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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
the PARDON BOARD.

| The Des Moines Capital is not only
grieved, but to some degree incensed,
over the selection Of board of par
| dons by Governor Cummins. Especi-
ally in the case OF Hon. p. A. Smith,
of Scranton. is the Capital concerned,
and can see none except purely po-
litical reasons for the appointment. 1t
complains that all the men selected
have favored the progressive side of
the contention among Iowa republic
ans and this in itself seems to offer
reasons plenty as blackberries why
none of them should be appointed.
I The Capital does not openly Dues
p. A. Smith. 1t would seem that some
explana ton of its attitude in this par
ticular case would not be amiss. So
I far as Mr. Smiths capahility and
high sense of honesty is concerned no
one who knows the man will sincerely
question either. He served in the
legislature and went home to the peo-
pie Of Greene county unafraid. He has
been supporter of the progressive
policies and of Governor Cummins, but
1t is within the reach of short mem
DRY when the Capital and, its editor
We're the leaders of this movement.
aud readers of the litera ture of the last
state campaign will recall that some of
the strongest arguments and asser-
tions made by the progressives were
quotations from the files of the Des
Moines Capital and written by its tall
.ented editor.
The trouble with Smith is his I'M
compromising stand against looting Of
the state by any state officer. He has
been one of the foremost to protest
against peaceable possession by the
state binder OF sums which Smith be-
lieved to have been secured irregularly
and Illegally. Mr.. Young, editor of the
Capital, was the state binder who has
been charged with and prosecuted for
having the money to which he is not
entitled. Mr.. Smith has insstently de-
manded that it be disgorged, hence the
Capitals complaint
The board of pardons has been wise
.ly selected, and no man of its person
mel is more capable or will act with
more honesty and to the approval OF
the citizenship of the state, than P. A.
Smith, of Scranton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

license permitted to the post card
should meet with stern and immedi''
ate repression. The suggestive card
should be barred and burned at the
receiving office, and we should have
a postal ruling defining as well as may
be the legitimate field of the post
cards.
Too many American cards axe like
the one that brought the young stu
dent before the grand jury. They
should be put out of circulation. 1t is
too much to ask father to travel q
thousand miles or more to kick a fool.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
SHALL WASHINGTON VOTE?

Thee man who bets in presidential
elections that he can name a city
where the republican candidate will
not receive a single vote is likely to
lose his graft. The $4,000 people of
the District of Columbia are stirring
themselves to secure the right of fran
chise, and a bill will be submitted to
the Sixtieth congress asking it to con-
fer the privilege to vote upon those
within the district.
I 1t was the idea of the founders that
all within the seat of government
would be practically transients, with
actual interests and actual domiciles
outside the district DISTINGUISHED. 1t
is not likely that they looked forward
to magnificent city with a trade of
its own, and a state within a state
that should number a third of a mill
lion people. II is estimated that the
district has a stable population of
nearly quarter million, not counting
United States senator's, and these are
asking why they should not rebel
against taxation without representa-
ton as did their forefathers.
Many things stand in the way
Washington is full of colored people, to
whom the southern members are not
inclined to offer suffrage. 1t is crowd
ed with office seekers. office holders
and office servers. 1t would be an easy
vote to figure by self interest," but the
sense of fair play and equal rights
argues for the restoration of the fran
chise to the partially expatriated
patriots of the District of Columbia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Rebuke From the Jury Box.
/Dz.tN,, uornIrJ

+, From time immemorial the foreman
has been expected to monopolize all the
talk coming from a jury and the i'm
preston given to him is that the less
said by him the. better. In a New
York murder trial, however, all tradi-
tions have been violated by Juror No.
8. who arose and proceeded to rebuke
the opposing lawyers for ! injecting
witty abuse of one another into pro-
ceedings that should be, marked by
dignity and seriousness The Lawyers
grinned and the court mildly requested
that the admonition be needed. Juror
No. 8 is a reformer ahead of, his time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Topics Of the Times

