one of the most original designs,
embracing u Fireplace, In which Is
noticed the oak logs Hanging around
this fire place are number of stock.
mgs we'll filled with the things which
Santa Claus brings and each stocking
bears a uamC, The window Is attract
lively decorated with shoes Of all kinds
and sizes. and altogether the display
Is a most novel one, attracting great
deal OF attention, Miss SHUTS friends
have congratulated her upon the 'd'a
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-14
Meeting Of Hospital Association.

A very important meeting of IN,
Woman's Hospital Aid Association OF
Gainesville will be held this (Satur
day. afternoon at . O'Clock, at the resi-
dcncc Of Mrs. b. T. Richards. Officers
will be elected for the ensuing year
and the whole work of the association
rcOrganizcd
All the members of the association
are earnestly requested to attend this
meeting, and all ladies not hitherto
Identified with 1t are urged to become
members, a good hospital is a bless
ing to city, and the relief OF needy
and suffering humanity Is a cause that
appeals to every womans heart by
order Of the president,
MRS. r. T. NJ BEATH, ScC.y.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-14
The King Stock Company.

Next Monday night the theater pa
irons Of Gainesville will have Il roper
tOire company Of unusual strength
with them, when The King Stock Com
pany, headed by Charles King, begins
three nights engagement at the
opera house,
The opeffing play, THE Shadow" is
one Of exceptionally strong situations;
full of pathos and humor. The cast
will be strong, and between acts
specialtes will be introduced by some
of the leading vaudeville artists.
Tuesday night, that beautiful story,
RIP Van Wrinkle" Wednesday, "Thc
Circus Girl"
The prices will be in the reach Of
all So and 80 cents.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-14
Mr. Jarvis from Tallahassee.

III. Jarvis has returned from Tai.
|tssee, where he has been in the
rest of the Gainesville Board of
Me relative to the proposed union
Con In this city,
~, Jarvis appeared before the Rail.
Ia Commission I'm behalf of the pro,
n and the people, and the Ipattcr
4 taken under adyiscmcnt, Tie
roads also had representatives be
& the commission ut this hearing,
a Mr. Jarvis was frank enough to
Nj that he did not believe the
{. neAs for union station IN Gaines
r. az this time were very encourag