1t is not likely that Jim Hills re.
trement was to distance beyond ca:
shot
Nature just switched part of June
into the beginning of April
That Mr. Cortelyou got the money
everybody knew long ago, but there
seems to be an awakened intereset az
TO where he got it.
If Ruef Is convicted he should be
sent to the state of Pennsylvania for
a ten-year term.
Mr.. Harrimans desire TO be. senate,
was simply the ambition of an i'm
nlensely wealthy man to round out his
career according to present day logic
1t is most remarkable succession
of condolences that big railroad strikes
come so often when it is necessary tc
impress the public with the necessity
of railroads and when the railroads
feel the need of more sympathetic re-
lations with the public.
Mr.. Hearst will carry more bach; te.
New York than he brought TO Chi
cago. Besides Brisbane and the car
toonist, he will get home with some
thing like carload of assorted lem
ons.
Mrs. Bradley attributes her killing
of Senator Brown to mental explo-
sion Here is another case where the
brainstorm seems to have struck the
right man.
Walter Wellman is satisfied with
the arrangements for his trip to the
north pole. So is everyone else if IL
will keep him away during the next
presidential campaign.
Nebraska's new law making it IL
legal for brewers to own saloons might
be enacted with profit by the Iowa
legislature.
g
II an automobile railroad built
with cement track, is a sue
cess for interurban service, and can
be built for $4,000 per mile equipped
for Operation, why not talk the mat
ter over with Grundy Center?
A want ad for man to test seed
corn according to the Holden method
is one evidence of the up to- dateness
OF the day
Seeding will be done this week and
Aplowing will follow, but don't forget
the road drag. One hours work will
cause a highway to speak to every
passer-by aud tell him what a good
farmer the adjoining resident is.
1t is not unlikely that Hartman did
have something to do with raising
campaign funds, and since his con-
fession of $4,000 to the republican
committee we would like to know how
much he gave to the democratic COM
mittee in the same campaign.
The corporations of Iowa would
volunteer to pay that license fee tax
If the legislature would establish joint
freight rates and provide for the res
vision OF interstate rates which now
discriminate against manufacturing in
Iowa. A s25 fee looks small beside
a $1,000 tax in discriminating freight
rates.
New town councils are organized
now in a hundred places. The first
thing to do will be to clean up the
streets, the alleys and the lawns, ex-
anime into sanitary conditions of
wells and milk supplies Let the new
sidewalks rest until the public health
is Ssafely guarded. If an impure or
inadequate water supply is present,
make its reform the paramount issue.
Spare no cost on a water supply I'M
Z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Cheap Rate. 10 the Pacific Coast.

Commencing March 1 and continu-
ing until April 80 the Iowa Central
railway will have on sale reduced one
way tickets to Arizona California, Ore
gon, Washington. British Columbia
Utah, Montana, Idaho and Old Mexico
Rates SIS below regular fare. On We'd
nesdays thru tourist cars to Los An
ge,es and San Francisco are run via
Kansas City and tho popular Santa
Fe System.
Call on agents for particulars, or adj
dress, A. B. Cults G. p. and T. A.
Minneapolis. MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Secrets Of Finance.

philadelphia Ledger)
The railroad magl1ate on the stand
plainly was irritated.
Hold on, gentlemen" he exclaimed.
"You are asking about my methods as
tho YOU intended to go into the bunko
business yourselves, and have plenty
of rivals already"
But they assured him that curiosity
was, their only motive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

that municipal taxes on terminals shall
be paid where the terminals are stu
ated. If Iowa should pass such a law,
it would add good many thousands OF
dollars to the annual income .,f Sioux
City. And the city is in a position to-
appreciate any help on taxes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

illinois republicans may be for Cam
on those OF New York for Root; Ohio
or Taft: Wisconsin for La Toilette.
tut for whom are the progressives of
OVAL" asks the Davenport Democrat
And will the standpatters accept the
hoice and make it their own? Here is
where the collision is likely to occur
1T can not be said of the county Of
nat 1t Is difficult to fill their places"
deserves the Carroll Herald Good
Material abounds whenever there is a
vacancy to FILL"
Here's hoping the new primary law
will give UP clean politics. says the
Rockwell City Advocate.
The Nevada Representative thinks
Senator Warren would be an excellent
IAN in congress; but lin the present
ttaation in this district he can only
ope to be nominated thru the active
assistance of Governor Cummins We
ave no doubt that the governor would
Ike to have a change in the repres en-
ationsof this district in congress; but
when the takes up the fight of any can
iidate for that place, he will-unless
re do him injustice-which we never
mean to do--want very different sort
,f candidate from what Senator War
en- is here represented to be-"
The Sioux City Journal says '"The
president proposes that hereafter rail-
ways shall be allowed to issue stocks
.and bonds only after they have shown
hat the proceeds are NEEDED for legiti-
nate use. in the business. This is not
IN alarming suggestion. 1t will pro-
ect investors and 1t should not injure
my legitimate Improvement. 1t is
eair presumption that this as as far as
he president has got in his plans for
uture railway legislation and that
even in regard to this the details have
not been worked out"
"By defeating the bulk sales bill the
Iowa legislature has legalized the bust
ness of buying something on credit.
selling it in the night time and maxi
ing way with the proceeds" asserts the
Cedar Rapids Republican.
"The railroads have never in their
history shown as much net profit as
they have since the Elkins anti-rebate
law went into effect. and they will
make more net profit during the year
1907 than they ever made in any one
year prior to the passage of that act,''
points out the Register and Leader.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

ill it is pure and sufficient Pave
ments are a good investment, but wa
ter supplies determine doctor bills, life
and death to residents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Panic Averted

In case of constipation, peritonitis.
etc, panic is averted by curing your
self with Dr. Kings New Life Pills 25c.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
A HOME MINE.


The Iowa legislature has amended
the drainage law SO that 1t is more
available for practical operations in
river counties like Des Moines. There
Is now opportunity to redeem the
overflow lands and make them richly
productive. 1t is to he hoped the sup
ervisors of Des Moines county will
take prompt action for the drainage
of the low lands under the amended
law. The law is equitable in its sys-
tenn of levying the taxes. and when car
ried into effect will enhance the value
of the land and greatly increase the
annual yield of farm products. In
other words there is a large amount
of tangible wealth in the undeveloped
land of Des Moines county. 1t is bet
ter than mining stocks and other
speculative ventures, and the beauty
of it is that 1t keeps investment mon
ey at home, adds to the total wealth Of
the county and enlarges the annual pro-
duction. It is an inexha,lstible mine,
one which can be dug perpetually and
always with profit. The sooner this
mine is opened and the gathering Of
it's treasurers begun, the better for
the community and the lucky land
owners.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

To the Scranton Journal Lieutenant
Governor Garst seems to be in the lead
lmong those prominently mentioned as
he next republican candidate for gov
,ri1or"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
iowa OPINIONS AND NOTES.

But legitimate business interests
have had poor chance in this legis-
lature-the politician and the agitator
and the corporation batter have been
supreme" is the blanket complaint OF
the Cedar Rapids Republican!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

With Roosevelt out of the running
5liere seems" to the Upton Advertiser,
TO be little doubt but that Iowa senti
nent is almost unanimous for Taft"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Bank
Money Orders

4 We have been selected by the
American Bankers Association to
guarantee their new Bank Money
Orders, and are the only Company
4 authorized to furnish such guaranty.
These orders are the newest con.
venience in sending money. Instead
Of going to the Post or Express
Office. apply for money orders to
! bunk that is member Of the
Association
Gu, selection for this responsible
duty is further evidence Of the
preference accorded our suretyship
by the leading fnanciers Of the
y country.
Whatever form Of guarantee OF
surety you desire, apply to the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
.Frenzied With F,sar

are many who develop lung trouble.
Dr. Kings New Discovery will cure
them. Guaranteed. soc and $1.00. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05

1T can not be said Of the county Of
Gers. as it is of the country teachers,
nat 1t is difficult to fill their places"
deserves the Carroll Herald. Good
Material ahounds whenever there is a
vacancy to FILL"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
pooeINe OF OHIO TAX LAWS
Discovered BY state offieiaIs-Foreisn
Corporations Rounded Up.

Columbus, O.-Foreign corporations
that have qualified with the depart
ment of state to do business in Ohio,
and have been making false returns
under the Willis law relative to the
amount of property located in the
state, are to be thoroughly investi-
gated by Special Counsel Medaris, of
the attorney generals Office, and will
have to pay the full tax in accordance
with the true value of their holdings.
Indeed, Mr.. Medaris has discovered
that several of these concerns were
doing a little lodging and has made
them toe the mark.
Attorney General Ellis. it is said, in
an accidental manner discovered some
months ago that a certain corporation
that was granted charter in another
state, and was qualified to do business
in Ohio, owned more property in the
state than it was returning in its an
nual statement, and paying the tax
thereon. He set about an investiga-
ton, and others were found to be do
ing the same. Eight companies, when
the evidence was placed before them,
were compelled to pay into the state
treasury an amount aggregating about
S27 900 When all are rounded up, 1t
Il is understood, the state will be con-
siderably enriched, and the amounts
taxed against them will remain per-
manent
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
EMERSON ESCAPES ONE CHARGE.
Jury Aequits Former Supreme Clerk
Other Counts To Be Pressed.

Columbus, O.-Lawson E. Emerson,
former clerk Of the supreme court,
was declared not guilty of having en-
bezzled 1866 when in office. The trial
lasted but day. Five witnesses were
examined, and 1t took the jury slight
ly more than an hour to arrive at
verdict There are two other indict-
ments pending on similar charges, and
Prosecuting Attorney Karl Webber
states that he will bring them to trial
as soon as possible.
Emerson was forced to resign by
the supreme court because Of his ir-
regularities in making his quarterly
reports, and, subsequently, an investi-
cation was made by the grand jury
and true bills returned against him for
embeZzlement. He returned every
cent charged against him by the bu-
reau of public accounting, and this, it
is said, had much to do with the ac-
tion of the jury. The court had
charged that it must be proved that
he had converted the money to his
own use, but that he had paid back the
money did not atone for the alleged
crime. After it had been out for
about an hour the jury requested fur
ther instructions on these points, but
Judge Dillon merely reiterated his re-
marks. Emerson's home Is at st.
ClairsYille.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
TWO BIG QUESTIONS
;nE "MoRAL OBLIGATION" AND
"DoES 1T PAY7"
iHOULD BE CONSIDERED
In Honest Answer to These VIII
Keep the Trade with the
Home Merchant Every
Time.

Copyrighted, 1906, by Alfred c. Clark)
When tNe thrifty person or his wife
its down for the first time-or any
ime-with the mail order catalogue
md its temptations, there are two,
md only two, points to be taken into
consideration.
One of these is moral obligation,
md the chances are that that will be
dismissed as sentimental nonsense.
The other is-Will it pay? and to
hat the thrifty person will be in
lined to interpret an answer from the
)rices quoted in black-faced figures in
he catalogue.
Neither of these questions should
,e lightly dismissed. Moral obliga-
ion is not sentimental nonsense, and
)lack-faced figures sometimes lie.
The duty a man owes to his own
community and his obligation to trade
1t home are so often reiterated in the
country press that, possibly like some
If the preaching, it has a tendency
o harden the hearts of the sinners.
Nevertheless, the principle is true as
gospel.
What has your neighboring town
given you, Mr.. Farmer? A market for
rour produce. What has made 25 to
20 per cent. of the present value of
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
MISSING WILL
OF the Millionaire May Mean Poor Rel,
atives' Salvation.

Marion O.-District Attorney Short,
of Ontario county, New York, left here
with draft for 100000. which has ac-
cumulated in a local bank in the set
tlement of mortgages and notes held
by the estate of the late Josephus
Goodenow, millionaire stockman. Short
and attorneys representing the heirs
took dispositions here in regard to the
two wills made by Goodenow in this
city. The first will had been destroy
ed, and the second, executed in 1905,
is missing.
As the result of the mysterious dis
appearance Of the second will the vast
estate, instead of being inherited by
six persons, will be distributed. it is
said, among all of his poor relations,
of whom there are many in Ohio.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

the long journey arould the horn,
their departure being made the occa-
sion for solemn celebrations in New
England. They arrived at the end of
March, to learn that, by dramatic
coincidence, unparalleled in religious
history, the idols had been burned, the
affairs and the deadly taboo had been
abolished, and that conditions were
most extraordinarily ripe fer mission.
ary effort.
The Romance Of the South Seas.
Things had been in bad way in
the Hawaiian islands. Civil war had
for centuries been the rule, until
Kamehameha the Great, a sort of
dusly Napoleon, had consolidated the
islands under one :slle Vice at it's
worst was common and open. Two
thirds of all the children born, it is
estimated, were killed in infancy and
aged parents were often buried alive.
Human sacrifice was an essential part
of the religious system. Stealing was
fine art; even kings and chiefs kept
servants for the express purpose of
committing theft. Gambling went on
by wholesale. When food was plenti.
full, the native would gorge himself
six or seven times day, even. rising
in the night to eat. At other times he
would eat but once day, or go hun
CRY altogether. Science they had
none; no written language, nor the
least conception of any mode of COM
municating thought but by oral
speech"
Government was oppressive; lands,
products and occupants all belonged to
the chiefs and the king. A system Of
taboo safeguarded the power of these;
1t was taboo and death for a common
man to let his shadow fall upon a
chief, or to stand when the kings
bathing water was carried by or his
name mentioned in song. 1t was taboo
for woman to eat with her husband.
1t was taboo and death for man to
enter his canoe on any day named as
sacred by the priest. So ran the end
less system of expressions, despite
which the race continued hardy and
numerous, and against which the ma.
tion arose while the missionary ship
Thaddeus was en- route to the islands.
| Ripe TO: a new religion, having
spurned the old, the natives gave eager
welcome to the missionaries. The
king and the chiefs were the first
pupils, reversing the common expert.
ence, which is that Christianity works
from the bottom upward. Within
three months the king is said to have
been able to read English. The New
England devotion to education spurred
the missionaries on, so that within
two years the native speech had been
reduced to writing and a spelling book
printed in 1t. Within tour years the
chiefs formally agreed to recognize the
Christian Sabbath. and to adopt the
1 Ten Commandments as the basis oi
! government. They also prohibited the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

tage. And this brings us 10 the sec
ond point in the argument-the para.
mount question in this commercial
age-"Will it pay?
By most people an affirmative an
swer to that question is accepted as
tae call of duty. AS matter of fact,
"Will it pay?" is a good test to apply
to any project or proposition. There
are commercial, as well as political,
demagogues, and the man who is ap'
pealed to on the score Of patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that Question-"Will ii
pay?"-to his own best judgment
Provided always, that he goes to the
very bottom of it.
1 believe that every man ought to
know why he does so and so. Toe
many of us travel in ruts. We get the
habit of buying certain goods or trad
ing at certain places when We might
do better by changing. This will ap
ply sometimes to people who trade al
home as well as to those who buy
abroad. 1t is always well to investi
gate. l have known people to make
expensive trips to the city to buy
goods that the village merchant wOult
have sold them for less money. They
hadn't taken the trouble to investi
gate.
What are the relative advantages o.
buying at the local store and ordering
from a catalogue house? Advantages
understand, that figure in the ques
tion, will it pay?" Don't get ava!
from that question. 1t certainly il
very comfortable to sit down by you
own fireside and select dress patterl
or sulky plow from printed des
cription and a picture of the article
much more comfortable, in fact, thai
hitching up and driving to town on
raw day.
A consideration more important
| perhaps. is that the printed price Il